The Brooklyn Tip-Tops were a team in the short-lived Federal
League of professional baseball from 1914 to 1915. The team was named by owner
Robert Ward, who owned the Tip Top Bakery. They were sometimes informally called
the Brooklyn Feds or BrookFeds due to being the Brooklyn team of the Federal
League. The Tip Tops played in old Washington Park, which the Brooklyn Dodgers
had abandoned after the 1912 season to move to Ebbets Field. The team finished
a disappointing 4th in 1914. Federal League officials believed it was important
to have a successful franchise in the New York area and when the Indianapolis
Hoosiers were transitioned to Newark, New Jersey, the "Federal League Ty
Cobb", as 1914 FL batting champ Benny Kauff was known, was placed on the
Brooklyn roster. In 1915, Kauff led the league with a .342 batting average and
55 stolen bases, but the Tip-Tops still finished in seventh place. The Newark
and Brooklyn FL teams played three holiday doubleheaders during the 1915 season
where one game was in Newark and the second was in Brooklyn.On September 19,
1914, Tip-Top Ed Lafitte threw the only no-hitter in Federal League history,
beating the Kansas City Packers 6-2. Had the Federal League (FL) lasted just
one more season, night baseball might have been introduced two decades earlier.
The Tip Tops had announced plans for the 1916 season to play some games at night.
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