1899 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1899

Champions

*National League: Brooklyn Superbas

National League final standings

Events

*May 25 - Deacon Phillippe of the Louisville Colonels pitches a no-hitter against the New York Giants in a 7-0 victory.

*August 7 - Boston Beaneaters pitcher Vic Willis leads his team to a 7-1 victory by throwing a no-hitter against the Washington Senators.

*Buck Freeman scored 25 home runs during the 1899 season; the second highest total was Bobby Wallace with 12. Although Freeman failed to equal Ned Williamson's record of 27 home runs in a season, recorded in 1884, Freeman's total is generally regarded as the greater achievement owing to the dimensions of Williamson's home ballpark of Lakeshore Park (of Williamson's 27 homers, only 2 were scored away from home). Freeman's tally was not surpassed until 1919, when Babe Ruth scored 29 home runs with the Boston Red Sox.

*Following the season, the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Spiders, Louisville Colonels and Washington Senators were all dropped by the National League, reducing the number of teams in the NL for 1900 to eight. The NL would remain at eight teams until the 1962 season.

Births

January-March

*January 3 - Buzz Arlett
*January 11 - Alvin Crowder
*January 12 - Joe Hauser
*January 18 - Eddie Moore
*January 21 - Lew Fonseca
*January 23 - Bill Regan
*January 27 - Bob Barrett
*January 27 - Bibb Falk
*February 7 - Earl Whitehill
*February 9 - Specs Toporcer
*February 24 - Pinky Pittenger
*February 28 - Lil Stoner
*March 1 - Ernie Padgett
*March 17 - Charlie Root
*March 30 - Hal Rhyne

April-June

*April 5 - Tony Welzer
*April 12 - Trader Horne
*April 18 - Bill Bayne
*May 10 - Freddie Maguire
*May 14 - Earle Combs
*May 25- Hal Elliott
*June 2 - Sloppy Thurston
*June 3 - Urbane Pickering
*June 7 - Lafayette Henion

July-September

*July 12 - Walter French
*July 19 - Joe Kiefer
*July 27 - Jim Faulkner
*July 29 - Walter Beall
*August 1 - Joe Shaute
*August 4 - Oscar Melillo
*August 5 - Sam Gibson
*August 7 - Ted Wingfield
*August 11 - Frank Brazill
*August 14 - Skinny Graham
*August 18 - Bernie Friberg
*August 22 - Dud Lee
*August 25 - Pea Ridge Day
*September 5 - Max Bishop
*September 6 - Del Bissonette
*September 7 - Clarence Winters
*September 9 - Waite Hoyt
*September 15 - Harry McCurdy
*September 16 - Heinie Mueller
*September 17 - Sheriff Blake
*September 20- Nelson Greene
*September 21 - Del Lundgren
*September 25 - Hoge Workman

October-December

*October 11 - Eddie Dyer
*October 24 - Cuckoo Christensen
*October 28 - Percy Jones
*October 26 - Judy Johnson
*November 6 - Joe Munson
*December 2 - Ray Morehart
*December 6 - Jocko Conlan
*December 7 - Ed Morris
*December 10 - Jake Hehl
*December 20 - George Pipgras
*December 23 - Tommy Thomas
*December 26 - Logan Drake

Deaths

*March 9 - Bill McGunnigle, 44, manager who led Brooklyn to the American Association title in 1889, and the NL pennant the following year after the team switched leagues; as collegiate catcher, was possibly the first at that position to wear a glove