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Managers of the Hartford Dark Blues
This is a comprehensive list of managers for the Hartford Dark Blues organization. Win / loss statistics, winning percentage, position in division, and games behind the leader are also shown for each manager.
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"The Dark Blues were a team of firsts from pitcher Candy Cummings 'inventing' the curve ball, to Hartford's Morgan G. Bulkeley's appointment as first National League president, to the first doubleheader, no-hitter, triple play and the club's dubious honor as the first professional sports franchise to move to another city." - Dave Arcidiacono in Grace, Grit & Growling (1987)
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| Year |
Uniform # |
Manager(s) |
Wins |
Losses |
WP |
Finish |
GB |
| 1876 |
n/a
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Bob Ferguson
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47 |
21 |
.691 |
3rd |
6 |
| 1877 |
n/a
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31 |
27 |
.534 |
3rd |
10 |
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Hartford Dark Blues Managers & Finishes
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Did you know that the only manager of the Hartford Dark Blues, Bob Ferguson (1876 - 1877) had a highly ununusal nickname — Death to Flying Things?
The Hartford Dark Blues were a National Association team (1874 - 1875) before they became charter members of the National League in 1876. What happened to the Dark Blues?
The Dark Blues played their home games at the Hartford Baseball Grounds, a 2,000-seat stadium at the corner of Wyllys Street and Hendricxsen Avenue in the city's industrial south end, across the street from the Church of the Good Shepherd and only a few blocks from the Colt Factory... Unfortunately, the Hartford Grounds was located a mile away from the city's Union Station, a distance that must have deterred attendance." Source : The Connecticut League of History Organizations, Inc. (August 2001, Volume 54, Number 3), article entitled "Tales From the Great Refuge / A Regular Series on Connecticut History"
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