 With the pieces in place, the Chicago National League Ball Club quickly established themselves as one of the new National League's top teams.Spalding won 47 games that season, and James "Deacon" White and Ross Barnes, also brought in by Hulbert, were major contributors as well, as Barnes hit .429 that season and White, one of the last great bare-handed catchers, led the league in RBI.The White Stockings cruised through the National League's inaugural season of 1876, winning the league's first championship.