Colts 36, Colonels 7

The worst game in baseball history?

Colts 36, Colonels 7

On June 29, 1897, the Louisville Colonels lost in Chicago by the wild score of 36-7.

It’s kind of hard to recreate all the reporting of that game and do it justice. Here are a few newspaper clippings for those who may have interest in this historic event:

From The Chicago Daily Tribune:

From The Daily Inter Ocean:

From The Chicago Chronicle:

And there’s The Louisville Courier-Journal, which, unfortunately, is almost impossible to read:

Here’s a blurb from The New York Sun:

And here’s what Sporting Life had to say:

Note that the numbers of hits, errors, and the attendance differs in every boxscore.

Have you ever had a game like this in one of your projects?