July 1st 1889 Update
American League News: The top 5 teams are within 5 games of one another. The Cleveland Spiders were a blistering team during the month, going 17-7 to vault into First Place.
Charlie Reilly (St Louis Browns) is on pace to hit 30 HRs and 153 RBIs this season.
National League News: It looks as if it will be the Kansas City Cowboys and New York Giants show. KC leads the NY by a single game. Jake Virtue (Kansas City) leads the league
with 43 RBIs.
Washington Nationals News: Nationals made three moved during the month. We traded SS Heinie Kappel (.174, 1 RBI) for SP Ed Crane. 3B Billy Alvord (.174, 0 RBIs) for Frank
McCarton (.364, 0 RBIs), SS Germany Smith (.111, 4 RBIs) for RF Tom Brown (.234, 10 RBIs), and RP Frank Pearce (0-2, 6.75 era) for SP John Kirby (0-5, 4.17 era). Despite the moves,
we finished 5-18 for the month of June.