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The following are the baseball events of the year 1892 throughout the world.  

Contents 1 Champions 2 National League final standings 2.1 First half of season 2.2 Second half of season 2.3 Overall record 3 Events 4 Births 4.1 January-February 4.2 March-April 4.3 May-June 4.4 July-August 4.5 September-October 4.6 November-December 5 Deaths

[edit] Champions

• National League: Boston Beaneaters defeated Cleveland Spiders, 5 games to 0 (1 tie)

[edit] National League final standings

[edit] First half of season

National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Boston Beaneaters	52	22	.702	--
Brooklyn Grooms	51	26	.662	2.5
Philadelphia Phillies	46	30	.605	7
Cincinnati Reds	44	31	.587	8.5
Cleveland Spiders	40	33	.548	11.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	37	39	.487	16
Washington Senators	35	41	.461	18
Chicago Colts	31	39	.443	19
St. Louis Browns	31	42	.425	20.5
New York Giants	31	43	.419	21
Louisville Colonels	30	47	.390	25.5
Baltimore Orioles	20	55	.267	34.5

[edit] Second half of season

National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Cleveland Spiders	53	23	.697	--
Boston Beaneaters	50	26	.658	3
Brooklyn Grooms	44	33	.571	9.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	43	34	.558	10.5
Philadelphia Phillies	41	36	.532	12.5
New York Giants	40	37	.519	13.5
Chicago Colts	39	37	.513	14
Cincinnati Reds	38	37	.507	14.5
Louisville Colonels	33	42	.440	19.5
Baltimore Orioles	26	46	.361	25
St. Louis Browns	25	52	.325	28.5
Washington Senators	23	52	.307	29.5

[edit] Overall record

National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Boston Beaneaters	102	48	.680	--
Cleveland Spiders	93	56	.624	8.5
Brooklyn Grooms	95	59	.617	9
Philadelphia Phillies	87	66	.569	16.5
Cincinnati Reds	82	68	.547	20
Pittsburgh Pirates	80	73	.523	23.5
Chicago Colts	70	76	.479	30
New York Giants	71	80	.470	31.5
Louisville Colonels	63	89	.414	40
Washington Senators	58	93	.384	44.5
St. Louis Browns	56	94	.373	46
Baltimore Orioles	46	101	.313	54.5

[edit] Events

• March 4 - Following the collapse of the American Association, the National League holds its first meeting. They decide to split 1892 into two "championship series".

• June 2 - Benjamin Harrison becomes the first president to attend a game while in office when he watched the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Washington Senators 7-4 in 11 innings.

• August 6 - Jack Stivetts throws a no-hitter for the Boston Beaneaters in an 11-0 victory over the Brooklyn Grooms.

• August 22 - Louisville Colonels pitcher Ben Sanders hurls a no-hitter in a 6-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles.

• September 21 - John Clarkson of the Cleveland Spiders records his 300th career win.

• October 15 - On the last day of the season, Bumpus Jones of the Cincinnati Reds makes his major league debut with a 7-1 no-hitter against Pittsburgh, becoming the second pitcher to hurl a no-hitter in his first start.

• October 17 - The first-half champion Boston Beaneaters and second-half champion Cleveland Spiders begin a five-game series to determine the overall championship. The first game, pitched by Jack Stivetts for the Beaneaters and Cy Young for the Spiders, ends in a 0-0 tie after 11 innings.

• October 24 - The Boston Beaneaters complete a 5-0 sweep of the Cleveland Spiders to win the championship.

• November 1 - Statistics for the first 154-game season show that Dan Brouthers of the Brooklyn Grooms was the top hitter with a .335 batting average, and Cy Young of the Cleveland Spiders the best pitcher with a 36-11 record and a .766 winning percentage.

• November 17 - National League magnates conclude a four-day meeting in Chicago where they agree to shorten the 1893 schedule to 132 games and drop the double championship concept. They also pledge to continue to reduce player salaries and other team expenses.

[edit] Births

[edit] January-February

• January 2 - George Boehler
• January 2 - Jack Kibble
• January 2 - Merlin Kopp
• January 3 - Roland Howell
• January 4 - Charlie Miller
• January 5 - Chuck Wortman
• January 16 - Fred Bratschi
• January 17 - Roy Grover
• January 21 - Bernie Boland
• January 31 - Steamboat Williams
• February 1 - Dixie McArthur
• February 1 - Tom McGuire
• February 4 - Eddie Ainsmith
• February 4 - Rollie Naylor
• February 6 - Goldie Rapp
• February 8 - Manuel Cueto
• February 12 - Tom Rogers
• February 15 - Al Braithwood
• February 16 - Ed Schorr
• February 17 - Fred Brainard
• February 17 - Nemo Leibold
• February 18 - John Gallagher
• February 19 - Weldon Wyckoff
• February 20 - John Donaldson
• February 22 - Doc Waldbauer
• February 24 - Wilbur Cooper
• February 26 - Harry Weaver
• February 29 - Ed Appleton

[edit] March-April

• March 6 - Chick Davies
• March 6 - George Mohart
• March 10 - Emil Huhn
• March 12 - Bill James
• March 12 - George Maisel
• March 13 - Chippy Gaw
• March 13 - Patsy Gharrity
• March 21 - Bill Stumpf
• March 22 - Lew Wendell
• March 29 - Harry McCluskey
• April 1 - Claude Cooper
• April 3 - Harry Kingman
• April 11 - Ray Gordinier
• April 11 - Red Smith
• April 13 - Pat Martin
• April 16 - Dutch Leonard
• April 17 - Morrie Schick
• April 18 - Jack Scott
• April 19 - Dave Black
• April 19 - Bugs Morris
• April 19 - Chick Shorten
• April 22 - Ferd Eunick

[edit] May-June

• May 3 - Del Baker
• May 4 - Zip Collins
• May 4 - Jack Tobin
• May 4 - Ted Turner
• May 7 - Allan Travers
• May 9 - Mickey Devine
• May 14 - Bruce Hartford
• May 17 - Hal Carlson
• May 18 - Bill Batsch
• May 19 - Jim Hickman
• May 23 - Pop-Boy Smith
• May 23 - Luke Stuart
• May 24 - Oscar Harstad
• May 24 - Joe Oeschger
• May 25 - Doug Smith
• May 31 - George Smith
• June 1 - Ty Tyson
• June 3 - Howard Lohr
• June 4 - Herb Kelly
• June 4 - Paul Maloy
• June 4 - George Twombly
• June 6 - Joe Pate
• June 10 - Frank Gilhooley
• June 11 - Clarence Woods
• June 11 - Archie Yelle
• June 16 - Jack Farrell
• June 19 - Harry Daubert
• June 22 - John Mercer
• June 24 - Howard Fahey
• June 24 - George Harper
• June 27 - George Ross

[edit] July-August

• July 3 - Bunny Brief
• July 13 - Eusebio González
• July 14 - Jack Farmer
• July 15 - Bubbles Hargrave
• July 26 - Sad Sam Jones
• July 31 - Erv Kantlehner
• July 31 - Art Nehf
• July 31 - Mutt Williams
• August 1 - Roy Sanders
• August 5 - Fred Ostendorf
• August 10 - Elmer Jacobs
• August 12 - Ray Schalk
• August 16 - Bill Keen
• August 17 - Johnny Rawlings
• August 19 - Rags Faircloth
• August 25 - Tony Boeckel
• August 25 - Johnny Jones
• August 26 - Jesse Barnes
• August 27 - Hal Janvrin
• August 28 - Braggo Roth
• August 29 - Roy Wood

[edit] September-October

• September 5 - Cap Crowell
• September 7 - Ginger Shinault
• September 9 - Tiny Graham
• September 11 - Ernie Koob
• September 15 - Harry Lunte
• September 17 - Tommy Taylor
• September 21 - Elmer Smith
• October 3 - Jack Richardson
• October 4 - Delos Brown
• October 7 - Adam Debus
• October 8 - Harry Baumgartner
• October 9 - Arnie Stone
• October 10 - Rich Durning
• October 12 - Rupert Mills
• October 13 - Chris Burkam
• October 17 - Frank Madden
• October 17 - Ted Welch
• October 18 - Coonie Blank
• October 18 - Bill Johnson
• October 19 - Michael Driscoll
• October 22 - Norm McNeil
• October 24 - Dick Niehaus
• October 28 - Bill McCabe
• October 31 - Ray O'Brien

[edit] November-December

• November 1 - Earl Blackburn
• November 1 - Lefty York
• November 5 - Flame Delhi
• November 5 - Yam Yaryan
• November 5 - Roxy Walters
• November 10 - Jim Park
• November 11 - Al Schacht
• November 17 - Don Flinn
• November 17 - Gene Steinbrenner
• November 18 - Pedro Dibut
• November 18 - Les Mann
• November 18 - Harry Trekell
• November 19 - Everett Scott
• November 20 - Harry O'Neill
• November 22 - Pi Schwert
• November 24 - Harry Wolfe
• November 27 - Bullet Joe Bush
• November 30 - Josh Billings
• December 1 - George Dickerson
• December 1 - Dean Sturgis
• December 2 - Chick Smith
• December 4 - Johnny Meador
• December 8 - Walt Johnson
• December 13 - Pete Bigler
• December 14 - Rudy Kallio
• December 16 - Scrappy Moore
• December 19 - Fred Thomas
• December 20 - Deacon Jones
• December 25 - Walter Holke
• December 25 - Karl Kolseth
• December 26 - Lee King
• December 30 - Tom Connolly

[edit] Deaths

• January 14 - Silver Flint, 36, catcher with the Chicago White Stockings for eleven seasons who batted .310 for 1881 champions
• March 11 - Cinders O'Brien, 24, pitcher for four seasons. Won 22 games for the 1889 Cleveland Spiders.
• April 18 - Ned Bligh, 27, catcher for four seasons, died of Typhoid fever.
• May 21 - Hub Collins, 28, second baseman for the 1889-90 champion Brooklyn teams who led league in doubles and runs once each
• July 12 - Alexander Cartwright, 72, pioneer of the sport who formulated the first rules in 1845, developing a new sport for adults out of various existing playground games; established distance between bases at 90 feet, introduced concept of foul territory, set the number of players at nine per team, and fixed the number of outs at three per side and innings at nine; founded Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the sport's first organized club, in New York City, and spread the sport across the nation into the 1850s
• November 3 - Edgar Smith, 30, played in four seasons with four different teams from 1883 to 1885, and 1890.
• December 20 - John Fitzgerald, 26, pitcher for the 1890 Rochester Broncos

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