The Little Rock Rose Buds, otherwise known as the Rose City Base Ball Club, were a professional baseball team based in Little Rock, AR in 1894. The team participated in the Arkansas State League.
History
The team was managed by Miles A. Stone, a professor at Little Rock Commercial College.
More than forty years after the season of 1894, Little Rock player Bill Kemmer recalled the Rose Buds in a letter to The Sporting News:
"I believe I played in the first successful electric light game ever staged. It was in 1894 in Little Rock, Ark., when that city was in the Arkansas State League. They called our team the Rose Buds . . . The other teams could not beat us and the league disbanded in the middle of the season. We continued as an independent team. Professor [Miles A.] Stone, who owned a business college, backed the club and among the players were Lew McAllister, Harry Martz, Pierce Childs, Charles Weber, Jimmy Hornibroke [sic] and [Russell] Steinoff [sic]."1
Schedule/Results
The following is a record of games played by Little Rock, with a presumably complete record of league games:
Players
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History
The team was managed by Miles A. Stone, a professor at Little Rock Commercial College.
More than forty years after the season of 1894, Little Rock player Bill Kemmer recalled the Rose Buds in a letter to The Sporting News:
"I believe I played in the first successful electric light game ever staged. It was in 1894 in Little Rock, Ark., when that city was in the Arkansas State League. They called our team the Rose Buds . . . The other teams could not beat us and the league disbanded in the middle of the season. We continued as an independent team. Professor [Miles A.] Stone, who owned a business college, backed the club and among the players were Lew McAllister, Harry Martz, Pierce Childs, Charles Weber, Jimmy Hornibroke [sic] and [Russell] Steinoff [sic]."1
Schedule/Results
The following is a record of games played by Little Rock, with a presumably complete record of league games:
Date | Location | Opponent | W/L | R | RA | Notes |
4/12/1894 | Fort Smith, AR | Fort Smith | W | 6 | 5 | Non-League Game |
4/13/1894 | Fort Smith, AR | Fort Smith | T | 17 | 17 | Non-League Game |
4/14/1894 | Fort Smith, AR | Fort Smith | W | 9 | 3 | Non-League Game |
4/26/1894 | Hot Springs | L | Non-League Game | |||
4/27/1894 | Hot Springs | W | Non-League Game | |||
4/30/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Fort Smith | L | 5 | 9 | Non-League Game |
5/1/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Fort Smith | W | 5 | 1 | Non-League Game |
5/2/1893 | Little Rock, AR | Fort Smith | W | 8 | 7 | Non-League Game |
5/3/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Fort Smith | W | 7 | 3 | Non-League Game |
5/7/1894 | Fort Smith | L | 2 | 3 | Non-League Game | |
5/8/1894 | Fort Smith | L | 2 | 6 | Non-League Game | |
5/9/1894 | Fort Smith | W | 5 | 4 | Non-League Game | |
5/10/1894 | Camden | W | Non-League Game | |||
5/11/1894 | Camden | W | Non-League Game | |||
5/12/1894 | Camden | W | Non-League Game | |||
5/14/1894 | Pine Bluff | W | 15 | 6 | Non-League Game | |
5/16/1894 | Fort Smith, AR | Fort Smith | L | 1 | 2 | Non-League Game |
5/17/1894 | Fort Smith, AR | Fort Smith | W | 17 | 2 | Non-League Game |
5/18/1894 | Fort Smith, AR | Fort Smith | W | 6 | 1 | Non-League Game |
5/19/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Memphis | L | 11 | 6 | Non-League Game |
5/28/1894 | Memphis | L | Non-League Game | |||
5/30/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Camden | W | 21 | 4 | League Game |
5/31/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Camden | W | League Game | ||
6/1/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Camden | W | League Game | ||
6/4/1894 | Camden, AR | Camden | L | League Game | ||
6/5/1894 | Camden, AR | Camden | L | League Game | ||
6/6/1894 | Camden, AR | Camden | W | League Game | ||
6/?/1894 | Hot Springs, AR | Hot Springs | W | League Game | ||
6/8/1894 | Hot Springs, AR | Hot Springs | W | League Game | ||
6/9/1894 | Hot Springs, AR | Hot Springs | W | 7 | 6 | League Game |
6/11/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Morrilton | W | League Game | ||
6/12/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Morrilton | L | League Game | ||
6/13/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Morrilton | W | League Game | ||
6/14/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Hot Springs | W | League Game | ||
6/15/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Hot Springs | W | League Game | ||
6/16/1894 | Little Rock, AR | Hot Springs | W | League Game | ||
6/18/1894 | Greenville, MS | W | Non-League Game | |||
6/19/1894 | Greenville, MS | W | Non-League Game | |||
6/20/1894 | Greenville, MS | W | Non-League Game | |||
6/23/1894 | Camden | L | League Game | |||
6/23/1894 | Camden | L | League Game | |||
6/23/1894 | Arkansas State League folds. | |||||
6/25/1894 | Morrilton | L | Non-League Game | |||
6/26/1894 | Morrilton | W | Non-League Game | |||
6/27/1904 | Morrilton | W | 7 | 4 | Non-League Game | |
7/13/1904 | Little Rock, AR | Uncle Joes | W | 6 | 4 | Non-League Game. First Night Game in AR. |
Players
Name | Born | Died | Notes | |||
Aubry | ||||||
Joseph Bammert2 | 12/19/1872 in Cincinnati, OH | 12/7/1935 in Cincinnati, OH | ||||
Briggs | Possibly Buttons Briggs | |||||
Pearce Chiles | 5/28/1867 in Deepwater, MO | MLB 1899-1900 | ||||
England | ||||||
James Hornibrook | 1/17/1874 in Little Rock, AR | 10/22/1937 in Little Rock, AR | ||||
Bill Kemmer | 11/15/1873 in PA | 6/8/1945 in Washington, DC | MLB 1895 | |||
B. Marshal | ||||||
Cook Martin | 10/22/1874 in AR | 9/7/1900 in Little Rock, AR | ||||
Henry Martz | Abt. 1865 in MS | Jackson, MS | ||||
Lewis "Sport" McAllister | 7/23/1874 in Austin, MS | 7/17/1962 in Wyandotte, MI | MLB 1896-1903 | |||
Gus Rammers3 | ||||||
Paul Russell | 3/23/1871 in Reading, PA | 10/8/1957 in Norristown, PA | MLB 1894 | |||
Scott | Probably E. W. Scott4 | |||||
Russell Steinhoff | 6/12/1857 in Middlesex County, Canada | Little Rock Resident | ||||
Charles Weber | 10/22/1868 in Cincinnati, OH | 6/13/1914 in Beaumont, TX | MLB 1898 |
1
The Sporting News, 2/14/1935, p.8
3
Arkansas Gazette, 2/24/1895
4
The Sporting News, 3/10/1894, p.2
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