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1891 Philadelphia Phillies season

Major League Baseball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4556547 ↗
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Spring Training

The Phillies held spring training in 1891 in Cape May, New Jersey where the team stayed at the Aldine Hotel. The team had planned to practice at the Cape May Athletic Field, where the team held spring training 1888. Finding it unfit, the Phillies instead practiced on the Gas House field. It was the second of three seasons the Phillies trained in Cape May.

Regular season

After the season it was reported that the Phillies had earned about $5,000 in profit on the 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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“1891 Philadelphia Phillies season” enters the record as major League Baseball season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Philadelphia, Phillies and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1891 Philadelphia Phillies 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.