1898 in sports

Baseball

• Ted Breitenstein pitches a no-hitter against the Pittsburg Pirates on April 22.
• Boston wins again: five championships in eight years under manager Frank Selee, twelve in the club's 28 seasons. There will be one more before the move to Milwaukee in 1953.

Cricket

• County Cricket Championship - Yorkshire

Football (American football)

• The Morgan Athletic Club, which would eventually become what are now the Arizona Cardinals, was founded in Chicago.

Football (Australian rules football)

• Victorian Football League
  • Fitzroy wins the 2nd VFL Premiership (Fitzroy 5.8 (38) d Essendon 3.5 (23))
  • See also Victorian Football League season 1898

Football (soccer)

England

• First Division - Sheffield United win the 1897-98 title.
• FA Cup - Nottingham Forest beat Derby County 3-1.
• Both the First and Second divisions are expanded from sixteen to eighteen teams, bringing the total number of League sides to 36. Additionally, the test match system was abandoned in favour of automatic relegation and promotion.

Horse racing

• June 11: Jockey Willie Simms became the only African-American jockey to win all three races of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing after he rode Sly Fox to victory in the Preakness Stakes.

Ice Hockey

• Montreal Victorias win their 4th Stanley Cup.

Rowing

• Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford

Births

• April 11 — Frans de Vreng, Dutch track cyclist (d. 1974)
• May 18 — Tom Heeney, New Zealand heavyweight boxer (d. 1984)
• May 25 — Harry Broos, Dutch athlete (d. 1954)
• June 9 — Luigi Fagioli, Italian racing driver (d. 1952)
• September 28 — Baconin Borzacchini, Italian racing driver (d. 1933)
• November 12 — Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete (d. 1999)

Deaths

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