Newark Eurekas

Season by season

In 1860, the Eurekas posted the eleventh best win percentage and the eighth most wins among NABBP teams, while batting in the fifth most runs (213). The following year, Newark played only one game, defeating the Enterprise club of Brooklyn 27–5. In 1862, they played two games against ranked NABBP clubs, losing to the Mutuals by one run and beating the Gothams by five runs. In 1864, the team had the tenth best win percentage and tenth most wins, despite scoring the fifth fewest runs in the league; they won exactly half of their eight games. The 1865 season was their strongest, finishing with the sixth best record and sixth most wins (9–5), and the sixth most runs batted in (339 over fourteen games). In 1866, with nearly sixty NABBP teams, Newark maintained a top-third winning percentage and the ninth most wins (9–6), batting in 446 runs (seventh most in the league). On August 28 of that year, seventeen-year-old Candy Cummings pitched for the Brooklyn Excelsiors in a 24–2 win over the Eurekas; Cummings is credited as the first pitcher to throw a curveball and later entered the Baseball Hall of Fame. The 1867 season marked the club's first significant struggle, winning only two of ten games for one of the worst winning percentages, though nine teams failed to win any game. They scored 230 runs, a sharp drop from the prior year despite playing only five more games. In 1868, the team played four games and won half, driving in 77 runs. The Eureka Club participated in only two games in 1869, losing both by margins of eight and nine runs.