baseball's recovery from the american civil war was far advanced in greater new york city (always untouched by the military conflict), as the leading clubs played more than 20 national association of base ball players (nabbp) matches, the gothams 11. george played eight and led the team both in runs, scoring 2.4 times per game, and "hands lost", put out only 2.4 times per game, average being three per player in a 9-inning game. in seven matches infielder harry was fourth in scoring at 2.0 and second behind george in hands lost at 2.6 (wright 2000: 91).