4th

Buffalo's Pud Galvin no-hits Detroit and wins 18-0.

5th

Richmond--a midseason replacement for Washington--makes its AA debut with a 14-0 home loss to the Athletics. The Virginias will finish with a .286 record, some 96 percentage points better than Washington.

The ML debut of Chicago (NL) deaf-mute P Thomas Lynch goes well until the 8th, when his arm gives out. When the umpire refuses to allow Lynch to leave the game, Lynch switches positions with Cap Anson, who proceeds to surrender 5 runs and lose the game to Cleveland 8-5. Lynch, the 2nd deaf-mute in ML history, will never play another game.

6th

Chicago's Cap Anson hits 3 HRs in a 13-4 win against Cleveland at Lakefront Park. This gives him 5 HRs in 2 games.

7th

Philadelphia Keystone (UA) disbands.

Pud Galvin shuts out Detroit 9-0 with a 3-hitter. In the Buffalo star's last 3 games he has allowed only 4 hits. Galvin's scoreless-inning streak will reach 38 innings before Detroit beats him 1-0 in 12 innings.

9th

Charles Radbourn wins an 11-inning thriller 1-0 over 2nd-place Boston after Arthur Irwin hits a ball through a hole in the lathing above the RF wall for a HR. Radbourn is in the midst of a 42-inning streak in which he allows only one run, including 29 consecutive scoreless innings.

16th

The minor league NWL reorganizes to shorten travel distances between clubs, dropping Evansville, IN, and one of its strongest teams, Saginaw, MI. Saginaw ace John Clarkson (31-8) is thus freed to sign with Chicago (NL), where his pitching (10-3, 2.14 ERA) will give the White Stockings a lift.

18th

Harry Stovey's 3 triples and 2 singles contribute to Philadelphia's 20-1 pounding of Baltimore (AA).

21st

The UA game at Washington is halted after 8 innings. Charlie Gagus finishes with a no-hit 12-1 win over Wilmington.

23rd

After 9 losses, Toledo (AA) defeats Louisville for the first time, as Tony Mullane outduels Ren Deagle for a 1-0 two-hit victory. Deagle allows only 3 hits himself, but one is to engineering student Frank Olin, whose single drives Mullane home from 2B. Following his brief ML career, Olin will go on to found what is today the giant Olin Corporation.

25th

Chicago's UA club completes the transfer of its franchise to Pittsburgh and, in its first game as the Pittsburgh Unions, defeats front-running St. Louis 3-2.

26th

Kansas City (UA) manages to score one run against Cincinnati but bows 3-1 before Dick Burns's no-hit pitching.

Eclipse star Guy Hecker registers 17 strikeouts and allows only 6 hits, but 2nd-place Columbus (AA) manages to win 4-3. Despite the loss Hecker will lead the AA with 52 wins--the most in the history of the league--and in strikeouts with 385.

28th

New York's Mickey Welch opens a game against Philadelphia by striking out the first 9 men he faces for the all-time ML mark.