1872 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1872 throughout the world.

Champions

National Association: Boston Red Stockings

National Association final standings

National Association
Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
1st	Boston Red Stockings	39	8	.830	–
2nd	Philadelphia Athletics	30	14	.682	7.5
3rd	Baltimore Canaries	34	19	.642	8
4th	New York Mutuals	34	20	.630	8.5
5th	Troy Haymakers	15	10	.600	13.0
6th	Cleveland Forest Citys	6	15	.286	20
7th	Brooklyn Atlantics	8	27	.229	25.0
8th	Washington Olympics	2	7	.222	18.0
9th	Middletown Mansfields	5	19	.208	22.5
10th	Brooklyn Eckfords	3	26	.103	27.0
11th	Washington Nationals	0	11	.000	21.0

Statistical leaders

Lip Pike

National Association
Type	Name	Stat
AVG	Ross Barnes BOS	.432
HR	Lip Pike BAL	6
RBI	Lip Pike BAL	60
Wins	Albert Spalding BOS	38
ERA	Albert Spalding BOS	1.98
Strikeouts	Bobby Mathews BAL	55

Events

January–March

March 4 – At its annual convention being held in Cleveland, the NA adopts a rule change to allow the use of the wrist in the pitching delivery.

April–June

April 22 – Candy Cummings makes his debut with the New York Mutuals.
April 26 – "Orator" Jim O'Rourke makes his debut with the Middletown Mansfields.
May 24 – The Washington Olympics play their last game before dropping out of the NA. Poor talent and financial difficulties combine to do in the Olympics.
May 29 – Despite not having a team in the league in 1872, the city of Chicago hosts its first NA game since the Great Chicago Fire as the Baltimore Canaries defeat the Cleveland Forest Citys in front of 4,000 fans.
June 26 – The Washington Nationals, with an 0–11 record, disband after losing 9–1 to the Baltimore Canaries.

July–September

July 6 – Sporting a 22–1 record, Harry Wright takes the Boston Red Stockings on vacation to an island in Boston Harbor.
July 9 – The Brooklyn Eckfords commit 13 errors in their 15–3 loss to the Troy Haymakers. It is the fewest errors committed by the 0–11 Eckfords in a game thus far this season.
July 23 – Despite a winning record, the Troy Haymakers disband due to financial problems. Half of the Haymaker's roster will move to the Brooklyn Eckfords, which saves them from dropping out of the NA.
July 26 – In an emergency meeting, the NA revises their scheduling requirements from 5 to 9 games versus each opponent competing for the championship. This is in response to the number of teams that have disbanded and comes 3 days after the first-division Troy Haymakers had called it quits.
August 13 – The Middletown Mansfields announce that they have disbanded the club and drop out of the NA.
August 19 – The Cleveland Forest Citys disband their club after a loss to the Boston Red Stockings. This drops the number of teams still playing in the NA to 6.
September 1 – Al Thake, left-fielder batting .295 for the Brooklyn Atlantics, drowns in New York harbor after falling from a fishing boat. Thake is the first active major league ballplayer to die. (But Elmer White, active in 1871, had died in winter.)

October–December

October 22 – The Boston Red Stockings clinch the pennant with a 4–3 win over the Brooklyn Eckfords.

Births

January 12 – Togie Pittinger
February 3 – Lou Criger
March 3 – Willie Keeler
March 24 – Kip Selbach
May [?] – John Wood
May 10 – Klondike Douglass
May 16 – John O'Connell
May 23 – Deacon Phillippe
June 14 – Doc Parker
August 6 – Sam Mertes
August 15 – Silk O'Loughlin
August 15 – John Warner
August 18 – Eddie Hickey
September 5 – Al Orth
September 18 – Lord Byron
September 20 – Joe Berry
September 25 – Fred Odwell
October 3 – Fred Clarke
October 6 – Jack Dunn
December 5 – Pink Hawley
December 9 – Cy Seymour
December 25 – Ted Lewis

Deaths

Abbreviations
Date	Individual's death date
Name	Individual's name
Age	Age at death
Cause	Cause of death
Cemetery	Place individual is interred
City/State	City and state of burial
Seasons	Seasons in which individual appeared
Teams	Teams the individual played for or managed

Date	Name	Age	Cause	Cemetery	City/State	Seasons	Teams	Ref
March 17	Elmer White	21	Unknown	Elmwood Cemetery	Caton, New York	1871	Cleveland Forest Citys	^[1]
September 1	Al Thake	22	Drowning	Green-Wood Cemetery	Brooklyn, New York	1872	Brooklyn Atlantics	^[2]^[3]

References

General

Ryczek, William J. (1992). Blackguards and Red Stockings; A History of Baseball's National Association 1871–1875. Wallingford, Connecticut: Colebrook Press ISBN 0-9673718-0-5
Nemec, David (1997). The Great Encyclopedia of 19th-Century Major League Baseball. New York: Donald I. Fine Books ISBN 1-55611-500-8

Specific

↑ "Elmer Smith". retrosheet.org. Retrosheet, Inc. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
↑ "Al Thake". retrosheet.org. Retrosheet, Inc. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
↑ "The Obit For Bub McAtee". The New York Times. thedeadballera.com. September 2, 1872. Retrieved January 26, 2011.

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