1880s – Page 5 – Society for American Baseball Research

September 4, 1888: The Little Steam Engine That Could: Pud Galvin’s 300th victory

October 16, 1888: Tim Keefe leads Giants to tense victory in Game One

February 9, 1889: A Wondrous Ball Park: The Pyramid Game in Giza, Egypt

Pete Browning (TRADING CARD DB)

June 7, 1889: Louisville’s Pete Browning hits for second career cycle

Chris Fulmer

June 17, 1889: George Goetz’s only major-league win extends Louisville’s losing streak to 21

June 22, 1889: Sad-sack Louisville Colonels lose 26th game in a row

Lefty Marr (Trading Card DB)

July 6, 1889: Columbus starts lefties at second base, third base, and shortstop in loss to St. Louis

July 27, 1889: Harry Raymond’s wild win

1887-88 photo of Jacob White Eyes as an 18-year-old student of the Educational Home for Boys, by John N. Choate, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

July 30, 1889: Hazleton’s Jacob White Eyes competes in pitchers’ duel in Harrisburg

Jack Glasscock (Trading Card DB)

August 8, 1889: Giants lose uniforms and game as Jack Glasscock hits for only cycle in Hoosiers history

August 15, 1889: Larry Twitchell records 16 total bases, hits for cycle, and pitches in Cleveland blowout of Boston

August 16, 1889: Integrated baseball in Pennsylvania: Cuban Giants defeat Lebanon Grays

August 23, 1889: Kid Nichols and Omaha White Sox edge Sioux City on Ladies’ Day

August 26, 1889: Extra baseball, a free fight, and a protest in Philadelphia

September 7, 1889: The Candlelight Game

October 2, 1889: King Kelly’s Downfall

October 5, 1889: The Giants win the pennant on the last day

October 18, 1889: Genesis of a rivalry: Brooklyn vs. New York

October 29, 1889: Giants win back-to-back World’s Series