July 14, 1887: The color line is drawn in baseball

On the morning of July 15, 1887, the New York Herald boldly titled…
John "Bud" Fowler, SABR's 2020 Overlooked 19th Century Legend who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2022 (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

August 6, 1887: Bud Fowler joins the Montpelier Capital Citys

Black baseball pioneer and 2022 Hall of Famer Bud Fowler played…
Fred Carroll (TRADING CARD DB)

August 9, 1887: Radbourn, Beaneaters receive a pummeling by Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh Alleghenys had a terrible first three months of…

October 21, 1887: Sam Thompson’s triple trouble

Sam Thompson may have been the best hitter in baseball in 1887.…
Harry Stovey (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

May 15, 1888: Philadelphia’s Harry Stovey hits for the cycle

Harry Stovey had the power to lead his league in home runs five…

May 27, 1888: Bridegroom Adonis Terry no-hits Louisville on a Sunday in Queens

Early in the fall of 1887, Brooklyn Grays pitcher Will Terry…

June 21, 1888: George Van Haltren tosses rain-shortened no-hitter for Chicago

Largely overlooked today, George Van Haltren was a speedy center…

August 14, 1888: Tim Keefe finally loses and “Casey at the Bat” premieres

The record for consecutive games won by a pitcher in a single…

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

In October 1888, the atmosphere at New York Giants headquarters…

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

Baseball fans can debate incessantly over what is the greatest…
Pete Browning (TRADING CARD DB)

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

The Louisville Colonels didn’t have many bright spots during…

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

There are days when nothing goes right. In 1889 the Louisville…

July 27, 1889: Harry Raymond’s wild win

In 1889 the Louisville Colonels of the American Association were…
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

In the 1880s, the Educational Home for Boys in Philadelphia…