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Philadelphia, PA · 1871–1890 · 746 games

Home clubs

Philadelphia Athletics

Philadelphia Whites

First game

1871-06-03

Last game

1890-10-11

Avg attendance

1,765

Largest crowd

14,000

AKA: Athletics Park; PH1:1871-75; PH2:1873-75; PHN:1876; PH4:1883-1890

Year by year

Season	Home team	Games	Home W–L	Pct	Avg attendance
1890	Philadelphia Athletics	59	30–29	.508	11,810
1889	Philadelphia Athletics	59	37–17	.685	1,539
1888	Philadelphia Athletics	72	52–20	.722	2,014
1887	Philadelphia Athletics	71	40–29	.580	7,375
1886	Philadelphia Athletics	71	38–31	.551	5,500
1885	Philadelphia Athletics	57	33–23	.589
1884	Philadelphia Athletics	54	38–16	.704
1883	Philadelphia Athletics	51	37–14	.725
1876	Philadelphia Athletics	35	10–24	.294
1875	Philadelphia Athletics	36	26–7	.788	1,295
1875	Philadelphia Whites	31	15–15	.500	869
1874	Philadelphia Athletics	29	21–8	.724	1,020
1874	Philadelphia Whites	25	16–9	.640	962
1873	Philadelphia Whites	27	22–5	.815
1873	Philadelphia Athletics	27	21–6	.778
1872	Philadelphia Athletics	28	21–4	.840	2,375
1871	Philadelphia Athletics	14	9–5	.643	3,714

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