1864 in sports

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Contents 1 Baseball 2 Cricket 3 Horse racing 4 Rowing 5 Births

[edit] Baseball

• The Atlantic club of Brooklyn, New York suffers only one early tie. One match is at Rochester against the Young Canadian club of Woodstock, Ontario, 75-11.
• New rules empower the umpire to "call" balls (bad pitches) and eventually award first base on balls, practically limiting the number of pitches and the length of each batsman's turn.

[edit] Cricket

• Overarm bowling is finally permitted.

[edit] Horse racing

• First Travers Stakes in Saratoga Springs, New York, won by Kentucky

[edit] Rowing

• Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford
• The Harvard-Yale Regatta resumes after three years and will continue annually.

[edit] Births

• August 24 — Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (d. 1919)
• November 3 — Karl Neukirch, German gymnast (d. 1941)