The following are the baseball events of the year 1899 throughout the world.  

Contents 1 Champions 2 National League final standings 3 Events 4 Births 4.1 January-March 4.2 April-June 4.3 July-September 4.4 October-December 5 Deaths

[edit] Champions

• National League: Brooklyn Superbas

[edit] National League final standings

National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Brooklyn Superbas	101	47	.682	--
Boston Beaneaters	95	57	.625	8
Philadelphia Phillies	94	58	.618	9
Baltimore Orioles	86	62	.581	15
St. Louis Perfectos	84	67	.556	18.5
Cincinnati Red Legs	83	67	.553	19
Pittsburgh Pirates	76	73	.510	25.5
Chicago Orphans	75	73	.507	26
Louisville Colonels	75	77	.493	28
New York Giants	60	90	.400	42
Washington Senators	54	98	.355	49
Cleveland Spiders	20	134	.130	84

[edit] Events

• May 25 - Deacon Phillippe of the Louisville Colonels pitches a no-hitter against the New York Giants in a 7-0 victory.

• August 7 - Boston Beaneaters pitcher Vic Willis leads his team to a 7-1 victory by throwing a no-hitter against the Washington Senators.

• Buck Freeman scored 25 home runs during the 1899 season; the second highest total was Bobby Wallace with 12. Although Freeman failed to equal Ned Williamson's record of 27 home runs in a season, recorded in 1884, Freeman's total is generally regarded as the greater achievement owing to the dimensions of Williamson's home ballpark of Lakeshore Park (of Williamson's 27 homers, only 2 were scored away from home). Freeman's tally was not surpassed until 1919, when Babe Ruth scored 29 home runs with the Boston Red Sox.

• Following the season, the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Spiders, Louisville Colonels and Washington Senators were all dropped by the National League, reducing the number of teams in the NL for 1900 to eight. The NL would remain at eight teams until the 1962 season.

[edit] Births

[edit] January-March

• January 3 - Buzz Arlett
• January 11 - Alvin Crowder
• January 12 - Joe Hauser
• January 18 - Eddie Moore
• January 21 - Lew Fonseca
• January 23 - Bill Regan
• January 27 - Bob Barrett
• January 27 - Bibb Falk
• February 7 - Earl Whitehill
• February 9 - Specs Toporcer
• February 24 - Pinky Pittenger
• February 28 - Lil Stoner
• March 1 - Ernie Padgett
• March 17 - Charlie Root
• March 30 - Hal Rhyne

[edit] April-June

• April 5 - Tony Welzer
• April 12 - Trader Horne
• April 18 - Bill Bayne
• May 10 - Freddie Maguire
• May 14 - Earle Combs
• May 25- Hal Elliott
• June 2 - Sloppy Thurston
• June 3 - Urbane Pickering
• June 7 - Lafayette Henion

[edit] July-September

• July 12 - Walter French
• July 19 - Joe Kiefer
• July 27 - Jim Faulkner
• July 29 - Walter Beall
• August 1 - Joe Shaute
• August 4 - Oscar Melillo
• August 5 - Sam Gibson
• August 7 - Ted Wingfield
• August 11 - Frank Brazill
• August 14 - Skinny Graham
• August 18 - Bernie Friberg
• August 22 - Dud Lee
• August 25 - Pea Ridge Day
• September 5 - Max Bishop
• September 6 - Del Bissonette
• September 7 - Clarence Winters
• September 9 - Waite Hoyt
• September 15 - Harry McCurdy
• September 16 - Heinie Mueller
• September 17 - Sheriff Blake
• September 20- Nelson Greene
• September 21 - Del Lundgren
• September 25 - Hoge Workman

[edit] October-December

• October 11 - Eddie Dyer
• October 24 - Cuckoo Christensen
• October 28 - Percy Jones
• October 26 - Judy Johnson
• November 6 - Joe Munson
• November 30 - Reuben Ewing
• December 2 - Ray Morehart
• December 6 - Jocko Conlan
• December 7 - Ed Morris
• December 10 - Jake Hehl
• December 20 - George Pipgras
• December 23 - Tommy Thomas
• December 26 - Logan Drake

[edit] Deaths

• January 6 - John Smith, 40?, first baseman for two teams in 1882.
• March 9 - Bill McGunnigle, 44, manager who led Brooklyn to the American Association title in 1889, and the NL pennant the following year after the team switched leagues; as collegiate catcher, was possibly the first at that position to wear a glove
• December 16 - Fred Waterman, 54, third baseman, member of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings team that went undefeated.

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