ocr: campaign. Following the loss, Spalding soldKing Kelly to Boston for $10,000. The sale electrified baseball fans, but it also signaled - the end ofthe Chicago dynasty. In the memorable 1887 campaign, Detroit won the pennant by 372 games over the Philadelphia Phillies. Wildly inflated batting averages resulted from rule changes that modified the third-strike rule and scored bases on balls as hits. Detroit feasted under the new rules as Sam Thompson and the "big four" ofDan Brouthers, Jack Rowe, Hardy Richardson, and Jim White keyed a league-leading - .343
