1st

Charlie Getzein (Detroit NL) hurls a 6-inning no-hitter against Philadelphia, winning 1-0.

3rd

P Henry Porter of Milwaukee (UA) matches Dupee Shaw's distinction of July 19th as he strikes out 18 batters while losing the game 5-4 to Boston.

4th

P Ed Cushman (Milwaukee, UA) follows up his no-hitter of September 28th with 8 more hitless innings before Boston's Ed Callahan loops a 9th-inning single. Cushman wins 2-0.

Sam Kimber (Brooklyn, AA) hurls a 10-inning no-hitter against Toledo, called due to darkness with the score tied 0-0.

5th

St. Louis (UA) pitchers Charlie Sweeney and Henry Boyle stop St. Paul without a hit or walk, striking out 9 men, before rain halts play after 5 innings. But the Maroons lose the game when 2 St. Louis errors allow the game's only run. The Sweeney-Boyle performance caps what is still the premier ML season for no-hitters: 12 in all, including one of 10 innings and 7 nine-inning games.

6th

The Mets announce that they will allow ladies to attend their home games for free for the remainder of the season--all of 5 games.

9th

Fred Dunlap's 13th HR helps his St. Louis Maroons (UA) bury the Washington Nationals 11-1. The P will add the HR championship to his UA titles in batting, slugging, on base percentage, hits, doubles, and total bases, the most dominant season by any nonpitcher of the 19th century. He also leads all UA second basemen in fielding average, putouts, assists, DPs, and total chances per game.

Jack Manning hits 3 HRs, getting half of Philadelphia's hits in the process, but his club still falls in Chicago (NL) 19-7. Manning totals only 5 HRs in 1884 and 13 over a 9-year career.

10th

Pat Deasley, who will hit .205 for St. Louis (AA) this year, gets all 3 of his team's hits off Tim Keefe, but cannot prevent the 3-1 loss to New York.

22nd

The weekly Sporting Life announces--just one day before the start of the event--that the 2 pennant-winners have agreed to meet in a 3-game series October 23-25 at New York's Polo Grounds to decide "the championship of America."

25th

Hoss Radbourn of Providence wins his 3rd straight over the AA New York Mets, concluding the 3-game series.

30th

Financially troubled despite finishing 2nd to New York in the AA, the Columbus club decides to sell its players to Allegheny of Pittsburgh (AA)--for $6,000--and go out of business.