Indianapolis Hoosiers

The Hoosiers played three National League seasons at 146-249 and finished seventh, eighth and seventh. The best is 1889, at 59-75; the worst is the first, 1887, at 37-89. The club was bought out and dissolved after 1889 when the league reorganized against the coming Players' League.

Amos Rusie pitched here in 1889 at eighteen, went 12-10 for a club that lost three of every five, and was sold to New York, where he won 246 games and threw hard enough that the pitching distance was moved back to sixty feet six inches partly on his account.

He is the one Hall of Famer on the club's rosters. Its ground was Athletic Park. Indianapolis has had four major-league clubs across four leagues, none lasting more than three seasons, and this archive holds each separately.