1st

Charlie Comiskey triples and homers to lead the Browns to a 14-13 victory over Cleveland. St. Louis scores 74 runs in a 4-game sweep and is on its way to becoming the first team ever to score over 1,000 runs in a season.

2nd

After winning 31 straight exhibition games and 3 regular-season games, Detroit loses its first of the year, to Pittsburgh and Jim Galvin 8-3.

3rd

After opening the season with 10 consecutive losses on the road, the Mets win their home opener on Staten Island from Brooklyn 8-2.

6th

The National Colored League, patterned after the NL, opens with a game in Pittsburgh, the Gorhams beating the Keystones 11-8 before a crowd of 1,200. Because of rainouts and small crowds the league, which has been recognized by the National Agreement as a legitimate minor league, will fold on May 16th after only 13 games.

7th

Tip O'Neill of the Browns hits for the cycle for the 2nd time in 5 games. In each game, Tip had a walk (counted as a hit) as well as a clean single.

Sam Thompson of Detroit becomes the first of only 6 ML players to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in one game.

9th

Ed Morris of the Alleghenies refuses to pitch today's game and is suspended for 3 weeks. Morris is having trouble with the new rules limiting the movement of pitchers in the box.

12th

The Browns score 12 runs in the 5th inning and beat the Orioles, who score 10 in the 8th, 22-14. The new 4-strike rule and the restricted pitching motion have generated a big jump in scoring.

16th

St. Louis wins its 15th straight game, which will be the longest streak of the year in the ML, beating the Athletics 7-2.

Giants rookie Mike Tiernan makes 5 errors, tying the ML record for an OF. But he contributes a HR as New York beats Indianapolis 11-8.

17th

Detroit's Dan Brouthers hits a bases-loaded triple and a bases-loaded homer as the Wolverines outslug the Phillies 19-10.

18th

White Stocking rookie Marty Sullivan ties the record by making 5 errors in RF as Chicago loses its 3rd straight in Washington 11-4.

20th

Nearly 2 weeks after defeating the Falls Citys in their NCBBL opener in Louisville, the Boston Resolutes finally leave for home after earning enough money for train fare by working as waiters. Their departure, and the circumstances surrounding it, sounds the death knell for the 2nd professional baseball league organized by African Americans.

21st

Sam Thompson's 3-run HR is the difference as Detroit beats Washington 4-2. Thompson will be credited with 166 RBI for the season, a 19th-century high.

24th

Indianapolis 3B Jerry Denny saves a run by holding King Kelly by the belt as Kelly tries to tag up on a fly ball. The umpire misses the play and does not penalize Denny. But the ploy does not save the Hoosiers from an 8-7, 10-inning defeat in Boston.

26th

The Louisville Colonels pile up a club record for runs in a 27-9 rout of Brooklyn.

30th

Chicago walks to a 12-11 victory in an a.m. holiday game in New York. Giants P Bill George walks 16 batters to establish a ML mark. Mickey Welch relieves in the 9th and walks one more to give Chicago 17 bases on balls for the game.