The following are the baseball events of the year 1894 throughout the world.  

Contents 1 Champions 2 National League final standings 3 Events 4 Births 4.1 January-April 4.2 May-August 4.3 September-December 5 Deaths

[edit] Champions

• Temple Cup: New York Giants defeated Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 0
• National League: Baltimore Orioles

[edit] National League final standings

National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Baltimore Orioles	89	39	.695	--
New York Giants	88	44	.667	3
Boston Beaneaters	83	49	.629	8
Philadelphia Phillies	71	57	.555	18
Brooklyn Grooms	70	61	.534	20.5
Cleveland Spiders	68	61	.527	21.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	65	65	.500	25
Chicago Colts	57	75	.432	34
St. Louis Browns	56	76	.424	35
Cincinnati Reds	55	75	.423	35
Washington Senators	45	87	.341	46
Louisville Colonels	36	94	.277	54

[edit] Events

• May 30 - Second baseman Bobby Lowe of the Boston Beaneaters becomes the first player in Major league history to hit four home runs in a game, hitting two in a nine-run 3rd inning. Boston tops the Cincinnati Reds, 20-11.

[edit] Births

[edit] January-April

• January 1 - Hack Miller
• January 18 - Danny Clark
• February 10 - Herb Pennock
• February 28 - Jud Wilson
• March 7 - Frank Gleich
• March 7 - Merwin Jacobson
• March 19 - Bill Wambsganss
• April 19 - John Donahue
• April 24 - Howard Ehmke

[edit] May-August

• May 16 - Paddy Smith
• May 25 - Joe Judge
• May 30 - Al Mamaux
• June 10 - Fred Hofmann
• July 18 - Carl Stimson
• June 27 - Red Bluhm
• June 27 - Joe Connolly
• July 12 - Lee Meadows
• August 3 - Harry Heilmann
• August 4 - Jim Grant
• August 24 - Jimmy Cooney
• August 25 - Buzz Wetzel
• August 26 - Sparky Adams
• August 27 - Eddie Mulligan
• August 30 - Bing Miller

[edit] September-December

• September 24 - Otto Neu
• October 11 - Gary Fortune
• October 13 - Swede Risberg
• October 16 - Mike Menosky
• October 23 - Rube Bressler
• October 28 - John Bischoff
• November 13 - Ernie Neitzke
• November 23 - Jesse Petty
• November 28 -Frank O'Rourke
• December 5 - Philip K. Wrigley
• December 14 - Jim Joe Edwards
• December 19 - Ford Frick
• December 20 - Butch Henline

[edit] Deaths

• February 28 - Edgar McNabb, 28, pitcher for one Major League season, the 1893 Baltimore Orioles.
• March 3 - Ned Williamson, 36, third baseman and shortstop for the Chicago White Stockings who set single-season records with 49 doubles in 1883, 27 home runs in 1884; led NL in assists seven times and double plays six times.
• May 3 - Bob Ferguson, 49, infielder and manager of eight teams, sport's first switch-hitter, nicknamed "Death to Flying Things" for defensive skill; captained 1870 team which defeated Cincinnati Red Stockings after 84 straight wins, president of Nat'l Ass'n from 1872-75, set record for career games as umpire.
• August 28 - Gracie Pierce, ?, second baseman and outfielder for three seasons from 1882 to 1884, later umpired in the National League and the Players League.
• September 16 - Terry Larkin, ?, troubled pitcher who won 89 games in a 3 year span in the National League from 1877-1879, commits suicide by slitting his throat with a razor.
• November 2 - Alamazoo Jennings, 43, catcher for one game with the 1878 Milwaukee Grays.
• November 8 - King Kelly, 36, catcher and right fielder for Chicago and Boston who batted .308 lifetime with two batting titles; led NL in runs and doubles three times each, was fourth player to collect 1500 hits; starred on five Chicago champions, managed Boston to 1890 Players League title; fiery and alert competitor developed the hit-and-run, caused numerous refinements of sport's rules upon his exploitation of loopholes.
• November 16 - Ed Conley, 30, pitcher for the 1884 Providence Grays.

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