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1892 Major League Baseball season
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The following are the baseball events of the year 1892 throughout the world.
Champions
National League final standings
First half of season
Second half of season
Overall record
Events
Births
Deaths
- January 14 - Silver Flint, 36, catcher with the Chicago White Stockings for eleven seasons who batted .310 for 1881 champions
- April 18 - Ned Bligh, 27, catcher for four seasons, died of Typhoid fever.
- May 21 - Hub Collins, 28, second baseman for the 1889-90 champion Brooklyn teams who led league in doubles and runs once each
- July 12 - Alexander Cartwright, 72, pioneer of the sport who formulated the first rules in 1845, developing a new sport for adults out of various existing playground games; established distance between bases at 90 feet, introduced concept of foul territory, set the number of players at nine per team, and fixed the number of outs at three per side and innings at nine; founded Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the sport's first organized club, in New York City, and spread the sport across the nation into the 1850s
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