Chicago Colts

Cap Anson managed all eight Colts seasons and went 551-516 — the club's entire record under the name is his. It won no pennant, which after six in the previous fourteen years was the reason the name changed again: when Anson left in 1897 the writers called what was left the Orphans.

The best season is 1890, at 83-53, the first under the name and the year the Players' League took most of the National League's stars. The worst is 1894, at 57-75. The name came from how young the roster was after Anson rebuilt it.

Two Hall of Famers played here: Anson, who was 45 in his last season and still playing first base, and Clark Griffith, who pitched. Home was South Side Park and then West Side Park, where a fire during a game in 1894 injured several hundred people.