Not one of the 10 worst teams of all time, but pretty awful, the first of 3 straight 100 losses or more years. Occasionally this team, which later turned into the Orioles, would have a decent to good year, but usually they were quite foul, and are probably the team that could be most expected to suck for the entire first half of the 20th century. Practically the only player of note on this bunch was Bobby Wallace, an aging player/ manager who was probably the best American League shortstop in the early days, and possibly the most obscure Hall of Famer ever. It's difficult to come up with a similar more recent player. I guess the closest might be someone like Garry Templeton, who started out as a terrific player before fading, though Wallace had a longer and somewhat better career. The pitching staff was comprised of has beens and never weres, with only a guy named Jack Powell who was a good hurler that won almost 250 games- and lost even more, a pitcher who has the most wins with even more losses to his name being the most notable guy... and the only other real everyday player of note was George Stone, who led the AL in hitting in '06 and had a few other years as one of the better hitters in the league, but had a short career and was at the end of the line. The rest of these guys, well, the majority of them anyway, would have even pretty big baseball fans scratching their head, thinking who ARE these guys?. This crew finished 57 games behind a great A's team. The sad thing is, it wasn't even the worst club they ever had.