Editing Roger Connor (section)

===Players' League (1890)===
Another New York baseball team, also known as the Giants, emerged with the founding of the [[Players' League]] (PL) in 1890. Several players from the NL team left for the new league's Giants team, including future Hall of Famers Connor, Keefe, [[Jim O'Rourke (baseball)|Jim O'Rourke]] and [[Hank O'Day]]. In 123 games, Connor registered 169 hits, a .349 batting average, 14 home runs, 103 [[run batted in|runs batted in]] (RBI) and 22 stolen bases. His home run total led the league and it represented the only major league single-season home run title that he won.<ref name=BR/> Connor experimented with some changes to his batting style that year. He hit more balls to the [[opposite field]] and he sometimes batted right-handed, though he did not have much success from the right side.<ref>Kerr, p. 103.</ref>

Though Connor had success in his season with the PL, the league struggled. Some of the teams ran into financial difficulties.  National League teams rescheduled many of their games to conflict with PL games in the same cities, and a high number of PL games were cancelled late in the season due to [[rainout (sports)|rainouts]].<ref name=Wiggins>{{cite book|last1=Wiggins|first1=Robert Peyton|title=The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs: The History of an Outlaw Major League, 1914–1915|date=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786438358|page=46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4yDtlquCJiYC|access-date=July 24, 2014}}</ref> Connor was optimistic that the league would be successful in 1891, but it officially broke up that January.<ref name=Ghosts>{{cite book|last=Fleitz|first=David L.|title=Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown: Sixteen Little-Known Members of the Hall of Fame|year=2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0786480610|pages=171–175|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0tZCr_c4UPUC&pg=PA173}}</ref>