3rd

The Cleveland Spiders beat Pittsburgh 6-3 in St. Augustine in the first spring training game between 2 ML teams ever played in Florida.

6th

The International League changes its name to the Eastern Association because it no longer has any Canadian clubs.

8th

Opening Day in the AA with 4 games. In St. Louis, the Cincinnati Kellys walk off the field in the 9th inning after new umpire Billy Gleason makes several questionable decisions in favor of his old Browns teammates. Gleason will be fired in 2 days, and the game will be replayed.

11th

Clark Griffith, 21 years old, makes his ML debut, pitching the St. Louis Browns to a 13-5 victory over Cincinnati. After spending much of 1892 and 1893 in the minors, Griffith will return to remain active in the majors as a pitcher, manager, and club owner until his death in 1955.

13th

The Washington Statesmen (AA) open their new National Park before a crowd of 4,365. This site at 7th Street and Georgia Avenue, N.W., will serve ML baseball in the nation's capital through 1961, except for one 4-year period (1900-1903).

20th

Washington 2B Fred Dunlap, once considered the greatest in the game, suffers a career-ending broken leg.

22nd

Opening Day in the NL. The largest crowd (17,355) is in New York, where the Giants lose to the Boston Beaneaters 4-3 on a 9th-inning muff by CF George Gore.

26th

Local Cincinnati authorities allow the Kellys to play their Sunday game, which is won by the Louisville Colonels (AA) 12-6, but then arrest all the players on charges of violating the state's Blue Laws.

27th

The Bridegrooms play their home opener at Eastern Park in the East New York section of Brooklyn. The park was used by the PL club in 1890, and the NL club will occupy it for 7 years. It is located near a complex of streetcar and suburban railroad lines, forcing fans to "dodge trolleys" to get to the gates. This spawns the name "Trolley Dodger" or "Dodgers" for the ball club.