September 1900 - September 18, 1900 (Tuesday)

September 18, 1900 (Tuesday)

• The American League completed its last season as a minor baseball circuit, with the Chicago White Stockings (led by Charlie Comiskey) finishing in first place with a record 82 wins and 52 losses, ahead of Connie Mack's 78-59 Milwaukee Brewers (who would later become the St. Louis Browns, and are today the Baltimore Orioles). Teams that would continue into the modern day American League would be Chicago, Milwaukee, the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland Lake Shores (later the Indians), the Kansas City Blues (later the Washington Senators, now the Minnesota Twins). Three other AL teams would be dropped (the Indianapolis Hoosiers, the Buffalo Bisons and the Minneapolis Millers) and replaced by the Philadelphia Athletics (now Oakland A's), the Boston Americans (now Red Sox) and the Baltimore Orioles (later the New York Yankees)
• Li Hongzhang was accepted by the Allied powers as the representative of China for peace negotiations following the Boxer Rebellion, and arrived at Tianjin to begin work.