Newark Eurekas


Eureka Baseball Club of Newark
The Eureka team was part of the NABBP in the 1850s and 1860s. The Eureka Club first began playing other members of the NABBP in 1860. They played at a field at Ferry Street and Adams Street in the Ironbound.

Players*

NamePositionGPHands lostA ORunsA O
Harry Northrup1B6152-3152-3
Edward R. Pennington2B10292-9303-0
C. Van HoutonSS7273-6142-0
Charles Thomas3B8263-2141-6
R. DavidsonOF9242-6252-7
T. OliverOF8253-1162-0
J. CollinsOF10272-7242-4
G. RogersC8273-3172-1
J. LinenP10313-1222-2

Other players for the team in 1860 were H. Brientnall, A. Littlewood, E Benedict, P. Baldwin, E. Thomas, T. Price and R. Elsden. Brientnall played five games; Littlewood, three; Benedict, two; and the other four members played only in a single game during the season.
The Eurekas had the eleventh best win percentage and the eight most wins. They batted in the fifth most runs of any team at 213.
Newark only played one game against the Enterprise baseball club from Brooklyn and beat them 27-5.
Newark played only two games this season against ranked NABBP ballclubs. They lost to the Mutuals by one run and beat the Gothams by five runs.
The Eurekas had the tenth best win percentage and the tenth most wins in the league, despite having the fifth lowest number of runs in the league. They won exactly half of the eight games that they played.
The Eurekas finished the season with the sixth best record and the sixth most wins with a record of nine and five. They also had the sixth best team runs batted in at 339 in their fourteen games.
The NABBP saw a lot of growth this season with nearly sixty teams, but Newark was still able to maintain an excellent standing, as they had the ninth most wins. The Eureka club was also in the top third for winning percentage. They had a nine and six record and batted in 446 runs in these fifteen games. This was the seventh most runs by a single team in the league in 1866. On August 28, seventeen-year-old Candy Cummings comes in for pitcher Asa Brainard of the Brooklyn Excelsiors, leading his team to a 24-2 win. Candy Cummings is said to be the first pitcher to throw a curveball and for his future performance in the National League was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
This was the first year the Eureka club really struggled during the season. They only won two of their ten games, giving them for the first time one of the worst winning percentages in the league, although there were nine team who didn't win a game in 1867. They had a reasonable number of runs batted in at 230, but was a small number for this team that had over two hundred more the prior season.
The team only played four games this season and won half. They only drove in 77 runs for the four games.
The Eureka Club only participated in two games in 1869 and lost both, with margins of eight and nine.

Scores

DateOpponentScoreWin/Loss/TieRecord*
June 7, 1860Hamilton 18-35Loss0-1
June 29, 1860Harlem15-21Loss0-2
August 3, 1860Harlem34-18Win1-2
August 10, 1860Brooklyn Enterprise21-25Loss1-3
August 22, 1860Newark Adriatics34-6Win2-3
August 27, 1860Brooklyn Enterprise21-13Win3-3
September 14, 1860Harlem10-23Loss3-4
September 19, 1860Newark Adriatics12-12Tie3-4-1
September 26, 1860Newark28-14Win4-4-1
October 26, 1860Belleville Baltics20-24Loss4-5-1
July 10, 1861Brooklyn Enterprise27-5Win5-5-1
August 21, 1862New York Mutuals13-14 Loss5-6-1
August ?, 1862New York Gothams18-13Win6-6-1
June 20, 1863Philadelphia Athletics8-6Win7-6-1
August 11, 1863New York Mutuals7-13Loss7-7-1
August 31, 1863Brooklyn Atlantics15-16Loss7-8-1
July 4, 1864New York Active27-29Loss7-9-1
July 6, 1864Brooklyn Atlantics13-25Loss7-10-1
July 7, 1864Princeton Nassua24-12Win8-10-1
August 2, 1864New York Mutuals10-16Loss8-11-1
September 14, 1864New York Active11-10Win9-11-1
NANew York EmpireNAWin10-11-1
NANew York EmpireNAWin11-11-1
NANew York MutualsNALoss11-12-1
June 12, 1865Philadelphia Athletics9-12Loss11-13-1
July 8, 1864Morrisania Union30-5Win12-13-1
July 24, 1865Philadelphia Keystones50-11Win13-13-1
July 31, 1865New York Mutuals12-27Loss13-14-1
August 8, 1865Philadelphia Athletics28-38Loss13-15-1
August 18, 1865Brooklyn Atlantics20-21Loss13-16-1
August 24, 1865Newark Pioneers12-5Win14-16-1
August 31, 1865Brooklyn Atlantics37-38Loss14-17-1
September 7, 1865Morrisania Union30-10Win15-17-1
September 14, 1865New York Mutuals20-19Win16-17-1
October 5, 1865Newark Americus85-12Win17-17-1
October 20, 1865New York Active6-3Win18-17-1
NANewark PioneersNAWin19-17-1
NANewarkNAWin20-17-1
May 31, 1866Harvard42-39Win21-17-1
June 12, 1866Morrisania Union26-28Loss21-18-1
June 22, 1866Newark Americus67-7Win22-18-1
June 28, 1866New York Mutuals13-24Loss22-19-1
July 10, 1866Kearney45-6Win23-19-1
August 14, 1866Brooklyn Atlantics36-10Win24-19-1
August 20, 1866New York Empire15-11Win25-19-1
August 27, 1866Philadelphia Athletics8-48Loss25-20-1
August 28, 1866Brooklyn Excelsior2-24Loss25-21-1
September 12, 1866New York Active24-9Win26-21-1
September 18, 1866Morrisania Union23-25Loss26-22-1
September 27, 1866Brooklyn Atlantics20-30Loss26-23-1
October 17, 1866New York Active44-12Win27-23-1
October 25, 1866Brooklyn Atlantics13-38Loss27-24-1
NAKearneyNAWin28-24-1
NANew York EmpireNAWin29-24-1
May 16, 1867Irvington17-25Loss29-25-1
May 23, 1867New Brunswick Stars66-9Win30-25-1
June 12, 1867Morrisania Union12-26Loss30-26-1
August 6, 1867Lansingburgh Union21-42Loss30-27-1
August 14, 1867Hartford Charter Oaks35-9Win31-27-1
August 23, 1867New York Mutuals21-34Loss31-28-1
September 5, 1867Brooklyn Atlantics13-21Loss31-29-1
September 10, 1867Morrisania Union14-33Loss31-30-1
September 23, 1867Brooklyn Excelsior22-41Loss31-31-1
November 2, 1867Irvington9-22Loss31-32-1
May 28, 1868Brooklyn Atlantics8-45Loss31-33-1
June 24, 1868Jersey City Champions17-4Win32-33-1
July 9, 1868Greenpoint Oriental22-28Loss32-34-1
NANANAWin33-34-1
September 19, 1869New York Empire6-14Loss33-35-1
October 3, 1869New York Empire0-9Loss33-36-1