1892 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1892 throughout the world.

Champions

 * National League: Boston Beaneaters

Births

 * February 4 - Eddie Ainsmith
 * February 17 - Nemo Leibold
 * February 20 - John Donaldson
 * February 24 - Wilbur Cooper
 * April 16 - Dutch Leonard
 * May 3 - Del Baker
 * May 4 - Jack Tobin
 * July 26 - Sad Sam Jones
 * July 31 - Art Nehf
 * August 12 - Ray Schalk
 * August 26 - Jesse Barnes
 * September 21 - Elmer Smith
 * November 19 - Everett Scott
 * November 27 - Joe Bush

Deaths

 * January 14 - Silver Flint, 36, catcher with the Chicago White Stockings for eleven seasons who batted .310 for 1881 champions
 * May 21 - Hub Collins, 28, second baseman for the 1889-90 champion Brooklyn teams who led league in doubles and runs once each
 * July 12 - Alexander Cartwright, 72, pioneer of the sport who formulated the first rules in 1845, developing a new sport for adults out of various existing playground games; established distance between bases at 90 feet, introduced concept of foul territory, set the number of players at nine per team, and fixed the number of outs at three per side and innings at nine; founded Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the sport's first organized club, in New York City, and spread the sport across the nation into the 1850s