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1887 Philadelphia Athletics season

Major League Baseball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4556218 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1887 Philadelphia Athletics had a 64–69 record and finished in fifth place in the American Association.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg.

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“1887 Philadelphia Athletics season” enters the record as major League Baseball season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Philadelphia, Athletics and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Philadelphia, Athletics and season.
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This entry incorporates text from “1887 Philadelphia Athletics season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.