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Champions

National League final standings

National LeagueBoston Beaneaters
Club Wins Losses Win %   GB
102 47 .685 --
Baltimore Orioles 96 53 .644 6
Cincinnati Reds 92 60 .605 11.5
Chicago Orphans 85 65 .567 17.5
Cleveland Spiders 81 68 .544 21
Philadelphia Phillies 78 71 .523 24
New York Giants 77 73 .513 25.5
Pittsburgh Pirates 72 76 .486 29.5
Louisville Colonels 70 81 .464 33
Brooklyn Bridegrooms 54 91 .372 46
Washington Senators 51 101 .336 52.5
St. Louis Browns 39 111 .260 63.5

Events

  • April 21 - Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam in his first major league at-bat. No one else will accomplish that feat until Jeremy Hermida in .

    Births

  • January 5 - Riggs Stephenson
  • January 10 - Fats Jenkins
  • January 18 - John Woods
  • January 24 - Cliff Heathcote
  • February 4 - John Perrin
  • April 10 - Tom Jenkins
  • April 24 - Andy Cooper
  • April 25 - Fred Haney
  • July 10 - Dick Lundy
  • July 14 - Happy Chandler
  • August 14 - Bill Clowers
  • August 17 - Bill Pertica
  • August 28 - Charlie Grimm
  • August 30 - Kiki Cuyler
  • September 9 - Frankie Frisch
  • September 13 - Curt Fullerton
  • September 18 - George Uhle
  • September 20 - Chuck Dressen
  • September 23 - George Murray
  • October 9 - Joe Sewell
  • October 30 - Bill Terry
  • November 3 - Homer Summa
  • November 11 - Pie Traynor
  • November 30 - Firpo Marberry

    Deaths

  • April 17 - Bobby Mathews, 46, pitcher who won 297 games, 131 of them in the National Association, in a career that ran from 1871 to 1887; won the first professional league game in 1871, and had 30-win seasons for the 1883-85 Philadelphia Athletics

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