Show RECORD ON TOBOGGAN louisville team lost twenty six straight contests C colonels were of old major leagea american AmerIca ii association worst los ing ng streak ever made ado in baseball history there to la one baseball record that no club Is id anxious to overturn and which everybody concerned will be glad to let stand until theand tho end of time that Is the record of consecutive defeats hung bung up in 1889 1880 by the louisville ville club of the old major league american association the string was finally broken by a 7 to 3 victory over the st louls louis team which put an end to the worst losing streak the game earns has ever known up to the time of tho the victory over st louis the colonels had lost 26 games in a row and the few wavering supporters porters of the club were on the verge of abandoning all hope that the team would ever win agaline a game the dubious feat of the louisville club remains anamay and may always remain the major league record only once has it been equaled in a minor league and it has never been surpassed in III any professional circuit in the Me Mer redlan ealan miss club of the cotton states league was ras nicked for 26 consecutive wallops and had the worldly record in sight eight when the team fell down and won a game the record losing streak of the na national league was pulled oft off in 1890 the year of the brotherhood war w when lien the pittsburgh club dropped 23 games in a row the whole bunch of smoky cief players went over to the players beag league ue and guy hecker ecker II the new mau manager had to build practically a new team getting ills his material where lie ho could after the long losing streak the fans deserted the sinking ship and gave their support to the players league team which included most of the old pittsburgh favorites games were transferred to other cl cities ties and even to neighboring towns in pennsylvania and ohio and west virginia the club also set net up another record that year by losing three games in a day the american league losing streak record of 20 games was set up by boston in 1900 jimmy colllns collins who managed the red bed sox from the first and who had bad kept the club in the first division and won two pennants prior to the fatal year was charged by the boston fans with neglecting ills duties and the veterans of the ought seemed to go all to pieces As a result boston finished the season in the cellar losing games and winning only 49 |