1876 in baseball
After a tumultuous five-year existence, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NA) folded following the 1875 season. The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (NL) was formed in Chicago, Illinois by businessman, and owner of the Chicago White Stockings, William Hulbert, for the purpose of replacing the NA, which he believed to have been corrupt, mismanaged, full of rowdy, drunken ballplayers, and under the influence of the gambling community.[1][2] One of the new rules put into place by the new league was that all teams had to be located in cities that had a population of 75,000 or more. The initial NL season began with eight teams, and they were asked to play seventy games between April 22 and October 21.[3] The NL is considered to be the first "major league", although it has been argued that the NA can make that claim.[4]
Champions
Four premier semi-professional teams were in play in 1876. They were the Binghamton Crickets, the Columbus Buckeyes, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys and the Syracuse Stars. In competition against NL clubs these 4 semi-pro teams played 32 games – winning 16, losing 14 and tying 2 contests. Of the 60 players on these 4 semi-pro teams no fewer than 50 of them wound up playing in the National League over the next 5 seasons.
Major league baseball final standings
Statistical leaders
Events
Date | Place | Ballpark | Event | Ref |
February 2 | Chicago | | William Hulbert organized the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, replacing the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which had folded at the conclusion of the 1875 season. Morgan Bulkeley, the owner of the Hartford Dark Blues, is selected as the league's first President. | [1] |
February 12 | Chicago | | After he joined the Chicago White Stockings as a player, Albert Spalding announced his plan to open a sporting goods retail store in Chicago; known today as Spalding. | [7][8] |
April 22 | Philadelphia | Athletic Park | The Boston Red Caps defeat the Philadelphia Athletics by the score of 6–5, in the first NL game. Joe Borden, pitching under the pseudonym Joe Josephs, is the winning pitcher, and Jim O'Rourke collected the league's first base hit. | [7][9] |
April 25 | Louisville | Louisville Baseball Park | In the Chicago White Stockings' first game, Albert Spalding threw the NL's first shutout as Chicago defeated the Louisville Grays by the score of 4–0. Spalding threw another shutout in the White Stockings' second game, on April 25, also against Louisville. | [7][10] |
May 2 | Cincinnati | Avenue Grounds | Ross Barnes of the Chicago White Stockings hit the first NL home run, an inside-the-park home run off pitcher Cherokee Fisher of the Cincinnati Red Stockings. | [7][11] |
May 13 | Hartford | Hartford Ball Club Grounds | The New York Mutuals achieved a triple play in a loss to the Hartford Dark Blues. | [7][12][13] |
May 25 | Philadelphia | Jefferson Street Grounds | The game between the Philadelphia Athletics and Louisville Grays ended in a 2–2 tie, the first game to end in a tie in the NL and in major league history. | [7][14][15] |
May 30 | New York | Union Grounds | In a game between the Louisville Grays and the New York Mutuals, Louisville right fielder, George Bechtel, committed three of the nine errors that led to his team's defeat. Louisville's ownership suspected that he intentionally "fixed" the game by intentionally committing errors to ensure a winning bet for himself and other gamblers. Management intercepted a wire dated June 10, in which Bechtel conspired to lose the game that day. Bechtel refused to resign when confronted with the evidence, so Louisville banished him from the team. | [16] |
June 14 | Philadelphia | Jefferson Street Grounds | George Hall and Ezra Sutton of the Philadelphia Athletics each hit three triples in a 20–5 victory against the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the only time teammates have accomplished this feat. | [7][17] |
June 17 | Philadelphia | Jefferson Street Grounds | In a 23–15 victory over the Cincinnati Red Stockings, George Hall of the Philadelphia Athletics becomes the first major league player to hit two home runs in a single game. | [17][18] |
June 27 | Chicago | 23rd Street Grounds | Davy Force of the Philadelphia Athletics collects six hits in six at bats in a 14–13 victory against the Chicago White Stockings and Albert Spalding. He is the first major leaguer to collect six hits in a nine-inning game. | [7][10][19] |
July 15 | St. Louis | Grand Avenue Park | George Bradley of the St. Louis Brown Stockings pitches the first no-hitter in MLB history, a 2–0 victory against the Hartford Dark Blues. It is the second no-hitter recorded in professional play, after Joe Borden's on July 28, 1875. | [20][21] |
July 25 | Chicago | 23rd Street Grounds | Cal McVey of the Chicago White Stockings collects six hits for the second consecutive nine-inning game. He has totaled 15 hits in the last three games, and 18 hits in the last four, both records. After collecting two more hits on July 27, and four more on July 29, McVey will have tied his own record with 18 hits in a four-game stretch. | [7][10] |
August 4 | Louisville | Louisville Baseball Park | 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. | [7] |
August 21 | St. Louis | Grand Avenue Park | In the ninth inning, and the score tied 6–6, of game between the Chicago White Stockings and the St. Louis Brown Stockings, a St. Louis batter hit the base-runner coming from third base with batted ball. The umpire ruled that the runner was allowed to score, so Chicago left the field in protest. The umpire then awarded the game to St. Louis. | [22] |
September 5 | New York | Union Grounds | George Bradley of the St. Louis Brown Stockings records his 16th shutout of the season in a 9–0 win over the New York Mutuals. This season total of 16 shutouts has since been tied, by Grover Cleveland Alexander, of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1916. | [20][23] |
September 11 | Philadelphia | | The Philadelphia Athletics inform the league office that they will be unable to make their last western road trip due to financial trouble. The owner of the Athletics suggested that the Chicago White Stockings and the St. Louis Brown Stockings play additional games in Philadelphia, take a larger than normal portion of the gate receipts, so they raise enough money to finish their schedule, which was denied. | [7] |
September 16 | New York | | The New York Mutuals announce the league office that they will not make their final western road trip of the season due to lack of funds. | [7] |
September 26 | Chicago | 23rd Street Grounds | The Chicago White Stockings clinch the first National League pennant with a 7–6 win over the Hartford Dark Blues. | [7][10] |
October 23 | Chicago | | The Chicago Tribune published the year-end player statistics, one of which would be the newly created, batting average; the first known instance of this statistic being published. | [7] |
December 10 | Cleveland | | During the NL's Winter Meetings, it was announced that William Hulbert was elected President of the league, and that the Philadelphia Athletics and the New York Mutuals were expelled for failure to complete their required schedule in the 1876 season. | [24] |
Transactions
Free agents
Loans
Births
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 |
See also
References
- General
- Ginsburg, Daniel E. (2004). The Fix Is in: A History of Baseball Gambling and Game Fixing Scandals. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-1920-2.
- Reiss, Steven A. (2006) Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs, Volume 1. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-32991-5.
- Specific
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