Baseball
National championship
- National Association of Base Ball Players champion – Brooklyn Atlantics
Events
- National Association membership triples and geographic scope explodes, from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to Portland, Maine. The association hears cases of professionalism at the center and there is no longer a clear and official NABBP champion.
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