BOSTON, MA. August 7, 1915 - Twenty-two wins, eighty-nine losses. A .198 winning percentage. Twenty-six games back of the second-worst team (Brooklyn Tip-Tops: 48-63). Seventeen straight losses as of today. Will any team ever be this bad again?
While the United Baseball League is in just it's fourth season, we believe that the foundation is in place for this league to succeed for a very long time. We hope that it does, and for this article, we're going to assume that it does indeed continue to succeed.
Will any team, in the next one-hundred seasons, be as bad as the Boston Shipbuilders are in this 1915 campaign?
For starters, the team cannot blame the fact that they are an expansion team and had to select from other team's unprotected players. There were three other expansion teams. One of them, the St. Paul Saints, are three games behind the first place Chicago Whales and have put together a 63-48 record. The Centennials of Philadelphia are in 7th place with a 49-62 record. The Detroit Wolverines are the team ahead of Boston in the UL and have a 51-60 record.
Again, the Boston Shipbuilders are 22-89. This record could stand for a long, long time.
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