Baseball

9/23 — Кнickerbockers Baseball Club, первая бейсбольная команда, играющая по современным правилам, была основана в Нью-Йорке.

10/1 — Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

5/5 — Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

4/20 — Открытие дня для бейсбольного стадиона 'Tiger Stadium' в Детройте и парка 'Fenway Park' в Бостоне.

4/23 — First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.

8/11 — Бейб Рут становится первым бейсболистом, который забил 500 хомеров в своей карьере, забив хомер в Лиговом парке в Кливленде, Огайо.

7/4 — Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.

6/10 — In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.

2/20 — Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.

4/9 — Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.

4/8 — Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

9/26 — Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.

4/21 — Бейсбол: Ролли Фингер из клуба Милуоки Брейерс становится первым питчером, записавшим 300 сохранений.

9/12 — Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.

9/11 — Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.

8/24 — Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.

4/17 — Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter and inventor of baseball (d. 1892)

7/12 — Александр Картрайт, американский пожарный,发明了棒球（р. 1820)