1892 in baseball

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

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See also

Baseball Major League Baseball Minor league baseball Negro league baseball Nippon Professional Baseball 1892 in sports

Sources

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

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 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

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

[edit] Births

• January 16 - Fred Bratschi
• February 4 - Eddie Ainsmith
• February 17 - Nemo Leibold
• February 20 - John Donaldson
• February 24 - Wilbur Cooper
• April 16 - Dutch Leonard
• April 19 - Dave Black
• May 3 - Del Baker
• May 4 - Jack Tobin
• May 9 - Mickey Devine
• May 25 - Doug Smith
• June 4 - Paul Maloy
• June 10 - Frank Gilhooley
• July 13 - Eusebio González
• July 26 - Sad Sam Jones
• July 31 - Art Nehf
• August 12 - Ray Schalk
• August 26 - Jesse Barnes
• September 9 - Mike McNally
• September 21 - Elmer Smith
• October 22 - Norm McNeil
• November 19 - Everett Scott
• November 27 - Bullet Joe Bush
• December 14 - Rudy Kallio
• December 19 - Fred Thomas

[edit] Deaths

• January 14 - Silver Flint, 36, catcher with the Chicago White Stockings for eleven seasons who batted .310 for 1881 champions
• 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