Dalrymple was the leadoff man for
Cap Anson's Chicago White Stockings (later to become
the Cubs), a team that won five
National League pennants in seven seasons (1880-82,
85-86). In 1884 he hit 22 homers for the Chicago team that, benefiting from a short
rightfield fence, amassed 140 - a single-season club record that stood until the
1927 Yankees hit 158. Dalrymple led the NL in at-bats four times, in hits in 1880,
and in homers, with 11, in 1885. He was credited with the 1878 batting crown until
research in the 1960s dropped him to .354 while Providence's
Paul Hines's average
was elevated to .358. Dalrymple's four doubles in a game (7/3/1883) still tie him
with many others for the ML record.
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