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

The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs was formed in 1876 to replace the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which folded following the 1875 season. The initial National League season began with eight teams, and they were asked to play seventy games between April 22 and October 21.^[1]

Contents 1 Champions 2 Major league baseball final standings 3 Statistical leaders 4 Events 4.1 January-March 4.2 April-June 4.3 July-September 4.4 October-December 5 Transactions 5.1 Free agents 5.2 Loans 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Champions

• National League: Chicago White Stockings

[edit] Major league baseball final standings

National League[2]
Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
1st	Chicago White Stockings	52	14	.788	--
2nd	Hartford Dark Blues	47	21	.691	6.0
3rd	St. Louis Brown Stockings	45	19	.703	6.0
4th	Boston Red Caps	39	31	.557	15.0
5th	Louisville Grays	30	36	.455	22.0
6th	New York Mutuals	21	35	.375	26.0
7th	Philadelphia Athletics	14	45	.237	34.5
8th	Cincinnati Reds	9	56	.138	42.5

[edit] Statistical leaders

National League[3]
Type	Name	Stat
AVG	Ross Barnes CHC	.429
HR	George Hall ATH	5
RBI	Deacon White CHC	60
Wins	Albert Spalding CHC	47
ERA	George Bradley STL	1.23
Strikeouts	Jim Devlin LOU	122

[edit] Events

[edit] 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.

[edit] April-June

• April 22 - Joe Borden of the Boston Red Caps, who pitched the first no-hitter in professional history in 1875, is the winning pitcher in the first game to be played in the new National League as Boston scores two runs in the ninth 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 ended in a tie two to two, for the first tied game in Major League history.
• May 30 - The visiting Chicago White Stockings play at South End Grounds with four players raided from the Boston Red Caps in the off-season, in front of an estimated 14,000 Boston fans. At the time, it was the largest crowd ever to attend a baseball game, which sees Chicago take a 5-1 victory.
• June 14 - George Hall and Ezra Sutton of the Philadelphia Athletics each hit three 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Transactions

[edit] Free agents

• Chicago White Stockings signed Cap Anson as a free agent.^[4]
• Hartford Dark Blues signed Candy Cummings as a free agent.^[4]
• Boston Red Caps signed George Wright as a free agent.^[4]

[edit] Loans

• August 10, 1876 - The New York Mutuals loaned Nealy Phelps to the Philadelphia Athletics. Phelps returned to the Mutuals on the same day.^[4]

[edit] Births

January 1 - Joe Kostal January 1 - Joe Martin January 11 - Elmer Flick January 12 - George Browne January 14 - Bill Wolfe January 22 - Warren McLaughlin January 25 - Fred Glade January 27 - Otis Clymer February - Ike Van Zandt February 4 - Germany Schaefer February 6 - Andy Sommerville February 7 - Pat Moran February 10 - Doc Sechrist February 13 - Fred Buckingham February 13 - Fritz Buelow February 15 - Carlton Molesworth February 19 - Joe Marshall February 21 - John Titus February 27 - Art Goodwin March 15 - Bill Hallman March 17 - Daff Gammons March 29 - Harry Lochhead March 29 - Frank Oberlin April - Art Ball April 1 - Bill Friel April 5 - Bill Dinneen April 6 - Charlie Luskey April 6 - Frank Murphy April 11 - Win Kellum April 12 - Vic Willis April 20 - Charlie Hemphill

April 29 - Pat Deisel May 1 - Larry Battam May 2 - Jack Morrissey May 4 - Charlie Hickman May 4 - Dave Murphy May 5 - Frank Morrissey May 7 - Casey Patten May 16 - George Barclay May 24 - Fred Jacklitsch June 2 - Charlie Jones June 5 - Offa Neal June 7 - Barney Wolfe June 10 - George Prentiss June 13 - Gene McCann June 15 - Charlie Dexter June 19 - John Hinton June 21 - Billy Gilbert June 24 - Bill Hanlon June 29 - Patsy Flaherty July 1 - Jim Buchanan July 3 - Ralph Frary July 7 - Happy Iott July 10 - John Puhl July 23 - Ginger Beaumont July 23 - Harry Mathews July 26 - Sam Breadon[5] July 27 - Moose Baxter July 29 - Emmet Heidrick August 2 - Kid Nance August 7 - Pat Carney August 7 - Lou Nordyke

August 11 - Danny Murphy August 18 - Gus Dorner August 24 - John Brown August 24 - Frank Quinn August 28 - Doc Hazleton August 29 - Elmer Stricklett September 1 - Jimmy Wiggs September 3 - Jerry Donovan September 3 - Dusty Miller September 3 - George Stone September 5 - Pete LePine September 9 - Frank Chance September 15 - Nick Altrock September 17 - Otto Krueger September 27 - Stephen Cusack September 28 - Frank Bates September 28 - Red Long October 13 - Wild Bill Donovan October 13 - Rube Waddell October 15 - Percy Coleman October 19 - Mordecai Brown October 27 - Patsy Dougherty October 31 - Ed Fisher November 3 - Phil Geier November 3 - Ike Rockenfield November 6 - Dave Altizer November 6 - Danny Green November 8 - Danny Shay November 9 - Judge McCredie November 12 - Ed Killian November 12 - Solly Salisbury

November 14 - Harry Howell November 17 - Claud Elliot November 24 - Harvey Bailey November 25 - Lou Castro November 28 - Lee Fohl December 2 - Roscoe Miller December 4 - John Farrell December 4 - Henry Krug December 12 - Joe Rickert December 13 - Rube Kisinger December 16 - Fred Crolius December 16 - Sammy Strang December 17 - Roy Patterson December 20 - Jimmy Williams December 25 - Jim Jones December 27 - Charlie Carr December 27 - Sam Woodruff

• Unless otherwise noted, all birth dates as reported by Retrosheet.^[6]

[edit] Deaths

• May 29 - Tom Miller, 25 or 26, catcher from 1874 to 1875.^[7]
• October 18 - Bub McAtee, 31, first baseman for the 1871 Chicago White Stockings and the 1872 Troy Haymakers.^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• 1876 season at baseball-reference.com
• Charlton's Baseball Chronology at BaseballLibrary.com
• Year by Year History at Baseball-Almanac.com
• Retrosheet.org

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