NufCed Hall: 1870s Recap

Let's recap the decade of the 1870s. As the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players rises in 1871 only to fold five years later, the National League is born in 1876 to become the dominant, and enduring, baseball league. Professionalism, long denied in the 1860s becomes accepted with the founding of the NA, and the world's best players are (mostly) paid to play baseball. Some of the game's great pioneers, who built the sport in the 1830s, '40s, and '50s, are enshrined in our burgeoning Hall of Fame, introduced here.

Class                              Player                           Builder
1871                               -                                     William R Wheaton
1872                               -                                     Daniel 'Doc' Adams
1873                               -                                     William H Tucker
1874                               -                                     Duncan F Curry
1875                               -                                     Henry Chadwick
1876                               -                                     Louis F Wadsworth
1877                               -                                     William Cauldwell
1878                               Al Spalding                    Alexander J Cartwright 
1879                               Candy Cummings         James Whyte Davis