1887 in sports

Baseball

• World Series - Detroit NL defeats St Louis AA 10 games to 5.
• The two major leagues NL and AA agree to one set of rules.
• The National Colored Base Ball League plays for a few weeks before folding.
• Five black men play in the International League, the highest minor league, the high-water mark in racial integration of professional baseball.

Football (Australian rules)

• Carlton Football Club wins the Victorian Football Association premiership
• Jack Worrall awarded the honor of Champion Of The Colony
• Norwood Football Club wins the South Australian Football Association premiership
• Unions Football Club wins the Western Australian Football Association premiership

Football (Soccer)

• FA Cup - Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion 2-0
• Barnsley F.C. formed
• Hamburger SV formed

Rowing

• Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Cambridge

Yacht racing

• The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as Volunteer defeats British challenger Thistle, of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club, 2 races to 0

Births

• February 26 — Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
• March 9 — Phil Mead, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• April 15 — Mike Brady, American golfer (d. 1972)
• May 2 — Eddie Collins, American baseball player (d. 1951)
• May 26 — Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1971)
• May 28 — Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
• July 16 — Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
• July 24 — Gerard Bosch van Drakestein, Dutch track cyclist (d. 1972)
• August 24 — Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
• September 26 — Frigyes Wiesner, Hungarian athlete (d. 1938)
• September 28 — Avery Brundage, American sports official (d. 1975)
• October 30 — Victor Henny, Dutch athlete (d. 1941)
• November 6 — Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)

Deaths

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