finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1873 right 12 january 1926 elizabeth , new jersey ireland 1873 july 23 .145 0 3 first baseman elizabeth resolutes batting average home runs runs batted in april 28 1850 michael campbell.jpg mike campbell -lrb- first baseman -rrb-
 elizabeth resolutes mike campbell right
mike campbell -lrb- first baseman -rrb-

mathew `` mike '' campbell -lrb- 1850 -- january 12 , 1926 -rrb- was an american baseball player at the beginning of the professional era , primarily with teams in northern new jersey .
he was born in ireland .
1866 .
mike and his older brother hugh campbell joined the irvington club of irvington , new jersey , for the 1866 season .
the irvingtons were a new member of the national association of base ball players , and a `` country club '' in that irvington was still outside the growing metropolis .
-lrb- irvington is in essex county , closer to newark and the hudson river than to the western boundary . -rrb-
in one sense most of the association was new ; membership boomed to 98 clubs for 1866 , up from merely 30 including 22 in greater new york .
hugh campbell and at least two irvington teammates had played for the newark club in 1865 .
in their first match of the season on june 14 , irvington shocked the champion brooklyn atlantics 23 to 17 , who were undefeated for two seasons .
irvington would take the championship from atlantic if it could schedule a rematch or two and win at least one of them before any other club beat the champions in two of three .
location helped irvington get two rematches but they did not get the one win .
atlantic won 28 -- 11 in september and 12 -- 6 in ten innings on october 29 .
sixteen-year-old mike campbell played 13 of 17 team games on record and he was the regular at first base .
he made more than an equal share of outs and scored less than an equal share of runs .
hugh campbell played 17 games on record , primarily at center field .
the best players were pitcher rynie wolters and catcher andy leonard .
1867 .
all nine regular players returned to the irvingtons for 1867 and they were joined by lip pike for part of the season .
pike had moved from new york to play for the 1866 athletics , presumably for some compensation ; his subsequent move to the irvingtons suggests compensation too .
they were again one of the stronger teams in the association , winning 16 of 23 matches on record ; in june and july they won two close ones from union of morrisania , who would take the crown in october .
pitcher wolters was against the team 's outstanding batter , measured by runs scored and hands lost .
otherwise the attack was balanced and mike campbell at seventeen was one among equals .
he played 21 matches , tie for the lead .
1868 .
the new york mutuals acquired lip pike during the 1867 season and two more of the irvingtons for 1868 , shortstop mahlon stockman and the great wolters .
at the same time andy leonard and charlie sweasy moved to the buckeyes , an ambitious club in cincinnati .
although five regular players remained , the team was much weakened and no longer adequately covered in the known records .
mike campbell may have been the best remaining batter-runner .
in 10 matches he scored 24 runs with 22 hands lost -lrb- times put out -rrb- , the highest ratio on the team .
