1876 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1876 throughout the world.  

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See also

Baseball Major League Baseball Minor league baseball Negro league baseball Japanese baseball 1876 in sports

Sources

[Baseball Hall of Fame] [Baseball Almanac] [Baseball Library] [Baseball Reference] [National Pastime] [The Deadball Era]

Event of the year

The first professional baseball league is formed.

Champions

• National League: Chicago White Stockings

Major League Baseball final standings

National League
Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
1st	Chicago White Stockings	52	14	.788	--
2nd	St. Louis Brown Stockings	45	19	.703	6.0
3rd	Hartford Dark Blues	47	21	.691	6.0
4th	Boston Red Caps	39	31	.557	15.0
5th	Louisville Grays	31	36	.455	22.0
6th	New York Mutuals	21	35	.375	26.0
7th	Philadelphia Athletics	14	45	.237	34.5
8th	Cincinnati Red Stockings	9	56	.138	42.5

* The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs was formed in 1876 with the eight teams listed above. The schedule was set at seventy games between April 22 and October 21.

Events

• February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs is formed at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois; it will replace the disbanding National Association of Professional Baseball Players.

• 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 25 - The Philadelphia Athletics and Louisville Grays tie 2-2, the first tie in major league history.

• June 14 - George Hall of the Philadelphia Athletics became the first major league player to hit for the cycle (a home run, a triple, a double, and a single in the same game).

• July 15 - George Bradley of the St. Louis Brown Stockings pitches the first no-hitter in major league history against the Hartford Dark Blues.

• October 23 - The statistic batting average is created by the Chicago Tribune.

Births

• January 11 - Elmer Flick
• February 7 - Pat Moran
• April 5 - Bill Dinneen
• April 12 - Vic Willis
• July 23 - Ginger Beaumont
• July 26 - Sam Breadon
• August 11 - Danny Murphy
• September 15 - Nick Altrock
• October 13 - Bill Donovan
• October 13 - Rube Waddell
• October 19 - Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown
• October 27 - Patsy Dougherty
• November 9 - Moonlight Graham
• November 12 - Ed Killian
• December 20 - Jimmy Williams

Deaths

• October 18 - Bub McAtee, 31, first baseman for the 1871 Chicago White Stockings and 1872 Troy Haymakers

 

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