IN THE NEWS: Following a disputed call in a 7–6 loss to Chicago, New York manager George Davis leads the crowd in an assault on umpire William Terry. Clark Griffith emerges with the win for Chicago.
IN THE NEWS: The Cardinals blow a 4–1 lead to the Giants, but come back against reliever Christy Mathewson, pitching his 3rd straight game in relief, to take another lead 8–7 in the 7th. St. Louis wins, 9–8, with John McGraw scoring the winning run in the 8th, handing Matty his first career decision. Matty will go 0–3 as a Giant before returning to Norfolk.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants tally four singles, a double, and triple in the first two innings against the Reds, but get only a run out of it. It's enough as they win, 1–0.
IN THE NEWS: A mechanical pitching gun is used in a game between the Memphis Chicks and the Nashvilles. The invention of Princeton professor Charles Hinton, the early pitching machine strikes out two and allows three hits in two innings.
IN THE NEWS: Reds pitcher Bill Phillips punches Phillies batter Roy Thomas after Thomas fouls off a dozen pitches in the 8th inning. Phillips is ejected but the Reds win in the 11th.
IN THE NEWS: Veteran manager Pat Tebeau resigns from the Cards. When 3B John McGraw refuses the job, the Robison brothers, the St. Louis owners, pick Louie Heilbroner, the 4' 9" Cardinals business manager, to run the team for the remainder of 1900. Many of the players refuse to take orders from the diminutive Heilbroner, and it will be McGraw who is really in command. Heilbroner will return to the front office the following year and in 1910 he will begin publishing The Baseball Blue Book.
IN THE NEWS: Milwaukee's Rube Waddell and Chicago White Sox hurler Roy Patterson go 17 innings before Rube wins, 2–1 in the first game of a twinbill. Three days earlier, the two squared off for 12 innings with Waddell winning, 3–2. When Connie Mack offers Rube a few days off to go fishing if he'll pitch the nitecap, Rube allows just one hit and wins in five innings, 1–0.
Patsy Tebeau quits as the Cardinals manager. John McGraw, ppossibly looking ahead to a possible Baltimore club in the new league, turns dwon the job. Louis Heilbroner replaces Patsy.
IN THE NEWS: In the Reds 15–7 pasting of St. Louis, Cy Young is knocked out of the box for the 2nd consecutive game. This is a first in his career. Young will finish 32 of his 35 starts in compiling a 19–19 record.
IN THE NEWS: Criticism of administration in the National League continues. The Sporting News offers the new American League some editorial encouragement: "An organization opposed to the National League will be welcome because it will mean the elevation of the game if it is successful."
Emmet "Snags" Heidrick swipes 4 bases in St. Louis's 2–0 win over Chicago.
IN THE NEWS: Matching Buck Freeman's feat of five weeks ago, Brooklyn's Bill Dahlen laces two triples in the 8th inning as his team beats Philadelphia, 14–3.
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