» May 28, 1892: In the Players' League, Jimmy Ryan helps Chicago defeat Amos Rusie and New York 10–4 by drawing five walks—half of Rusie's total for the game.
» December 1, 1896: Amos Rusie, a season-long holdout, announces he will settle with New York and play next season.
» March 27, 1897: Cleveland president Frank DeHaas Robison proposes that NL teams chip in to pay the 1896 salary of New York star Amos Rusie, who refused to play due to a contract dispute. Robison and other NL officials want to avoid Rusie's lawsuit, in which he seeks free agency. Although New York president Andrew Freeman vehemently opposes the NL plan, the $3,000 payment is made and Rusie rejoins the Giants.
» May 17, 1897: Pirates lefty Frank Killen, a 30-game winner last year, allows two hits to defeat Amos Rusie and the Giants 3–2. Pittsburgh's Denny Lyons has two fingers broken after being hit by a Rusie pitch.
» May 10, 1898: Amos Rusie of the Giants sets down Brooklyn on one hit and wins 5–0.
» December 15, 1900: Amos Rusie, out for the past two years with arm problems, is traded to the Reds by the Giants for young Christy Mathewson. Though only 30, Rusie, a future Hall of Fame pitcher, will not have the ability that brought him eight straight 20-game seasons, and he will not add to the 245 wins he collected in nine seasons. Appearing in just three games in 1901, he will finish with an 0-1 record. Mathewson, 0-3 with the Giants but 20-2 with Norfolk (Virginia League), is much coveted by Cincinnati owner John T. Brush, who is currently negotiating to buy control of the Giants from the unscrupulous Andrew Freedman. Before he takes over, Brush wants Mathewson in place as a Giants starter, rather than the "pitched out" Amos Rusie.
» May 8, 1901: Amos Rusie, onetime Hoosier Thunderbolt, makes his first start for the Cincinnati Reds after a two-year layoff and is bombed 14-3 by the Cards. Emmett Heidrick snags five singles off Rusie. After two more appearances, he goes back to digging ditches, having won 245 games, mostly for the Giants, in nine years.
» January 10, 1918:
Acknowledging that Ty Cobb, Speaker, and Collins are all good ball players, Cap Anson picks his all-time team, leaving them off. In the current issue of TSN, Anson selects, C–Buck Ewing and King Kelly; P–Amos Rusie, John Clarkson, Jim McCormick; 1B-himself; 2B–Fred Pfeffer; 3B–Ed Williamson; SS–Ross Barnes; OF–Bill Lange, George Gore, Jimmy Ryan, and Hugh Duffy.
» September 29, 1966: Sandy Koufax pitches a 4-hitter, beats the Cards 2–1, and becomes the first ML pitcher to achieve a third 300-strikeout season since Amos Rusie in 1890–92.
» January 31, 1977: The Special Veterans Committee selects Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez for the Hall of Fame.
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