1904 in sports

Baseball

May 5: Boston Americans ace Cy Young pitched the second of his three no-hitters, a 3-0 perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics and pitcher Rube Waddell (the final batter he faced). Young will eventually complete 24 straight hitless innings, still the record, and 45 shutout innings in a row, a mark until broken by Jack Coombs' 53 scoreless frames in 1910. This is the first perfect game of the modern era.
The Duluth White Sox win the Northern League Championship.
The New York Giants of the National League refused to participate in the 1904 World Series. The announcement was made as the crosstown rivals the New York Highlanders were leading the American League, and the team cited the AL's perceived inferiority and disputes over splitting revenue from the series as their reasons. The Boston Americans won the AL pennant on the last game of the season, but the Giants still refused to play.

World governing body FIFA is founded. The football associations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland do not join.

First Division - The Wednesday retain the title in 1903-04, having won it the previous season as well.
FA Cup - Billy Meredith scores the only goal in Manchester City's 1-0 win over Second Division Bolton Wanderers. It is City's first major honour.

The World's greatest steeplechase, the Aintree Grand National is won by the New Zealand bred Moiffa ridden by Arthur Birch, trained by Bill Hickey and owned by Spencer Gollan. There is a popular myth that Moiffa was shipwrecked on his way from the Antipodes to England but this is not the case.

1904 Summer Olympics takes place in St. Louis, United States
- Only 42 of the 94 events included athletes not from the United States.
- The first Africans take part in the Olympics - two Tswana tribesmen who were taking part in a Boer War exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis ran in the marathon.
- United States wins the most medals (236), and the most gold medals (77).