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Louisville Colonels (1885-1899) (AA and NL)

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  • Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown (1876 - 1948)
    Peter Centennial Brown (October 19, 1876 – February 14, 1948), nicknamed "Three Finger" or "Miner", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher at the turn of the 20th century. Due to a farm-machiner...
  • Jimmy Collins (1870 - 1943)
    Joseph Collins (January 16, 1870 – March 6, 1943) was an American professional baseball player. He played fourteen seasons in Major League Baseball. Collins was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in ...
  • Deacon Phillippe (1872 - 1952)
    Voted by the Pittsburgh fans as the greatest right-handed pitcher in Pirates history, Deacon Phillippe may have been the greatest control pitcher ever--his 1.25 walks per nine innings is the lower rati...
  • Tom Delahanty (1872 - 1951)
    James Delahanty (March 9, 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio – January 10, 1951 in Sanford, Florida) was a professional baseball player who played infielder in the Major Leagues from 1894-1897. He played for the ...
  • Billy Gumbert (1865 - 1946)
    Gumbert (August 8, 1865 – April 13, 1946), was a Major League Baseball pitcher in the 19th century. He was born William Skeen Gumbert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His brother Ad Gumbert and great nephe...

The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association (AA) throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891. They were known as the Louisville Eclipse from 1882–1884, and as the Louisville Colonels from 1885 to 1891. The latter name derived from the historic Kentucky colonels. After the AA folded in 1891, the Colonels joined the National League and played through the 1899 season.