Baseball
National championship
- National Association of Base Ball Players champion – Brooklyn Atlantics
Events
- The NABBP permits professional clubs at its December 1868 meeting. Openly there are twelve pro teams in the field.
- The original Cincinnati Red Stockings sign baseball's first all-professional team, ten men including player–manager Harry Wright on salary for eight months.
- Cincinnati tours from Boston to San Francisco and completes the season without defeat in at least 57 games. The entourage includes a local newspaper reporter. Continental tours do not fit the established method of determining a champion, which has limited credibility.
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