Anthony John Mullane, nicknamed "Count" and "the Apollo of the Box", was an Irish Major League Baseball player who pitched for seven teams during his 13-season career. He is best known as an ambidextrous pitcher who could throw left- and right-handed, and for having one of the highest career win totals of pitchers not in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The following are the baseball events of the year 1882 throughout the world.