Sporting News
BOSTON WINS IN FINAL AT BAT IN FIRST LEAGUE GAME
It was the best opening day the new league could have hoped for as excitement went down to the last at bat and the home Red Stockings defeated the Troy Haymakers. Third baseman Henry Burroughs came up with the clutch single to break the tie in the 9th inning off of Al Pratt and send home John Hatfield with the winning run,