Tuesday July 1st 1879
St Louis 8 Philadelphia 5
Bill Purcell drives in three runs with a two double day. Dan Brouthers continues to shine going 2-5 with 2 RBIs.
All-Star Game
Friday July 4th 1879
National 4 American 3
| National League All-Stars | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 3 |
| American League All-Stars | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 4 |
WP Dan Collins (Brooklyn)
LP Pidgey Morgan (Brown Stockings)
MVP Buttercup Dickerson (Brown Stockings)
Cleveland at Philadelphia
Monday July 7th 1879
Philadelphia 11 Cleveland 6
Aaron Clapp and Levi Meyerle go 3-5. John Richmond has a three hits and Candy Nelson drives in three for the Blues.
Wednesday July 9th 1879
Philadelphia 13 Cleveland 7
Aaron Clapp has a 4-6 game. Charlie Eden hits two triples. Dan Brouthers scores three times.
Saturday July 12th 1879
Cleveland 5 Philadelphia 2 (10)
Blues scores three in the 10th on error, wild pitch and passed ball.
Baltimore at Philadelphia
Tuesday July 15th 1879
Philadelphia 3 Baltimore 1
Al Spalding out pitches George Bradley. Both allow only six hits.
Foley Superb Against St. Louis
Tuesday, July 15th, 1879: "He was too darn good for us today," grumbled the St. Louis manager after his club suffered a 6-0 shutout at the hands of Curry Foley of the Cleveland Blues. He held the St. Louis Brown Stockings scoreless in a 5-hit whitewash.
Thursday July 17th 1879
Philadelphia 5 Baltimore 4
Dan Brouthers hits a triple and drives in two. Bobby Mathews scatters nine hits.
Friday July 18th 1879
Philadelphia 4 Baltimore 2
Athletics sweep Orioles for the first time this season. Dan Brouthers scores once on 2 hits.
Philadelphia at St Louis
Tuesday July 22nd 1879
St Louis 6 Philadelphia 0
John Ward shuts out Athletics. Lew Brown hits two doubles and drives in a pair.
Thursday July 24rd 1879
St Louis 10 Philadelphia 5
John Dailey drives in three and as does Jay Pike. Bobby Mitchell wins his 6th games
Foley Sizzles, Baltimore Fizzles
Thursday, July 24th, 1879: In an outstanding mound performance, Curry Foley of the Cleveland Blues scuttled the Baltimore Orioles 4-0 on a 3-hit shutout, ringing up 2 strikeouts and giving up no walks.
Rowe Smacks 5 Hits for Red Caps
Thursday, July 24th, 1879: Next time the Reds might think twice about pitching to Jack Rowe. Today at South End Grounds I the Boston catcher really burned Cincinnati pitching, going 5-for-6 in the Red Caps 15-13 triumph.
Reds Pitching Ravaged by Williamson
Thursday, July 24th, 1879: If just anyone could go out and hit a baseball, big dollar contracts wouldn't exist. But they can't, so the good hitters get the big bucks. Ned Williamson showed how it's done as he went 5 for 5 against the Cincinnati Reds and helped the Boston Red Caps beat them 15-13.
Zero Hour: Stearns Blanks Orioles
Saturday, July 26th, 1879: Sometimes even Bill Stearns of Cleveland isn't sure which pitcher will show up when he takes the mound.
"I've been good sometimes and bad sometimes," he said. This time he looked good and made the Baltimore Orioles look bad, blanking them by the score of 3-0.
Stearns tossed a 5-hit shutout against them, totaling 3 strikeouts and giving up no walks.
Sunday July 27th 1879
Philadelphia 11 St Louis 7
Doc Bushong goes 3-4 with his first home run and drives in four. Charlie Eden scores three times.
Philadelphia at Cleveland
Tuesday July 29th 1879
Philadelphia 5 Cleveland 1
Charlie Eden hits his first home run of the season, a grand slam in the third inning.
Wednesday July 30th 1879
Philadelphia 7 Cleveland 1
Dan Brouthers hits third home run of the season and goes 2-5. Charlie Eden has a 4-5, 3 RBI game.
Standings
| American League Standings |
| W | L | PCT | GB |
| St. Louis Brown Stockings | 28 | 25 | .528 | - |
| Cleveland Blues | 28 | 25 | .528 | - |
| Baltimore Orioles | 27 | 26 | .509 | 1.0 |
| Philadelphia Athletics | 23 | 30 | .434 | 5.0 |
| National League Standings |
| W | L | PCT | GB |
| Brooklyn Atlantics | 31 | 22 | .585 | - |
| Cincinnati Reds | 30 | 23 | .566 | 1.0 |
| Boston Red Caps | 29 | 24 | .547 | 2.0 |
| Chicago White Stockings | 16 | 37 | .302 | 15.0 |
July Athletics Performance
Record 8-4.
Boom
Dan Brouthers .360 1 HR 6 RBI
Charlie Eden .333 1 HR 14 RBI
Aaron Clapp .357 6 RBI
Al Spalding 5-3 1.97 era 32 K
Bust
Ross Barnes .194 2 RBI
Fred Waterman .130