1890 in baseball

Champions

• World Series: Brooklyn Bridegrooms 3, Louisville Colonels 3, 1 tie
• National League: Brooklyn Bridegrooms
• American Association: Louisville Colonels
• Players' League: Boston Reds

Inter-league playoff: Brooklyn (NL) declined challenge by Boston (PL)

Inter-league playoff: Louisville (AA) declined challenge by Boston (PL)

Major league baseball final standings

National League final standings

American Association final standings

Players' League final standings

Statistical leaders

National League statistical leaders

American Association statistical leaders

Players' League statistical leaders

Events

January–March

• January 9 - The Brooklyn Gladiators are admitted to the American Association, joining Toledo, Rochester and Syracuse as new members.

• January 28 - New York Supreme Court Justice Morgan J. O'Brien rules in favor of John Montgomery Ward's Reserve Clause case, and by extension the Players' League, by ruling baseball contracts lacked mutuality and were therefore unenforceable. This is the first in several rulings that allows the Players' League to proceed as planned.

• February 1 - The National League finalizes its schedule for 1890, but refuses to release it. Speculation abounds that they are waiting for the Players' League to release their own schedule so that the new circuit may purposely schedule conflicting games in the same cities where both leagues have teams.

• February 20 - Sam Rice is born in Morocco, Indiana. A......
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