1876 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1876

Champions

*National League: Chicago White Stockings

Major League Baseball final standings

* The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs was formed in 1876 with the eight teams listed here. They were asked to play seventy games between April 22 and October 21.

tatistical leaders

Notable seasons

Events

January-March

*February 2 - The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs was formed at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois; it replaced the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. Morgan Bulkeley of the Hartford Dark Blues is selected as the league's first President.
*February 12 - Albert Spalding moves to Chicago where he announces plans to open a sporting goods store that today is simply known as Spalding.

April-June

*April 22 - Joe Borden of the Boston Red Caps, who pitched the first no-hitter in professional history in by|1875, is the winning pitcher in the first game to be played in the new National League as Boston scores 2 runs in the 9th inning to beat the Philadelphia Athletics 6-5.
*April 25 - Albert Spalding pitches the first shutout in National League history as the Chicago White Stockings beat the Louisville Grays 4-0.
*May 2 - Ross Barnes of the Chicago White Stockings hits the first home run in the history of Major League Baseball. It is an inside-the-park home run off pitcher William "Cherokee" Fisher of the Cincinnati Red Stockings.
*May 13 - The New York Mutuals turn a triple play in a loss to the Hartford Dark Blues.
*May 13 - Cincinnati catcher Will Foley commits 12 errors in an 11-0 loss to the St. Louis Brown Stockings.
*May 25 - The Philadelphia Athletics and Louisville Grays tie 2-2, the first tie in MLB history.
*May 30 - The Chicago White Stockings play at Boston, with 4 players raided from the Red Caps in the off-season, in front of an estimated 14,000 fans. The largest crowd ever to attend a baseball game sees Chicago take a 5-1 victory.
*June 14 - George Hall and Ezra Sutton of the Philadelphia Athletics each hit 3 triples in the same game, the only time this feat has ever been accomplished. Hall also became the first player in National League history to hit for the cycle.

July-September

*July 15 - George Bradley of the St. Louis Brown Stockings pitches the first no-hitter in MLB history against the Hartford Dark Blues.
*August 4 - Trailing the Chicago White Stockings with rain looming, the Louisville Grays stall the game by committing error after error until the umpire rules the game a forfeit. The game result would later be removed from the official league standings.
*September 5 - George Bradley of the St. Louis Brown Stockings throws his 16th shutout of the season in a 9-0 win over the New York Mutuals. It is a record that still stands.
*September 11 - The Philadelphia Athletics inform the league office that they will be unable to make their last western road trip due to financial trouble.
*September 16 - The New York Mutuals announce they will not make their final road trip of the season due to lack of funds.
*September 26 - The Chicago White Stockings clinch the first National League pennant with a 7-6 win over the Hartford Dark Blues.

October-December

*October 21 - Dick Higham of the Hartford Dark Blues goes hitless, breaking his 24-game hitting streak.
*October 23 - The statistic batting average is created by the "Chicago Tribune".
*December 10 - At its winter meetings held in Cleveland, the National League announces the expulsion of the Philadelphia Athletics and the New York Mutuals for failure to complete their required schedule in the 1876 season. Neither storied club, who were both so instrumental in the evolution of professional baseball, will ever appear again in Major League Baseball.
*December 10 - William Hulbert, of the Chicago White Stockings, is elected as the new President of the National League.

Births

*January 11 - Elmer Flick
*January 25 - Fred Glade
*January 27 - Otis Clymer
*February 7 - Pat Moran
*February 13 - Fritz Buelow
*April 5 - Bill Dinneen
*April 11 - Win Kellum
*April 12 - Vic Willis
*April 20 - Charlie Hemphill
*May 5 - Frank Morrissey
*June 2 - Charlie Jones
*June 10 - George Prentiss
*June 29 - Patsy Flaherty
*July 23 - Ginger Beaumont
*July 26 - Sam Breadon
*August 11 - Danny Murphy
*September 3 - George Stone
*September 15 - Nick Altrock
*October 13 - Bill Donovan
*October 13 - Rube Waddell
*October 19 - Mordecai Brown
*October 27 - Patsy Dougherty
*November 6 - Danny Green
*November 9 - Moonlight Graham
*November 12 - Ed Killian
*December 16 - Sammy Strang
*December 20 - Jimmy Williams

Deaths

*May 29 - Tom Miller, age unknown, catcher in 1874-1875.
*October 18 - Bub McAtee, 31, first baseman for the 1871 Chicago White Stockings and 1872 Troy Haymakers.

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL_1876.shtml/ 1876 season at baseball-reference.com]
* [http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/ Charlton's Baseball Chronology at BaseballLibrary.com]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/yearmenu.shtml/ Year by Year History at Baseball-Almanac.com]
* [http://retrosheet.org/ Retrosheet.org]