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The season of 1893 may be fairly recorded as the most successful one the Brooklyn club had experienced since it entered the National League. Not that its team attained any special degree of success in the championship pennant race of the season, but that the financial results were the most satisfactory to the club of any since 1889. That the team did not attain the anticipated success in the championship campaign was due, not so much to any special weakness in the management of its field forces, or in the playing strength of the team itself, but rather to the one conspicuous fault which had characterized the club's government since it entered the professional arena; and that one fault was the mistaken liberality of the management in the condoning of drinking offenses in the club ranks. From the time that the Brooklyn club ended its first season with championship honors in a minor league organization, to the year it won the pennant of the American Association, it had been heavily handicapped by this conspicuous weakness. Time and again it would have won the pennant during the eighties but for drunkenness in its ranks. But in no year was the costly cause of defeat made more plainly apparent than in 1893, as the following glance at the season's campaign of the club will fully show. The closing day of the opening month of the season, in April, saw the Brooklyn club standing in the pennant race with the eastern clubs of Boston, New York and Philadelphia, and with the western clubs of Chicago and Cincinnati, with a percentage of victories for each of .500, Cleveland being in the race with a percentage of .1,000, and Pittsburgh at the tail end with .000. During the May campaign the Brooklyn club reached second position, with a percentage of victories on May 31st of .630 to Pittsburgh's .667, Boston standing at that time at .586, these being then the three leaders in the race. By the 12th of June Brooklyn held the leading position in the race, with a percentage of .622 to Boston's .615 and Pittsburgh's .595; the three clubs leading still at that date. Before the end of the June campaign, however, the inherent weakness of the club team—intemperate habits among the minority—began to develop itself, and the result was that by the end of the June campaign the club had fallen back to third place. During July the Richardson escapade took place, and by the end of that month the club had fallen to fifth position, and in August its rival, the New York club, superseded it, and before that month's