1875 in baseball: Difference between revisions

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*[[National Association of Professional Base Ball Players|National Association]]: [[History of the Boston Braves|Boston Base Ball Club]]

| 2ndstyle="text-align:left;" || [[1875 Philadelphia Athletics season|Philadelphia Athletics]] || 53 || 20 || 4 || 15.0 || .714

| 4thstyle="text-align:left;" || [[1875 St.New LouisHaven BrownElm StockingsCitys season|St.New LouisHaven BrownElm StockingsCitys]] || 7 || 40 || – || 48.0 || .149

| 5thstyle="text-align:left;" || [[1875 Philadelphia White StockingsCentennials season|Philadelphia White StockingsCentennials]] || 2 || 12|| – || 36.5 || .143

| [[Batting average (baseball)|AVG]] || [[Deacon White]] [[AtlantaBoston Braves|BOS]] || .367 ||

| [[Home run|HR]] || [[Jim O'Rourke (baseball)|Jim O'Rourke]] [[AtlantaBoston Braves|BOS]] || 6 ||

| [[Run batted in|RBI]] || [[Cal McVey]] [[AtlantaBoston Braves|BOS]] || 87 ||

| [[Win (baseball)|Wins]] || [[AlbertAl Spalding]] [[AtlantaBoston Braves|BOS]] || 5554 ||

| [[Earned run average|ERA]] || [[AlbertAl Spalding]] [[AtlantaBoston Braves|BOS]] || 1.5259 ||

| [[Strikeout]]s || [[FrankCandy FleetCummings]] [[St.Hartford LouisDark Brown Stockings|STL]]/[[Brooklyn AtlanticsBlues|BRAHAR]] || 2682 ||

*May 3 – The [[Hartford Dark Blues|Hartfords]] are caught using an illegal bat which had been whittled nearly flat on one side and painted black to conceal the altering. The bat is thrown out and the Dark BluesHartford gogoes on to win the game.

*May 5 – The [[Washington Nationals (NA)|National of Washington Nationals]] givegives up 20+ runs for the 5th consecutive game.

*May 11 – The [[St. Louis (NA)|St. LouisRed Stockings|Red Stockings]] of St. Louis fall to the [[ChicagoHistory Whiteof Stockingsthe (1870–89)|Chicago Cubs#Chicago White Stockings/Chicago Colts|Chicagos]] 1-01–0, the lowest scoring game ever at the time.

*May 21 – Only 10 days after it happened for the first time, the NA sees its second 1-01–0 game as [[Candy Cummings]] of the [[Hartford Dark Blues|Hartford]] outduels [[Bobby Mathews]] of the [[New York Mutuals|Mutual]].

*May 22 – [[Pud Galvin]] makes his debut with the [[St. Louis Brown Stockings|St. Louis Club]]. Galvin will only pitch in 8 games for St. Louis and will not be seen in the major leagues again until 1879.

*July 20 – [[Harry Wright]] learns that [[Albert Spalding]], [[Deacon White]], [[Ross Barnes]] and [[Cal McVey]] will jump to the [[ChicagoHistory Whiteof Stockingsthe (1870–89)|Chicago Cubs#Chicago White Stockings/Chicago Colts|Chicago]] for the 1876 season. The [[Chicago Tribune]] reports that Wright will return to [[Cincinnati]] to start a new team.

*July 21 – [[Joe Start]] of the [[New York Mutuals|Mutual]] hits 3 home runs and a triple in a Mutuals victory.

*July 28 – [[Joe Borden]] of the [[Philadelphia White Stockings]] pitched professional baseball's first no-hitter in defeating [[History of the [[Chicago Cubs#Chicago White Stockings/Chicago (1870–89)Colts|Chicago White Stockings]] 4-04–0.

*September 6 – The [[History of the Boston Braves|Boston Red StockingsBostons]] win their 4th pennant in a row roughly 6 weeks sooner than they had in the previous 3 seasons. TheBoston Red Stockings clinchclinches with 16 games left to play onin theirthe schedule.

*September 11 – The first professional women's game is played in [[Springfield, Illinois]] on a half-sized field. The "Blondes" defeat the "Brunettes" 42-3842–38.

*September 24 – [[George Gage (baseball executive)|George Gage]], President of the [[History of the Chicago Cubs#Chicago White Stockings/Chicago (1870–89)Colts|Chicago WhiteBase StockingsBall Club]], passes away after suffering a stroke. [[William Hulbert]] will take over the team and drive the final nail in the NA's coffin by starting the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] during the off-season.

*September 25 – [[Paul Hines]] commits 10 errors at 2nd base for the [[ChicagoHistory Whiteof Stockingsthe (1870–89)|Chicago Cubs#Chicago White Stockings/Chicago Colts|Chicago]] in a loss.

*October 10 – At a meeting of [[History of the Chicago Cubs#Chicago White Stockings/Chicago (1870–89)Colts|Chicago WhiteBase StockingsBall Club]] stockholders, [[William Hulbert]] uses a proxy from the widow of the deceased [[George Gage (baseball executive)|George Gage]] to declare himself President of the team. He names [[Albert Spalding]] as Secretary.

*October 30 – The [[History of the Boston Braves|Boston Red Stockings]] defeat thedefeats [[Hartford Dark Blues|Hartford]] 7-47–4 in what proves to be the final game in the history of the NA. The Red StockingsBostons claim the last 4 pennants in increasingly dominating fashion after the [[Athletic of Philadelphia|Philadelphia Athletics]] win the inaugural flag in 1871.

*February 1 – [[Billy Sullivan (baseball, born 1875)|Billy Sullivan]]

*February 14 – [[Charlie Hodes]], 26?, catcher/utility player from 1871–18741871 to 1874.

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