1904 in Sports - Baseball

Baseball

World Series

  • NL champion New York Giants refuses to participate in the 1904 World Series. Boston Americans repeat as American League champions.

Events

  • 5 May — Cy Young of Boston Americans pitches a perfect game, the second of his three no-hitters. He goes on to complete 24 hitless innings, still the record, and 45 scoreless innings, a record broken by Jack Coombs in 1910
  • Duluth White Sox wins the Northern League championship

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