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1892 in baseball

1892 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1892

Champions

*National League: Boston Beaneaters defeated Cleveland Spiders, 5 games to 0 (1 tie)

National League final standings

First half of season

Events

*June 2 - Benjamin Harrison becomes the first president to attend a game while in office when he watched the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Washington Senators 7-4 in 11 innings.
*August 6 - Jack Stivetts throws a no-hitter for the Boston Beaneaters in an 11-0 victory over the Brooklyn Grooms.
*August 22 - Louisville Colonels pitcher Ben Sanders hurls a no-hitter in a 6-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles.
*September 21 - John Clarkson of the Cleveland Spiders records his 300th career win.
*October 15 - On the last day of the season, Bumpus Jones of the Cincinnati Reds makes his major league debut with a 7-1 no-hitter against Pittsburgh, becoming the second pitcher to hurl a no-hitter in his first start.

Births

*January 16 - Fred Bratschi
*February 4 - Eddie Ainsmith
*February 17 - Nemo Leibold
*February 20 - John Donaldson
*February 24 - Wilbur Cooper
*April 16 - Dutch Leonard
*April 19 - Dave Black
*May 3 - Del Baker
*May 4 - Jack Tobin
*May 9 - Mickey Devine
*May 25 - Doug Smith
*June 4 - Paul Maloy
*June 10 - Frank Gilhooley
*July 13 - Eusebio González
*July 26 - Sad Sam Jones
*July 31 - Art Nehf
*August 12 - Ray Schalk
*August 26 - Jesse Barnes
*September 9 - Mike McNally
*September 21 - Elmer Smith
* October 22 - Norm McNeil
*November 19 - Everett Scott
*November 27 - Bullet Joe Bush
*December 14 - Rudy Kallio
*December 19 - Fred Thomas

Deaths

*January 14 - Silver Flint, 36, catcher with the Chicago White Stockings for eleven seasons who batted .310 for 1881 champions
*April 18 - Ned Bligh, 27, catcher for four seasons, died of Typhoid fever.
*May 21 - Hub Collins, 28, second baseman for the 1889-90 champion Brooklyn teams who led league in doubles and runs once each
*July 12 - Alexander Cartwright, 72, pioneer of the sport who formulated the first rules in 1845, developing a new sport for adults out of various existing playground games; established distance between bases at 90 feet, introduced concept of foul territory, set the number of players at nine per team, and fixed the number of outs at three per side and innings at nine; founded Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the sport's first organized club, in New York City, and spread the sport across the nation into the 1850s


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