Births
- January 2 – Pop Rising
- January 12 – Togie Pittinger
- February 3 – Lou Criger
- March 3 – Willie Keeler
- March 24 – Kip Selbach
- May 10 – Klondike Douglass
- May 16 – John O'Connell
- May 23 – Deacon Phillippe
- June 14 – Doc Parker
- August 6 – Sam Mertes
- August 15 - Silk O'Loughlin
- August 15 – John Warner
- August 18 – Eddie Hickey
- September 5 – Al Orth
- September 18 - Lord Byron
- September 20 – Joe Berry
- September 25 – Fred Odwell
- October 3 – Fred Clarke
- October 6 – Jack Dunn
- December 5 – Pink Hawley
- December 9 – Cy Seymour
- December 25 – Ted Lewis
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)