The following are thebaseball events of the year1883 throughout the world.

• National League:Boston Beaneaters
• American Association:Philadelphia Athletics
• Inter-State Association:Brooklyn Atlantics
• Northwestern League:Toledo Blue Stockings

Inter-league playoff: Philadelphia (AA) declined to play Boston (NL)

v t e American Association Team W L Pct. GB Home Road Philadelphia Athletics 66 32 .673 — 37‍–‍14 29‍–‍18 St. Louis Browns 65 33 .663 1 35‍–‍14 30‍–‍19 Cincinnati Red Stockings 61 37 .622 5 38‍–‍13 23‍–‍24 New York Metropolitans 54 42 .562 11 29‍–‍17 25‍–‍25 Louisville Eclipse 52 45 .536 13½ 29‍–‍18 23‍–‍27 Columbus Buckeyes 32 65 .330 33½ 18‍–‍29 14‍–‍36 Pittsburgh Alleghenys 31 67 .316 35 18‍–‍31 13‍–‍36 Baltimore Orioles 28 68 .292 37 18‍–‍31 10‍–‍37

Orioles Red Stockings Buckeyes Eclipse Metropolitans Athletics Alleghenys Browns Locations of teams for the 1883American Association season American Association

v t e National League Team W L Pct. GB Home Road Boston Beaneaters 63 35 .643 — 41‍–‍8 22‍–‍27 Chicago White Stockings 59 39 .602 4 36‍–‍13 23‍–‍26 Providence Grays 58 40 .592 5 34‍–‍15 24‍–‍25 Cleveland Blues 55 42 .567 7½ 31‍–‍18 24‍–‍24 Buffalo Bisons 49 45 .521 12 36‍–‍13 13‍–‍32 New York Gothams 46 50 .479 16 28‍–‍19 18‍–‍31 Detroit Wolverines 40 58 .408 23 23‍–‍26 17‍–‍32 Philadelphia Quakers 17 81 .173 46 9‍–‍40 8‍–‍41

Beaneaters Bisons White Stockings Blues Wolverines Gothams Quakers    Grays Locations of teams for the 1883National League season National League

• First basemanDan Brouthers led the NL in batting average (.374), on-base percentage (.397), slugging percentage (.572), adjusted OPS+ (187), hits (159), total bases (243), and runs batted in (97).^[1][2]
• PitcherCharles Radbourn led the NL with 48 wins. He finished second in the NL in innings pitched (632.1), earned run average (2.05), adjusted ERA+ (150), and strikeouts (315).^[3][4]

• February 17 – TheAmerican Association and theNational League, along with theNorthwestern League, sign the Tripartite Agreement (also known as the National Agreement). This agreement binds the leagues to respect each other's valid player contracts as well as increasing the size of the reserve list from 6 to 11 players. This leads to relative harmony among the leagues until thePlayers' League wars of1889–1890.
• March 14 – The Peoria Club of the Northwestern League makes a motion to ban blacks, a move directly aimed at Toledo's star catcher,Moses Fleetwood Walker. After heated discussion, the motion is withdrawn and Walker remains eligible to play.
• March 30 – Charles Fowle, one of the original founders of theNational League, and secretary of theSt. Louis Brown Stockings from 1875 to 1877, dies inSt. Louis.
• March 31 – The nation's oldest baseball club, the Olympic Town-Ball Club of Philadelphia, marks its 50th anniversary.

• April 13 – U.S. PresidentChester A. Arthur invites members of the recently defunct Forest Cities franchise from the National Association to the White House, making it the first professional sports team to visit a president in Washington D.C. Later that year, theNew York Gothams, the precursor to the New York Giants, also visits Arthur in D.C.
• April 15 –Francis Richter publishes the first issue ofSporting Life which will grow into the leading weekly publication for baseball information and run continuously until 1917.
• April 24 –Terry Larkin, a pitcher who has not played in the majors since 1880, shoots his wife and a policeman, then tries to kill himself. He attempts suicide the next day and fails again. Both his wife and the police officer survive as well, and Larkin will play in 40 games for theRichmond Virginians in1884.
• May 1 – In their inauguralNational League game, theNew York Gothams defeat theBoston Beaneaters 7–5 in front of 15,000 fans, who include PresidentUlysses S. Grant. ThePhiladelphia Quakers, also making their NL debut, lose 4–3 to theProvidence Grays.
• May 3 –John Montgomery Ward becomes the first pitcher to hit 2 home runs in a game as hisNew York Gothams defeat theBoston Beaneaters 10–9.
• May 13 – In what was still a very rare occurrence, neither team commits an error as theSt. Louis Browns defeat theLouisville Eclipse 4–3.
• May 28 – Fort Wayne and Indianapolis play the first of 2 games under electric lights.
• May 30 – Several of theAmerican Association teams play a Memorial Day double-header in 2 different cities. At one point, there is anAmerican Association game being played at thePolo Grounds on theNew York Metropolitans field and aNational League game being played at the Polo Grounds on theNew York Gothams field where the outfield fences back up to one another.
• June 9 – ThePhiladelphia Quakers receive special permission from theNational League to lower their ticket prices to 25¢ per game in order to compete with thePhiladelphia Athletics of theAmerican Association. The Quakers average game attendance quadruples for the remainder of the season.
• June 16 – TheNew York Gothams introduceladies day, where all females are admitted free without restriction. This idea will remain a staple of major league baseball for nearly 100 years.
• June 28 –Providence Grays player Joe Mulvey is shot in the shoulder while leaving the playing field atMesser Street Grounds inProvidence. The shooter, James Murphy, was actually aiming for Mulvey's teammate, Cliff Carroll after Carroll had drenched Murphy with a hose. Within a month, Mulvey would be sold to thePhiladelphia Quakers.

• July 3 – TheChicago White Stockings set a major league record with 14 doubles, including 4 each byCap Anson andAbner Dalrymple, in a 31–7 pasting over theBuffalo Bisons.^[5] Chicago also set a Major League record for the mostat bats by one team in a regulation nine-inning game, with 66.^[6]
• July 4 –Tim Keefe of theNew York Metropolitans wins both games of a double-header over theColumbus Buckeyes while giving up a combined 3 hits in the 2 games.
• July 25 –Charles Radbourn throws a no-hitter for theProvidence Grays.
• July 26 – Joe Gephardt of theLouisville Eclipse is forced out of action due to temporary paralysis. Gephardt will recover and play again within 2 weeks.
• July 28 – The first recorded game is played inHawaii.
• July 30 – Player/managerLon Knight of theAmerican AssociationPhiladelphia Athleticshits for the cycle. Philadelphia defeats thePittsburgh Alleghenys, 17–4.
• August 7 – TheProvidence Grays fall out of 1st place for good in their 6–4 loss to theBoston Beaneaters. For the 2nd straight season, Providence will lead the league for the majority of the season and not win the pennant.
• August 11
  • TheBoston Beaneaters turn a triple play when catcherMike Hines catches a muffed pop-up and catches the base-runners off guard.
  • Fred Thayer, patent-holder for the invention of the catching mask, andGeorge Wright sue Wright's former teammateAlbert Spalding's sporting goods company for patent infringement.Spalding will ultimately be forced to pay Thayer royalties in the case.
• August 20 – ThePittsburgh Alleghenys fineGeorge Creamer, Mike Mansell and Billy Taylor $100 each and indefinitely suspend all 3 players for drunkenness.
• August 21 – TheProvidence Grays defeat thePhiladelphia Quakers 28–0 in the most lopsided shutout game in major league history.
• August 29 – John Stricker of thePhiladelphia Athletics gets 4 hits in a game against theLouisville Eclipse but sets a record by getting picked off 3 times by Eclipse pitcherGuy Hecker.Benny Kauff of theNew York Giants will tie Stricker's record in1916.
• September 6 – TheChicago White Stockings set a major league record by scoring 18 runs in the 7th inning in their 26–6 victory over theDetroit Wolverines.Tom Burns goes 3–3 with 2 doubles and a home run in the outburst, setting records for most extra-base hits and runs scored in one inning by a player.
• September 10 –Long John Reilly of theCincinnati Red Stockings hits 2 inside the park home runs in a 12–6 win.
• September 12
  • TheUnion Association is officially formed inPittsburgh
  • Long John Reilly hits for the cycle and collects 6 hits in all, while teammateHick Carpenter also garners 6 hits, as theCincinnati Red Stockings pound thePittsburgh Alleghenys 27–5.
• September 13 –Hugh Daily of theCleveland Blues pitches a no-hitter.
• September 19 –Long John Reilly hits for the cycle for the 2nd time in a week as theCincinnati Red Stockings beat thePhiladelphia Athletics 12–3.
• September 27 – TheBoston Red Stockings clinch theNational League pennant with a 4–1 win over theCleveland Blues.
• September 28 – ThePhiladelphia Athletics clinch theAmerican Association flag with a 7–6 victory over theLouisville Eclipse.

• November 22 –New York Gothams ownerJohn B. Day proposes a resolution to prohibit a team from signing a player who has broken the reserve clause of his contract. This resolution, eventually adopted by both theAmerican Association andNational League, effectively changes the reserve clause from a device to protect owners from their own greediness to a vindictive weapon to be used against uncooperative players.
• November 24 – TheAmerican Association agree to expand to 12 teams by admitting theBrooklyn Atlantics,Indianapolis Hoosiers,Toledo Blue Stockings andWashington Nationals.

• January 1 –Eddie Zimmerman
• January 3 –Buck Hopkins
• January 8 –Bob Ingersoll
• January 27 –John McDonald
• February 2 –Bill Abstein
• February 4 –Doc Miller
• February 5 –Dick Scott
• February 8 –Joe Cassidy
• February 13
  • Hal Chase
  • Harl Maggert
• February 19 –Harry Curtis
• February 25 –Jack Hannifin
• March 1 –Charlie Pickett
• March 4 –Chet Spencer
• March 10 –Glenn Liebhardt
• March 17 –Oscar Stanage
• March 20 –Pep Clark
• March 29 –Rube Dessau

• April 4
  • Bill Hinchman
  • John Hummel
• April 7 –Bill Cooney
• April 8 –Shag Shaughnessy
• April 10 –Tex Pruiett
• April 13 –Mike Simon
• April 22 –Carl Vandagrift
• April 25 –Russ Ford
• April 28 –Harry Gaspar
• April 29
  • Rube Manning
  • Amby McConnell
  • Bill McGilvray
• May 5 –Gene Curtis
• May 6 –Ed Karger
• May 13 –Jimmy Archer
• May 19 –Eddie Files
• May 21 –Eddie Grant
• May 25 –Heinie Heitmuller
• June 6 –Jim St. Vrain
• June 10 –Ernie Lindemann
• June 16
  • Al Mattern
  • Red Waller
• June 29 –Doc Martel

• July 5
  • Jack Quinn
  • Josh Swindell
• July 8 –Ducky Holmes
• July 9 –Dave Shean
• July 14 –Happy Smith
• July 21 –Larry Pape
• July 27 –Harry Kane
• July 31
  • Tommy Madden
  • Red Munson
  • Tuffy Stewart
• August 4 –Lew Moren
• August 7 –Tom Richardson
• August 14 –Bill O'Hara
• August 17 –Walt Justis
• August 19 –George Ferguson
• August 21 –Chief Wilson
• August 23
  • Red Downs
  • Lew Richie
• August 25 –Elmer Brown
• August 27 –Baldy Louden
• August 29 –Jimmie Savage
• August 30
  • Bill Brinker
  • Sam Edmonston
• August 31 –Syd Smith
• September 3 –Art Fromme
• September 5 –Lefty Leifield
• September 6 –Dick Bayless
• September 7 –John Flynn
• September 17 –Leo Hafford
• September 18 –Frank Manush
• September 21 –Bris Lord
• September 28 –Harley Young

• October 3 –Phil Reardon
• October 4 –Harry Ables
• October 6 –Red Morgan
• October 7
  • Al Burch
  • Phil Lewis
• October 12 –Charlie French
• October 13
  • Walter Blair
  • Harry Huston
• October 16
  • Lew Groh
  • Will Harridge
• October 19 –Walt Miller
• October 20 –Cuke Barrows
• October 22 –Bill Carrigan
• October 28 –Frank Lange
• October 29 –Del Mason
• November 3 –Ed Lennox
• November 5 –Otis Johnson
• November 11 –Harry Billiard
• November 16 –Rollie Zeider
• November 20
  • Ben Egan
  • Harry Welchonce
• November 26 –Frank Lobert
• November 28 –Fred Osborn
• November 30 –Ben Houser
• December 4 –Jim Moroney
• December 8 –Jimmy Wacker
• December 10
  • Jerry Upp
  • Jim Stephens
• December 17 –Rebel Oakes
• December 18 –Hub Knolls
• December 26 –Jimmy O'Rourke

Date of birth unknown

• Mike McCormick
• Bill Moriarty

• April 17 –John Bergh, 25, back-up catcher for the 1880 Boston Red Stockings.
• July 5 –Charlie Guth, 27?, pitched a complete game victory in his only major league game in 1880 for the Chicago White Stockings.
• September 21 –Dan Collins, 29, outfielder who played in 10 games from 1874 to 1876.
• October 10 –Jim Devlin, 34, pitcher for the Louisville Grays in 1876–1877 who led NL in games, innings, starts and strikeouts in its first season; expelled from baseball in the1877 Louisville Grays scandal

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Sources

• Nemec, David (1994).The Beer and Whiskey League: The Illustrated History of the American Association-Baseball's Renegade Major League. New York: Lyons & Burford, PublishersISBN 1-55821-285-X

• 1883 National League season at Baseball-Reference.com
• 1883 American Association season at Baseball-Reference.com
• Charlton's Baseball Chronology at BaseballLibrary.com
• Year by Year History at Baseball-Almanac.com
• Retrosheet.org

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