Walter Thornton's No-Hitter

The Chicago Orphans held the Brooklyn Bridegrooms without a hit on August 21, 1898, winning 2–0. Walter Thornton started the game for the Chicago Orphans.

It was played at West Side Grounds in Chicago. The announced attendance was 7,000. Brickyard Kennedy started for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. Jim McDonald umpired behind the plate. It was played in daylight, as every game was: the first night game in the major leagues came in 1935.

The game log records each side's starting pitcher rather than everyone who appeared, so where a no-hitter was finished by a second pitcher this page names the man who began it. No-hitters before 1898 are missing from this archive for a related reason: the game logs carry no hit totals at all for the 1880s and only part of the 1890s, so there is nothing to read them off.