Louisville Colonels

The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891. They were known as the Louisville Eclipse from 1882 to 1884 and as the Louisville Colonels from 1885 to 1891, the later name deriving from the historic title of the Kentucky Colonel. After the American Association folded in 1891 the Colonels joined the National League and played through the 1899 season. The name Colonels was also used by several minor league baseball teams that played in Louisville, Kentucky, during the twentieth century, which are separate from this major league club.