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Baltimore Terrapins
Season Records 1914-1915 (2 seasons)

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Recap

Most of the professional baseball teams in Baltimore have been called the Orioles, in reference to the Baltimore oriole bird. There was already a minor league Baltimore Orioles, and the new Federal League club built their ballpark directly across the street from the Orioles park. The new club chose to call itself the Baltimore Terrapins, after the diamondback terrapin, the state reptile of Maryland. That nickname would later become primarily associated with the University of Maryland, College Park sports teams called the Maryland Terrapins.

While the 1914 team posted a respectable 84–70 record and finished only 4½ games out of first place under player-manager Otto Knabe, the team was less than successful at the box office, even though four of the eight teams in the league (Chicago, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis) were competing with one and even two (Chicago and St. Louis) other major league teams in the same cities.


The 1914 Baltimore Terrapins
In an attempt to turn this situation around and attract a marquee player to help them at the box office, the 1915 team recruited Chief Bender of the American League champion Philadelphia Athletics. The Athletics had sold off several future Hall-of-Famers like Eddie Plank, Eddie Collins and Frank "Home Run" Baker after being swept by the surprising Boston Braves in the 1914 World Series.

Bender had come off an impressive 17–3 season where he compiled seven shutouts and a 2.26 ERA in 1914. However, his 1915 season at Baltimore was a low point of his Hall of Fame career when he slumped to a 4–16 record, no shutouts, and a 3.99 ERA. Baltimore's collapse to a 47–107 record, 40 games out of first, was overshadowed only by the collapse of Bender's former team who went from a 99–53 league championship season to a dismal 43–109 record, 58½ games out of first in 1915. Bender and the Baltimore Terrapins never made a full recovery from 1915.

The incident did show the Federal League could compete seriously with the National League and American League on a professional baseball level and led to the buy-out truce which ended the Federal League for good. However, the Baltimore team's owners were not offered a part in this buyout.

Impact
When the Federal League started, the Terrapins severely cut into the minor league Baltimore Orioles' attendance, causing financial problems for the owner. As a result, several players, including the young left-handed pitcher Babe Ruth, were offered for sale to major league teams. Ruth's contract was purchased by the Boston Red Sox, after being turned down by Connie Mack and the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1914, Ruth begin his career with the Red Sox of the rival American League. After the demise of the Federal League and the Terrapins, Baltimore would not see major league baseball again until 1954, when the former St. Louis Browns moved into town and became the present-day Baltimore Orioles.

As the Terrapins' owners were not offered any part of the buyout offer made to most Federal League teams by the American and National Leagues, they decided to sue, alleging that the buyout was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The resulting case led to the U.S. Supreme Court deciding that the scheduling and playing of "base ball games" did not constitute "interstate commerce" in any sense envisioned by the Framers of the United States Constitution; therefore, the Sherman Act and other federal laws and regulations did not apply to baseball. The case, Federal Baseball Club v. National League, was not ultimately decided until 1922.

The minor league Orioles moved into Terrapin Park, a wooden ballpark. This move began a chain of events which would eventually lead to the return of major league baseball to Baltimore.

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Terrapins Season Records
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Profile photo of Mickey Doolin

Mickey Doolin

1914

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Profile photo of Vern Duncan

Vern Duncan

1914

12

 

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Profile photo of Benny Meyer

Benny Meyer

1914

10

 

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Profile photo of Harry Swacina

Harry Swacina

1914

9

 

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Profile photo of Guy Zinn

Guy Zinn

1914

9

 

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Profile photo of Jack McCandless

Jack McCandless

1914

8

 

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Profile photo of Yip Owens

Yip Owens

1915

7

 

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Profile photo of Louis 'Steve' Evans

Louis 'Steve' Evans

1915

6

 

9
Profile photo of Hack Simmons

Hack Simmons

1914

6

 

10
Profile photo of Jimmy Walsh

Jimmy Walsh

1914

5

 

11
Profile photo of Harvey Russell

Harvey Russell

1914

4

 

12
Profile photo of Otto Knabe

Otto Knabe

1914

4

 

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Profile photo of Fred Jacklitsch

Fred Jacklitsch

1914

4

 

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Profile photo of Enos Kirkpatrick

Enos Kirkpatrick

1914

4

 

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Profile photo of Johnny Bates

Johnny Bates

1914

3

 

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Profile photo of Jack Quinn

Jack Quinn

1914

2

 

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Profile photo of Joe Agler

Joe Agler

1915

2

 

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Profile photo of Frank Smith

Frank Smith

1914

2

 

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Profile photo of Snipe Conley

Snipe Conley

1914

1

 

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Profile photo of Jim Hickman

Jim Hickman

1915

1

 

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Profile photo of Jimmy Smith

Jimmy Smith

1915

1

 

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Profile photo of Ken Crawford

Ken Crawford

1915

1

 

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Profile photo of Doc Kerr

Doc Kerr

1914

1

 

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Profile photo of Medric Boucher

Medric Boucher

1914

1

 

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Profile photo of Frank Lobert

Frank Lobert

1914

1

 

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Profile photo of Karl Kolseth

Karl Kolseth

1915

1

 

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Profile photo of Kaiser Wilhelm

Kaiser Wilhelm

1914

1

 

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Profile photo of George Suggs

George Suggs

1914

1

 

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Profile photo of Ducky Yount

Ducky Yount

1914

0

 

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Profile photo of Wally Reinecker

Wally Reinecker

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Dave Black

Dave Black

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Charlie Maisel

Charlie Maisel

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Fred Kommers

Fred Kommers

1914

0

 

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Profile photo of Rankin Johnson

Rankin Johnson

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Charlie Miller

Charlie Miller

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Ed Forsyth

Ed Forsyth

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Tommy Vereker

Tommy Vereker

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of John Allen

John Allen

1914

0

 

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Profile photo of Larry Douglas

Larry Douglas

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Jack Ridgway

Jack Ridgway

1914

0

 

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Profile photo of John Gallagher

John Gallagher

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Felix Chouinard

Felix Chouinard

1914

0

 

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Profile photo of Chief Bender

Chief Bender

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Charlie Young

Charlie Young

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Vern Hughes

Vern Hughes

1914

0

 

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Profile photo of George LeClair

George LeClair

1915

0

 

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Profile photo of Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey

1914

0

 

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Profile photo of Charlie Eakle

Charlie Eakle

1915

0

 

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