1898 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1898 throughout the world.

Champions

 * National League: Boston Beaneaters

Births

 * January 5 - Riggs Stephenson
 * January 10 - Fats Jenkins
 * January 24 - Cliff Heathcote
 * April 24 - Andy Cooper
 * April 25 - Fred Haney
 * July 10 - Dick Lundy
 * July 14 - Happy Chandler
 * August 28 - Charlie Grimm
 * August 30 - Kiki Cuyler
 * September 9 - Frankie Frisch
 * September 18 - George Uhle
 * September 20 - Chuck Dressen
 * October 9 - Joe Sewell
 * October 30 - Bill Terry
 * November 30 - Firpo Marberry

Deaths

 * April 17 - Bobby Mathews, 46, pitcher who won 297 games, 131 of them in the National Association, in a career that ran from 1871 to 1887; won the first professional league game in 1871, and had 30-win seasons for the 1883-85 Philadelphia Athletics