The 1880 Major League baseball season was contested from May 1 through October 1, 1880, and saw the Chicago White Stockings as the pennant winner of the fifth season of the National League.
Thrown by Lee Richmond and John Ward, these two perfect games were thrown in the span of five days, the shortest amount of time between two perfect games (the next closest is currently 20 days between Dallas Braden's May 9 and Roy Halladay's and May 29, 2010 perfect games).
The 1880 schedule consisted of 84 games for all eight teams of the National League.
This continued the format put in place since the previous season and would be used until 1883.
[1] The 1880 season saw the following rule changes: An asterisk (*) denotes the ballpark a team played the minority of their home games at