1898 In Baseball
Champions *National League: Boston Beaneaters National League final standings National League statistical leaders *Batting average: Willie Keeler – .385 *Home runs: Jimmy Collins – 15 *Runs batted in: Nap Lajoie – 127 *Wins: Kid Nichols – 31 *Earned run average: Clark Griffith – 1.88 *Strikeouts: Cy Seymour – 239 Events *April 3 – Jack Clements, now with St. Louis, is the first southpaw to catch in 1,000 MLB games. *April 21 – 1898 Philadelphia Phillies season, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam (baseball), grand slam in his first major league at-bat. No one else will accomplish that feat until Jeremy Hermida in . *April 22 – This day in baseball would see two no-hitters. First, Ted Breitenstein would throw the second no-hitter of his career, as the 1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Cincinnati Reds would defeat the 1898 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Pittsburgh Pirates, 11–0. Meanwhile, Jay Hughes would toss a no-hitter for the 1898 Balti ...
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National League
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP) of 1871–1875 (often called simply the "National Association"), the NL is sometimes called the Senior Circuit, in contrast to MLB's other league, the American League, which was founded 25 years later and is called the "Junior Circuit". Both leagues currently have 15 teams. After two years of conflict in a "baseball war" of 1901–1902, the two eight-team leagues agreed in a "peace pact" to recognize each other as "major leagues". As part of this agreement, they drafted rules regarding player contracts, prohibiting "raiding" of rosters, and regulating relationships with minor leagues and lower level clubs. Each leag ...
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