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Joe Borden, pitching under the pseudonym Joe Josephs, is the winning pitcher, and Jim O'Rourke collected the league's first base hit. [6] [8] April 25: Louisville: Louisville Baseball Park: In Chicago's first National League game, Albert Spalding threw the NL's first shutout as Chicago defeated Louisville by the score of 4–0. Spalding threw ...
1876 NL season changes: The National League is founded, and with it, the first Major League season. Four teams from the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP) become charter members: Boston Red Caps; Hartford Dark Blues; New York Mutuals; Philadelphia Athletics; Two teams are enfranchised: Cincinnati Reds; Louisville Grays
By 1875, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP, often referred to as the "National Association"), founded four years earlier, was suffering from a lack of strong authority over clubs, unsupervised scheduling, unstable membership of cities, dominance by one team (the Boston Red Stockings), and an extremely low entry fee ($10) that gave clubs no incentive to abide by ...
Prior to 1876, only teams from the National Association (NA) that established the NL are shown. Between 1876 and 1901, in addition to the NL teams, only American Association (AA) and Union Association (UA) teams that eventually joined the NL are shown. No teams from the Players' League (PL) are shown. After 1901, only AL and NL teams are shown.
The National League was established on February 2, 1876 as a successor to the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP or National Association (NA)), as a means to concentrate quality of talent and reduce the number of poor-drawing games played against low-quality competition in small towns (such as the 1875 Keokuk ...
National League; Team W L Pct. GB Home Road; Chicago: 52: 14 .788 — 25–6 27–8 Hartford: 47: 21 .691 6 23–9 24–12 St. Louis: 45: 19 .703 6 24–6 21–13 Boston: 39: 31 .557 15 19–17 20–14 Louisville: 30: 36 .455 22 15–16 15–20 Mutual: 21: 35 .375 26 13–20 8 ...
The Louisville Grays were a 19th-century United States baseball team and charter member of the National League, based in Louisville, Kentucky. They played two seasons, 1876 and 1877, and compiled a record of 65–61. Their home games were at the Louisville Baseball Park.
A team's name links to an article about that team's season (rather than to the team in general) for 1871 and later. The only championship teams to last beyond 1876 (when the National League was founded) were the Chicago White Stockings (now the Chicago Cubs, NL) and the Boston Red Stockings (now the Atlanta Braves, NL).