12th

Inaugurating the first 12-team NL season, Amos Rusie of the New York Giants outpitches Tim Keefe of the Philadelphia Phillies 5-4.

The famous Boston Beaneaters battery of John Clarkson and King Kelly is too much for the Senators in Washington. Clarkson helps his cause with a HR in a 14-4 victory.

16th

Ohio governor William McKinley participates in the WL opening game in Columbus, which defeats Toldeo 8-5. Ironically, McKinley would never attend a ML game as president.

17th

The first Sunday game in NL history features the hometown Cincinnati Reds defeating the St. Louis Browns 5-1. Bid McPhee contributes a HR.

19th

Cincinnati's Tony Mullane surrenders only a bunt single in a 3-0 win over the Chicago Colts.

22nd

The Pittsburgh Pirates score 12 runs in the first inning against Ted Breitenstein and Bob Caruthers of St. Louis. Elmer Smith of the Pirates gets 2 bases on balls, marking the first time a player is walked twice in one inning.

23rd

Bill Shindle of the Baltimore Orioles has 5 errors at shortstop in a 19-9 loss to Boston in the 2nd game of a twin bill. He also makes 2 in the opener. He will make 78 errors by the end of the season.

24th

Notre Dame defeats Michigan 6-4 in the first intercollegiate varsity game for the Irish. The Notre Dame winner is pitching and batting star "Ringer" Willie McGill, a former student at the elementary school in the college. Though only 18 years of age, McGill is now in his 4th professional season. He will play for the Cincinnati Reds later in the year.

29th

Cleveland Spiders SS Ed McKean accidentally shoots himself through the "fleshy portion" of his finger with a revolver. He will recover within a week and go on to drive in 93 runs, albeit with the lowest batting average and HR total of his career to date.

30th

Dr. S. B. Talcott, superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum in New York, declares in the New York Clipper that "I believe that baseball is a homeopathic cure for lunacy. It is a kind of craze in itself, and gives the lunatics a new kind of crazing to relieve them of the malady which afflicts their minds."