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Briggs won 19 games for the 1904 Cubs but slumped to 8-8 the next year. By 1906 he was pitching semi-pro ball for Elyria of the Ohio Trolley League. His first pitch of that season was smashed for a homer by Wooster catcher Charles Follis, the first black pro football player. (BC)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » August 24, 1904: In Chicago, Christy Mathewson blanks the Cubs on three hits and the Giants defeat Herb Briggs, 3–0. The 2nd game is called after 10 innings with the score 2–2. Chicago fans show their feelings towards McGraw's Giants by tossing bottles onto the field. RF George Browne is hit on the leg and is almost hit in the head while chasing a fly ball. McGraw tells ump Bob Emslie that he will not allow his team to continue play until all the broken glass is cleared, and by the time that occurs it is too dark to continue play. » December 16, 1905: The Cubs trade OF Jack McCarthy and Billy Maloney, 3B Doc Casey, and pitcher Buttons Briggs to Brooklyn for Jimmy Sheckard, who will take over LF for the National League champions of the next three years.