1st

Professional baseball is born in England as 4 teams--Derby, Preston, Stoke, and Birmingham--form a league. Four Americans are imported to provide instructions for the teams, made up mostly of English pro footballers.

NL pioneer manager Harry Wright, in his 7th year at Philadelphia, is taken ill and temporarily loses his sight. Club owner Al Reach takes over.

2nd

Ed Delahanty of Cleveland (PL) goes 6-for-6 with 5 runs as his club crashes Chicago 20-7.

5th

Rookie RHP Billy Rhines, 21, pitches Cincinnati to a 9-1 win over Pittsburgh (NL), starting a 13-game winning streak that moves the Reds to a 33-13 record and 4-game lead over Brooklyn.

In the top of the 3rd inning at a Buffalo-Cleveland PL contest, a bolt of lightning hits the metal ball atop a flagstaff, splintering it and severely damaging the grandstand. No injuries are reported, but panic is widespread.

6th

Harry Wright, manager of Philadelphia (NL), is now said to be able to see while wearing colored glasses. A serious illness 5 days earlier had blinded him temporarily, making him the only blind manager in ML history.

10th

St. Louis AA P Jack Stivetts hits 2 HRs (and strikes out 10) in a game. He later duplicates this batting feat on August 6, 1891, and on June 12, 1896, making him the first pitcher to achieve this. The only 2 pitchers to match this achievement are Wes Ferrell (who had 5 such games) and Don Newcombe.

13th

Pittsburgh (NL) begins a tailspin, winning just one of 22 games in heading to a record 113 losses and .169 PCT, the lowest since the NL's first year when Cincinnati was .138 in a 65-game schedule.

15th

Lefthanded 2B Bill Greenwood plays SS for Rochester versus Syracuse today and becomes the only lefthanded throwing SS to participate in a triple play.

21st

Charles "Silver" King of Chicago (PL) pitches an 8-inning no-hitter, but loses to Brooklyn 1-0. Chicago bats first and King does not pitch the last of the 9th.

23rd

In field games, New York (PL) C Harry "Farmer" Vaughn makes a throw of 402 feet 21Ž2 inches, beating John Hatfield's 400 foot 71Ž2 inch record of 1872 and winning a $25 purse.

Rochester and Brooklyn (AA) play an exhibition at Elmira; the players are served with warrants for breaking the Sunday laws.

26th

Philadelphia (PL) scores 14 runs in the 6th inning against Buffalo on the way to a 30-run performance.