The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-12
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York Knickerbockers in 1916.
The first match game was played al
Hoboken, N. j., June 10, 1876.
The first baseball league was formed
in New York in 1857.
The first championship team was
New York in 1858.
The first salf ried team was Gin
cinnati in 1868.
The Professional National associa-
ton was formed in 1871.
The National league was formed in
1876.
The American league Originally
the Western league) was formed in
1894. Name was changed to Ameri-
can league in 1900.
Catcher's mask invented by +. w.
Thayer of Harvard, 1876.
Curve pitching was first used by
Arthur Cummings in 1876.
Overland twirling was authorized in
1884.
First glove used for left hand
Douglas Allison, Cincinnati Reds, 1886.
Nv SoIIliIllSSlpIl dSStilllta
control of the series for the worlds
championship in 1905.
First series for worlds champions
ship-Providence defeated Metropoli-
tans three straight games, 1894.
Longest professional games-Decatur
defeated Bloomington at Bloomington,
Ill, May 81, 1909, 2 to /, in IS innings;
Dixon, H., defeated Muscatine, Ia, 8
to 2, in 26 innings, June %, 1909.
Longest major league game-Phila-
delphia Americans defeated Boston at
Boston September /, 1906, 4 to /, in
"a innings.
The longest game on record-Brook-
lyn Athletic club defeated East Enc
All-Stars at Cleveland, Ohio, July 4,
1907, in so innings, 4 to /.
Greatest number of innings without
scoring-Minor league: Fargo VS..
Devils Lake, N. D., July IS, 1891;
score 0 to 0, 25 innings. Major league:
Detroit VS.. Washington, July IS, 1909,
score 0 to 0, IS innings.
Shortest game on record-Atlanta
defeated Mobile, September II, 1910,
playing full nine innings in 80 min
utes.
Homerun record - Buck Freeman,
Washington, 1899, Is.
Greatest number of runs in league
games-Chicago, IS; Cleveland, 4;
July "a. 1882.
Record for circling bases. 1874 sec
onds-John Lobert of Philadelphia
Nationals at Cincinnati, October 8,
1910.
Tifrhtnr ,aonrIc2 NVtrp,i,,r e.
tive games: John Luby, Chicago Ma
t~ionals, 1890, 20; Rube Marquard, New
York Nationals, 1912, 10; Walter john
son, Washington Americans, 1912, 16;
Joe Wood. Boston Americans, 1912, 16.
Strikeout records-Hugh DAILY, Chi
cago Nationals. 1884, 20; for a sea"
son, Kilroy, Baltimore Nationals, 1884,
sos; Waddell, Philadelphia Ameri~
1904, 343.
Greatest number of runs scored in
a season-Hamilton, Philadelphia Ma
%tionals, 1894, 1876.
First no-hit game in history of game
was played at Ionia, Mich. August It.
1876, between the st. Louis Reds and
pitched for the Reds.
he greatest number ol NlCtoIleS III
a season was made by the Chicago
Nationals when they captured 116
games.
George Gibson holds the record for
consecutive games caught. In 1909 he
was behind the bat 140 days without
a letup.
The greatest number of stolen bases
was made by Harry Stovey of the
Athletics in 1883, when he pilfered 1876
bags.
The longest distance throw of 426
feet 9R inches was made by Sheldon
Lejeune, formerly a member of the
Brooklyn Nationals at Cincinnati, Oc-
tober II. 1910.
The greatest number of games
pitched in a season We're 72 by Rad
bourne Of Providence in 1884.