1899 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1899 throughout the world.  

Champions

• National League: Brooklyn Superbas

National League final standings

Events

• Buck Freeman scored 25 home runs during the 1899 season; the second highest total was Bobby Wallace with 12. Although Freeman failed to equal Ned Williamson's record of 27 home runs in a season, recorded in 1884, Freeman's total is generally regarded as the greater achievement owing to the dimensions of Williamson's home ballpark of Lakeshore Park (of Williamson's 27 homers, only 2 were scored away from home). Freeman's tally was not surpassed until 1919, when Babe Ruth scored 29 home runs with the Boston Red Sox.

Births

• January 3 - Buzz Arlett
• January 11 - Alvin Crowder
• January 12 - Joe Hauser
• January 21 - Lew Fonseca
• January 27 - Bibb Falk
• February 7 - Earl Whitehill
• February 9 - Specs Toporcer
• March 17 - Charlie Root
• May 14 - Earle Combs
• August 4 - Oscar Melillo
• September 5 - Max Bishop
• September 9 - Waite Hoyt
• October 11 - Eddie Dyer
• October 26 - Judy Johnson
• November 11 - Pie Traynor
• December 6 - Jocko Conlan
• December 20 - George Pipgras

Deaths

• March 9 - Bill McGunnigle, 44, manager who led Brooklyn to the American Association title in 1889, and the NL pennant the following year after the team switched leagues; as collegiate catcher, was possibly the first at that position to wear a glove

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