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Denny set ML career records for third basemen that still stand: 4.2 total chances per game and 1.6 putouts per game. Though he also holds the NL career record for errors at third base (553), for five seasons he ranked first or second in fielding average. On October 24, 1884 Denny hit the only home run in the first post-season series (a forerunner of the World Series) to defeat the New York Metropolitans and win the game and the Series for the Providence Grays. (FIC)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » January 23, 1881: Jerry Denny is feted at a benefit in his hometown of San Francisco just before he leaves for the east to launch a pro career that will last into the 20th century. » December 20, 1885: The St. Louis Maroons announce that Jerry Denny, Dude Esterbrook, Paul Hines, and George Myers are to play for them in 1886. Denny and Myers do so, but Esterbrook stays with the Giants and Hines goes to the newly formed Washington Nationals.