Baseball
National championship
- National Association of Professional Base Ball Players champion – Philadelphia Athletics
Events
- March — ten NABBP clubs found the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, the first professional sports league. (Today it is commonly considered the first major league and usually called simply the "National Association" or "NA".) Thirty-three clubs establish a parallel amateur NAABBP that withers away.
- There are nine NA teams in the field and Athletic of Philadelphia wins the championship
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