1st

Matt Kilroy pitches and wins both games of a doubleheader to close the home season at Oriole Park. This duplicates a feat of July 26th. The fastballer would finish the season with a 46-20 record, the ML-season record for a lefthander.

8th

The Metropolitan franchise and player contracts are sold to AA rival Brooklyn for $15,000. Purchaser Charles Byrne has the Mets play today's game in Brooklyn's Washington Park, where the hapless Indians lose to the Orioles 10-0.

The Phillies finish the NL season with their 26th victory in a row, still the club record. The late spurt jumps them to 2nd place behind Detroit.

9th

The St. Louis Browns end their season with a 95-40 record, besting their 1886 record by 2 wins. This will not be topped until the adoption of the 154-game schedule.

10th

The World Series opens in St. Louis with the Browns beating the Detroits 6-1. P Bob Caruthers holds the Wolverines to 5 hits and has 3 safe hits himself.

12th

Game 3 is the most dramatic of the series, Detroit winning at home 2-1 in 13 innings. St. Louis squanders 13 hits against Charlie Getzien, while Caruthers limits Detroit to 6 real hits.

13th

The best-of-15 WS begins its tour of the other cities with a game in Pittsburgh, Detroit winning 8-0 behind the 2-hit pitching of Lady Baldwin.

19th

Detroit runs its lead in the WS to 7 games to 2 with a 4-2 victory at the Athletics' Park.This follows a 3-1 win at the Phillies' Park on the 17th and a 9-2 rout on the 18th at the old Dartmouth Street Grounds in Boston, where Sam Thompson poled two HRs.

21st

Detroit clinches the World Championship with its 8th victory in game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore 13-3.

26th

The World Series winds up with a game back at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. St. Louis wins the final game but loses the series, 10 games to 5.

27th

The Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players holds a meeting and club representatives pledge not to sign standard contracts until negotiations are held concerning the wording of those documents.

29th

Ned Williamson and Silver Flint sign with Chicago for 1888 despite the Brotherhood pledge.