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In 1887, the National League and American Association agreed to abide by some uniform rule changes and decreased the number of balls required for a walk to five.
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However, the variance between methods results in differing recognition for the 1887 National League batting champion.
* 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
New Zealand established Tongariro National Park in 1887.
The rivalry started when the Pittsburgh Pirates entered National League play in their fifth season of 1887, four years after the Phillies.
In 1887, PTs were given official registration by Sweden ’ s National Board of Health and Welfare.
The franchise joined the National League in its sixth season in 1887 and was competitive from its early years, winning three National League titles from 1901 to 1903, playing in the very first World Series in 1903 and winning their first World Series in 1909 behind Honus Wagner.
The U. S. National Women's Singles Championships were first held in 1887 in Philadelphia.
In 1887, Charles Henry Niehaus sculpted a statue of Allen to be placed in the National Statuary Hall.
The first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks owing to low attendance.
The success of the Cubans led to the creation of the first recognized " Negro league " in 1887 – the National Colored Base Ball League.
* National Colored Baseball League, 1887.
Ferdinand was elected Knyaz of autonomous Bulgaria by its Grand National Assembly on 7 July 1887 in the Gregorian calendar ( the " New Style " used hereinafter ).
Six years after the men's nationals were first held, the first official U. S. Women's National Singles Championship was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1887, won by 17-year-old Philadelphian Ellen Hansell, accompanied by the U. S. Women's National Doubles Championship ( not held for the next two years ) and U. S. Mixed Doubles Championship ( not held in 1899 ).
Gering was founded in 1887 at the base of the bluff that is now the center of Scotts Bluff National Monument.
The Hamilton County Courthouse was built in 1887, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in April, 1980.
* John F. Williams ( 1887 – 1953 ), Army National Guard general
A 19th century half-timbered building called " The Mere ", built in 1887 by the grandson of Richard Bentley, is now the head office of the National Foundation for Educational Research.
In the 1887 Grand National competition in St. Moritz, a Mr. Cornish introduced the now traditional head-first position, a trend that was in full force by the 1890 Grand National.
Besides many contributions to the Academy, the Saturday Review, the Magazine of Art and other periodicals, he published volumes on The Italian Pre-Raphaelites ( 1887 ), The Earlier English Water-Colour Painters ( 1890 and 1897 ), In the National Gallery ( 1895 ) and British Contemporary Artists ( 1899 ).
Until 1887 the story was only known through the legend, but in that year, the Spanish historian, Fidel Fita, published an account of the trial of Yucef Franco, one of the accused, in the Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia, from the trial papers he had discovered in the Spanish National Archive.
The Orange Tornadoes and Newark Tornadoes were two manifestations of a long-lived professional American football franchise that existed in some form from 1887 to 1971, having played in the National Football League from 1929 to 1930, the American Association from 1936 to 1941, the Atlantic Coast Football League from 1963 to 1964 and 1970 to 1971, and the Continental Football League from 1965 to 1969.
1887 and League
In 1887, Major League Baseball counted bases on balls ( walks ) as hits.
In 1887, Hugh Nicol set a still-standing Major League record with 138 stolen bases, many of which would not have counted under modern rules.
They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt.
From 1887, anarchists began to outnumber socialists in the Socialist League.
The 3rd Annual Conference of the League, held in London on 29 May 1887 marked the change, with a majority of the 24 branch delegates voting in favor of an anarchist-sponsored resolution declaring that " This conference endorses the policy of abstention from parliamentary action, hitherto pursued by the League, and sees no sufficient reason for altering it.
From 1887, anarchists began to outnumber socialists in the Socialist League.
The 3rd Annual Conference of the League, held in London on 29 May 1887 marked the change, with a majority of the 24 branch delegates voting in favor of an anarchist-sponsored resolution declaring that " This conference endorses the policy of abstention from parliamentary action, hitherto pursued by the League, and sees no sufficient reason for altering it.
The IWW founded the Anti-Conscription League ( ACL ) in which IWW members worked with the broader labour and peace movement, and also carried on an aggressive propaganda campaign in its own name ; leading to the imprisonment of Tom Barker ( 1887 – 1970 ) the editor of the IWW paper Direct Action, sentenced to twelve months in March 1916.
in 1887 – 88, before adopting the name Southampton St. Mary's when the club joined the Southern League in 1894.
* Jack Martin ( 1887 – 1980 ), Major League Baseball infielder who played for the 1912 New York Yankees ( Highlanders ), 1914 Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Braves, who lived out his twilight years in Brick Township and is the namesake of Jack Martin Boulevard.
Joseph Jefferson Jackson ( July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951 ), nicknamed " Shoeless Joe ", was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball in the early part of the 20th century.
The Cleveland Spiders were a Major League Baseball team which played between 1887 and 1899 in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1887, Irish Land League campaigners, led by John Mandeville, organised a rent strike at the estate of Lady Kingston at Mitchelstown.
Walter Perry Johnson ( November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946 ), nicknamed " Barney " and " The Big Train ", was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher.
1887 and American
* 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor ( d. 1918 )
* 1851 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist ( d. 1887 )
* 1887 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager ( d. 1978 )
* 1948 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author ( b. 1887 )
* 1887 – Joseph Stadler, American athlete
Cleveland went without major league baseball for two seasons until gaining a team in the American Association ( AA ) in 1887.
* 1887 – Joseph Lamb, American ragtime composer ( d. 1960 )
* 1887 – Tim Moore, American actor and comedian ( d. 1958 )
* 1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player ( b. 1887 )
* 1887 – Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1964 )
* 1958 – Tim Moore, American actor ( b. 1887 )
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* 1887 – Eubie Blake, American musician and composer ( d. 1983 )
* 1887 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player ( d. 1950 )
* 1887 – William Frawley, American actor ( d. 1966 )
* 1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
* 1887 – Kathleen Clifford, American actress ( d. 1962 )
* 1887 – Marc Mitscher, American admiral ( d. 1947 )
* 1995 – George Abbott, American stage director and producer ( b. 1887 )
* 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer ( d. 1887 )
* 1887 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist ( d. 1948 )
* 1808 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1887 )
* 1887 – James Ormsbee Chapin, American painter and illustrator ( d. 1975 )
* 1887 – Marquard Schwarz, American swimmer ( d. 1968 )
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