April 10
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on April 10.
Events[edit]
- 1913 - In a game which features U.S. President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the first pitch, the New York Highlanders become the New York Yankees. Playing their first game under their new nickname, the Yankees lose to the Washington Senators, 2 - 1, as future Hall of Famer Walter Johnson picks up the win for Washington. After giving up an unearned run in the 1st inning, Johnson begins a string of shutout innings that will reach a major league record 56 before the St. Louis Browns score in the 4th inning on May 14th.
- 1947 - In one of the most significant moments in baseball history, Jackie Robinson becomes the first black player of the 20th century to sign a major league contract. Robinson agrees a one-year deal with the Brooklyn Dodgers, whose general manager, Branch Rickey, personally recruited Robinson from the Negro Leagues.
- 1950 - Due to a salary dispute, St. Louis Browns pitcher Al Widmar quits the team and threatens to sue baseball. Widmar will sign a contract within the week.
- 1959 - On Opening Day at Briggs Stadium, Chicago White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox goes 5 for 7 and hits an unlikely 14th-inning two-run home run off Don Mossi to beat the Detroit Tigers, 9 - 7. Fox did not homer in 623 at-bats last season.
- 1961 - The new Washington Senators club plays the first game in franchise history. With U.S. President John F. Kennedy in attendance, the Senators lose a 4 - 3 decision to the Chicago White Sox on Roy Sievers' sacrifice fly.
- 1962:
- Dodger Stadium, the first major league ballpark privately financed since Yankee Stadium opened in 1923, opens in Chavez Ravine. With 52,564 fans on hand, the Los Angeles Dodgers inaugurate the $22-million facility with a 6 - 3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.
- At Colt Stadium, the Houston Colt .45s make their major league debut with an 11 - 2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Houston right fielder Roman Mejias hits a pair of three-run home runs before a crowd of 25,271 fans. Bobby Shantz pitches a complete-game five-hitter and Don Cardwell is the loser. The Colt .45s and New York Mets join the National League as expansion teams this year.
- On the heels of his career year in 1961, Roberto Clemente hits a game-winning grand slam on opening day for the Pirates. He lofts one of losing pitcher Jim Owens' deliveries over the left-centerfield wall at a spot 406 feet from home plate. It will be the only Pirates Opening Day grand slam until Neil Walker hits one in 2011.
- 1964 - Demolition begins on the Polo Grounds in New York City to clear the way for a housing project.
- 1968 - Roberto Clemente's opening day optical illusion goes for naught as Pittsburgh's newly acquired answer to its pitching problem, Jim Bunning, fresh off a string of great seasons with Philadelphia, provides an unwelcome harbinger of what will be a very trying year and, in so doing, marks the beginning of the distinctly mediocre final phase of his Hall of Fame career. But it's just another day at the office for Clemente, as he provides one of those signature moments when, as Frank Robinson recalls, "You'd watch him and find yourself saying to the guy next to you, 'Did you see that?'" Unfortunately, Bunning, Juan Pizarro and Ron Kline combine to squander Pittsburgh's 4 - 2 advantage in the final frame, thus leaving Clemente's magical moment (and his 3rd-inning, tie-breaking homer) somewhat adrift: "Rookie Hal King couldn't believe Roberto Clemente caught his long fly down the right field line for the third out in the 2nd inning," writes Les Biederman in the Pittsburgh Press. "King had just turned second base when he heard the crowd groan and saw the Pirates running off the field. He stopped, gave a bewildered look and kept glancing down the right field line to see how it was possible."
- 1969 - Tommie Agee of the New York Mets hits a monster shot into the upper deck in left field making it the longest home run to reach the seats in Shea Stadium history.
- 1971 - The Phillies debut in their new $49.5 million Veterans Stadium by beating Montreal, 4 - 1. Don Money of the Phillies connects for the park's first home run.
- 1973 - The first game in the history of Royals Stadium is played. John Mayberry hits a home run in Kansas City's 12 - 1 rout of Texas. A crowd of 39,476 attends the game at the state-of-the-art ballpark, which features water fountains beyond the outfield fence.
- 1974 - After a number of snowouts, the Expos finally open their season with an epic 11 - 8 win over the Pirates. Trailing 6 - 5 heading in the top of the 9th, Montreal scores three runs against Dave Giusti, but Bob Robertson hits a two-run pinch homer off Chuck Taylor to tie the game with two outs in the bottom of the inning. The Expos manage to score three runs off a tiring Ramon Hernandez in the 13th, with a double by rookie 2B Jim Cox driving in the go-ahead run. Taylor is still on the mound to pitch the bottom of the 13th, his sixth inning of relief, and he sets down the Bucs in order to earn the win.
- 1976 - Don Money hits a 9th-inning grand slam to give the Milwaukee Brewers an apparent 10 - 9 win over the New York Yankees. The umpires, however, rule that first baseman Chris Chambliss had called time out prior to the pitch. Money returns to the plate and flies out to right. The Brewers lose, 9 - 7.
- 1977 - At Fenway Park, the Cleveland Indians (13) and the Boston Red Sox (6) establish a major league record for the most runs scored by both teams in one inning. The 8th-inning barrage proves to be too much for Boston as Cleveland beats the home team, 19 - 9.
- 1979:
- Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck offers fans free admission to the next home game after his team's unimpressive debut on Opening Day. The White Sox's 10 - 2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays prompts the unusual action by Veeck.
- J.R. Richard sets a major-league record with six wild pitches, but he strikes out 13 Dodgers as the Astros win, 2 - 1.
- 1980 - On Opening Day at County Stadium, Sixto Lezcano hits a grand slam off Dick Drago with two outs in the 9th inning, to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 9 - 5 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Lezcano also opened the 1978 season with a grand slam, becoming the first player in major league history to do it twice on Opening Day.
- 1981 - In his first game for the Chicago White Sox, Carlton Fisk belts a three-run home run in the 8th inning to lead Chicago to a 5 - 3 victory over his former Red Sox teammates at Fenway Park.
- 1982:
- The New York Yankees trade hard-throwing reliever Ron Davis and minor leaguers Greg Gagne and Paul Boris to the Minnesota Twins for infielder Roy Smalley. The trade breaks up the Yankees' devastating bullpen combination of Davis and Goose Gossage.
- A crowd of 62,443 fans show up with the game-time temperature 38 degrees with a wind chill of 17 to see the Cleveland Indians drop the season opener to the Texas Rangers, 8 - 3. Five hundred tons of snow had to be removed from the Cleveland Stadium field prior to the game.
- 1983 - Norihiro Komada of the Yomiuri Giants becomes the first player in Nippon Pro Baseball history to hammer a grand slam in his first at-bat.
- 1989:
- Ken Griffey, Jr. hits his first major league home run at the Kingdome in Seattle's 6 - 5 win over the White Sox. Griffey's father, Ken Sr., is an outfielder with the Cincinnati Reds, making the two the first father-son duo to play in the major leagues at the same time. Ken Sr. will join his son on the Mariners before the end of the season.
- At Yankee Stadium, Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb throws a one-hit, 8 - 0 shutout against New York, giving him three one-hitters in his last four starts dating back to the previous September.
- 1990 - Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox is intentionally walked three times, tying a major league mark for a nine-inning game.
- 1994 - Former NBA star Michael Jordan singles twice, collecting his first hits in his professional baseball career while playing for the Birmingham Barons of the Class-AA Southern League.
- 1997 - The Chicago Cubs fall to 0-8, the worst start in the club's 122-year history, following a 1 - 0 loss to the Florida Marlins at frigid Wrigley Field. Florida pitcher Alex Fernandez, making his first appearance in Chicago since he left the White Sox over the winter as a free agent, is two outs away from a no-hitter when pinch-hitter Dave Hansen legs out an infield hit off the pitcher's glove. Fernandez settles for the one-hitter.
- 1998 - The New York Yankees draw the largest regular-season crowd ever at the renovated Yankee Stadium, as 56,717 attend the home opener against the Oakland Athletics. Then the Yankees crush the club scoring mark by winning the 17 - 13 slugfest.
- 2000 - On his father's 50th birthday, Ken Griffey Jr. becomes the youngest player, at 30 years and 141 days, to hit 400 career home runs, beating the previous mark set by Jimmie Foxx, who was 30 years and 248 days old.
- 2003:
- By hitting his 31st career leadoff home run, Astros outfielder Craig Biggio breaks Bobby Bonds' National League record. The major league mark of 80 belongs to Rickey Henderson.
- In a 7 - 6 victory over the Cardinals at Coors Field, the Colorado Rockies turn the first triple play in club history. With Scott Rolen on second base and Tino Martinez on first, Colorado first baseman Todd Helton catches Orlando Palmeiro's soft liner for the first out and throws to shortstop Jose Hernandez who steps on second for the second out and then tags Martinez to complete the feat.
- 2006:
- Jim Thome and Joe Crede hit two-run home runs and Paul Konerko adds a solo shot, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 5 - 3 victory in the Detroit Tigers' home opener. Freddy Garcia strikes out five and limits the Tigers to five hits in six innings en route to his 100th career victory.
- David Ortiz agrees to a four-year contract extension with the Boston Red Sox, a deal that will guarantee the slugger about $52 million. In 2005, Ortiz batted .300 with 148 RBI in 159 games, as his 47 home runs were second in Red Sox history to Jimmie Foxx's 50 in 1938.
- Howdy Groskloss, a former Pittsburgh Pirates infielder and the oldest living major league baseball player, celebrates his 100th birthday today.
- 2010:
- The Yankees' CC Sabathia flirts with a no-hit bid, before giving up a two-out single to the Rays' Kelly Shoppach in the 8th inning. Having reached his pitch count limit, he then exits the game, but is credited with the Yanks' 10 - 0 win.
- Ryan Howard, Shane Victorino and Jayson Werth drive in three runs each as the Phillies hand the Astros their fifth straight loss since the start of the season, 9 - 6. Jamie Moyer picks up his first win of the year for Philadelphia.
- Jose Reyes returns to the line-up for the first time since May of last year as the Mets lose to the Nationals, 4 - 3. His injury was one of those that torpedoed the Mets' 2009 season after a good start.
- It is Opening Day in the Hoofdklasse. Two of the four games are decided by walk-off hits. Danny Rombley's 10th-inning single gives DOOR Neptunus a win over Sparta/Feyenoord while Nick Urbanus singles in the winner in the bottom of the 9th for the Amsterdam Pirates against ADO.
- 2011:
- Last season's American League strikeout leader, Jered Weaver, is at it again, punching out 15 Blue Jays batters in 7 2/3 innings in a 3 - 1 win. He is the first Angels pitcher to strike out 15 since Chuck Finley in 1995.
- The Indians win their seventh straight as they defeat Seattle, 6 - 4. Asdrubal Cabrera and Jack Hannahan homer for Cleveland, and Ryan Langerhans for Seattle as Josh Tomlin is the winner over Erik Bedard.
- In the nationally-televised Sunday-night game, the Red Sox shut out the Yankees, 4 - 0, thanks to a dominating performance by Josh Beckett, who gives up only two hits in eight innings while striking out ten. The Red Sox strand 16 baserunners but manage to squeak a run off CC Sabathia on Mike Cameron's infield single in the 3rd, before tacking on a few insurance runs late in the game. Beckett and Jonathan Papelbon combine to retire the final 17 New York batters in order.
- 2012:
- The Miami Marlins announce that they are suspending manager Ozzie Guillen for five games for making remarks supportive of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in a recent Time Magazine interview. The Marlins decide to act even though Guillen has apologized in order to stem the groundswell of protest from Miami's large Cuban community.
- The Braves win their first game this season, 6 - 4, over the Houston Astros, as Chipper Jones homers in his first game of the year. The win snaps a nine-game losing streak dating back to the Braves' collapse at the end of the 2011 season, which cost them a playoff spot. Rookie SS Tyler Pastornicky hits his first major league homer for Atlanta as Houston wears the uniforms of the Houston Colt .45s in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first game in team history.
- 2013:
- The Boston Red Sox's record streak of sell-outs at Fenway Park ends after 820 games as the attendance for today's game against the Orioles is 30,862, well below the stadium's capacity of 37,493. The streak had begun on May 15, 2003 and included 794 regular-season games and 26 postseason contests. It easily surpassed the previous record of 455, set by the Cleveland Indians between 1995 and 2001. The streak went on even though Fenway's seating capacity was increased by 5,000 over the period.
- Cubs minor league prospect Jorge Soler is ejected from a game in the Florida State League for charging the opposite dugout with a bat in the 7th inning. Soler had been spiked while sliding at second base the previous inning. He will receive a five-game suspension for his outburst.
- 1B Brandon Moss collects five RBIs to lead the A's to an 11 - 5 win over the Angels. It is Oakland's seventh straight win.
- 2014 - As usual, sparks fly in the first meeting of the season between the Yankees and Red Sox. New York defeats Boston, 4 - 1, behind the pitching of Michael Pineda, but Boston's broadcasters claim they have detected pine tar on Pineda's pitching hand. The Yankees' hurler dismisses the claim, saying it is just sweat mixed with dirt, while umpire Brian O'Nora states that nothing of concern was brought to his attention.
- 2015:
- Mark Buehrle wins the 200th game of his career as the Blue Jays spoil the Orioles' home opener, 12 - 4. Buehrle allows two runs in six innings, while the Jays bang out 16 hits, including eight doubles, and collect four sacrifice flies in roughing up Bud Norris and three relievers.
- The Yankees and Red Sox lock horns in a 19-inning marathon, the game ending with the Red Sox coming out on top, 6 - 5, at 2:13 AM. The game is further lengthened by a 16-minute delay caused by a power outage in the 12th inning at New Yankee Stadium. Chase Headley forces extra innings with a homer off Edward Mujica with two outs in the bottom of the 9th, then David Ortiz and Mark Teixeira exchange solo homers in the 16th, and both teams score once in the 18th as well, further extending the game. Xander Bogaerts scores the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Mookie Betts, and this time Steven Wright, in his fifth inning of relief work, keeps the Yankees from replying.
- 2017:
- After a wait of 108 years, a two-hour rain delay pushes back the ceremony to raise the Cubs' 2016 World Championship banner at Wrigley Field a little bit more, but a boisterous sellout crowd is on hand to see 1B Anthony Rizzo be the first player to raise the flag and to take the World Series Trophy on the field. Rizzo is then the hero of the home opener, as his 9th-inning single off Kenley Jansen of the Dodgers drives in the winning run in a 3 - 2 win.
- Wil Myers becomes the first player to hit for the cycle this year, doing so in the Padres' 5 - 3 win over the Rockies. He is only the second player in team history to pull off the feat following Matt Kemp in 2015.
- 2018 - The Red Sox win their first confrontation of the season with their arch rivals the Yankees by knockout. The 14 - 1 victory is Boston's ninth straight win after a loss on Opening Day, and is highlighted by a nine-run 6th inning, the most runs allowed by New York in an inning in two decades. Mookie Betts goes 4 for 4, scores five runs and hits a grand slam in the big inning to lead the Sox.
- 2019 - The surprising Mariners continue to be the hottest team in the majors, improving to 12-2 with a 6 - 5 win over the Royals. Mitch Haniger hits a tie-breaking homer with two outs in the 9th, and Seattle has now homered in its first 14 games matching the 2002 Indians as the only two teams ever to do so. For Kansas City, which suffers its ninth straight loss, Whit Merrifield sets a new team record by extending his hitting streak to 31 games, dating back to last season, with a bunt single in the 7th. The record had previously been held by Royals legend George Brett.
- 2020 - With no baseball being played because of the coronavirus pandemic, MLB sets up a virtual league, with one player from each of the 30 teams playing a three-inning game on the video game platform MLB The Show against his 29 opponents. In the opening contest today, Blake Snell, representing the Rays faces off against Amir Garrett of the Reds.
- 2021 - Marin Pschoor becomes the first female head coach (manager) in the Austrian Baseball League, as her Dornbirn Indians sweep the ASAK Athletics Attnang-Puchheim. Ryan Rupp fans ten in the 4 - 1 win in the first half of a doubleheader, while Lochlan Southee wins the nightcap, backed by the hitting and relief of Chris Squires.
- 2022 - 20-year-old Roki Sasaki of the Chiba Lotte Marines throws the first regular-season perfect game in Nippon Pro Baseball in 28 years (there had been a combined effort in the 2007 Japan Series), striking out 19 Orix Buffaloes batters - including 13 straight - in an absolutely dominant performance. He ties Koji Noda's league record for most strikeouts in a game, and sets a new one for consecutive Ks; the old mark of nine had stood for 65 years. He credits his catcher, 18-year-old rookie Ko Matsukawa, for guiding him through the performance. Sasaki is the youngest pitcher to throw a perfecto in NPB to this point.
- 2023 - In an 11 - 2 win over the Royals, Andrew Heaney of the Rangers ties the American League record with nine consecutive strikeouts, starting in the 1st inning. Matt Duffy breaks the streak by flying out in the 4th. Ironically, as a member of the Cubs, Duffy was also the batter who broke the string of ten straight strikeouts by Corbin Burnes of the Brewers on August 11, 2021, a streak that tied the major league record.
- 2024 - On National Siblings Day, brothers Josh and Bo Naylor both homer in the 4th inning of the Guardians' game against the White Sox. It is only the tenth recorded instance of brothers homering in the same inning, the previous time having been accomplished by the same pair the previous July. The two long balls help to erase a five-run deficit, and in the 10th inning, Josh drives in the game-tying run with a double, before Bo hits a single with the bases loaded to end the game with a 7 - 6 win for Cleveland.
Births[edit]
- 1840 - Adam Wirth, umpire (d. 1912)
- 1847 - George Keerl, infielder (d. 1923)
- 1862 - Ed Ford, infielder (d. 1931)
- 1868 - Tom Parrott, outfielder (d. 1932)
- 1879 - Tom Barry, pitcher (d. 1946)
- 1879 - Nick Kahl, infielder (d. 1959)
- 1880 - Cliff Blankenship, catcher (d. 1956)
- 1882 - Art Loudell, pitcher (d. 1961)
- 1883 - Tex Pruiett, pitcher (d. 1953)
- 1885 - Cliff Daringer, infielder (d. 1971)
- 1885 - Nobori Inoue, commissioner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1971)
- 1892 - Doc Sykes, pitcher (d. 1986)
- 1893 - Walter Ancker, pitcher (d. 1954)
- 1894 - Harry Kenyon, pitcher/outfielder, manager (d. 1973)
- 1895 - Bob McGraw, pitcher (d. 1978)
- 1897 - Joe Price, outfielder (d. 1961)
- 1897 - Ross Youngs, outfielder; Hall of Famer (d. 1927)
- 1898 - Tom Jenkins, outfielder (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Rudy Kneisch, pitcher (d. 1965)
- 1900 - John Latting, infielder (d. 1969)
- 1905 - Ed Strelecki, pitcher (d. 1968)
- 1906 - Howdy Groskloss, infielder (d. 2006)
- 1907 - Cliff Bolton, catcher (d. 1979)
- 1907 - Cowan Hyde, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2003)
- 1909 - Jim Spotts, catcher (d. 1964)
- 1911 - Roger Wolff, pitcher (d. 1994)
- 1913 - Lloyd Russell, pinch runner (d. 1968)
- 1917 - Mitsuo Uno, NPB infielder and manager (d. 1994)
- 1918 - Ichiro Hara, NPB catcher (d. WWII)
- 1919 - Dickey Martin, scout (d. 2003)
- 1921 - Chuck Connors, infielder (d. 1992)
- 1925 - Pete Milne, outfielder (d. 1999)
- 1928 - Frankie Pack, pinch hitter (d. 2000)
- 1930 - Frank Lary, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2017)
- 1933 - Robert Nederlander, owner
- 1934 - David Halberstam, author (d. 2007)
- 1934 - Wes Stock, pitcher
- 1935 - Joe Gibbon, pitcher (d. 2019)
- 1936 - Hans-Norbert Jäger, Bundesliga infielder; German Hall of Fame
- 1937 - Fritz Ackley, pitcher (d. 2002)
- 1938 - Akihito Kondo, NPB infielder and manager (d. 2019)
- 1938 - Genichi Murata, NPB pitcher
- 1946 - Phil Hennigan, pitcher (d. 2016)
- 1946 - Leroy Stanton, outfielder (d. 2019)
- 1946 - Bob Watson, infielder; All-Star (d. 2020)
- 1947 - Hisaaki Fukushima, NPB catcher
- 1948 - Lee Lacy, outfielder
- 1949 - Tom Lundstedt, catcher
- 1949 - Pete Varney, catcher
- 1950 - Ken Griffey, outfielder; All-Star
- 1954 - Hector Eduardo, minor league pitcher
- 1954 - Wen-Te Hung, Chinese Taipei national team infielder
- 1958 - Edmundas Matusevičius, Lithuanian baseball pioneer
- 1961 - Bill Gayton, scout
- 1962 - Katsumi Hirosawa, Olympian; NPB slugger
- 1963 - Mike Devereaux, outfielder
- 1963 - Marvin Freeman, pitcher
- 1963 - Jeff Gray, pitcher
- 1964 - Eric King, pitcher
- 1965 - Bruce Egloff, pitcher
- 1965 - Chuck Everson, minor league pitcher
- 1966 - Paul Abbatinozzi, minor league catcher
- 1967 - Mike Humphreys, outfielder
- 1967 - Kerry Knox, minor league pitcher
- 1968 - Jong-Hun Jang, infielder
- 1970 - Rob Butler, outfielder
- 1970 - Ricardo Jimenez, Philippines national team outfielder
- 1970 - Doug Pettit, minor league pitcher
- 1970 - Al Reyes, pitcher
- 1972 - Shayne Bennett, pitcher
- 1972 - Takanori Suzuki, NPB outfielder
- 1975 - Mike Lincoln, pitcher
- 1975 - Peter Stroobants, First Division outfielder
- 1976 - Norihiro Akahoshi, NPB outfielder
- 1979 - Tariq Nadeem, Pakistani national team pitcher
- 1980 - Paulo Ayfan, Guatemalan national team infielder
- 1981 - Chien-Hung Kuo, CPBL pitcher
- 1982 - Chris Dickerson, outfielder
- 1982 - Andre Ethier, outfielder; All-Star
- 1982 - Colt Morton, catcher
- 1984 - Rigoberto Catuy, minor league outfielder
- 1984 - Norihito Kaneto, NPB pitcher
- 1984 - Jose Lugo, minor league pitcher
- 1984 - Mike Musgrave, minor league pitcher
- 1985 - Jonathan Diaz, infielder
- 1985 - Ming-Chieh Hsu, CPBL pitcher
- 1985 - Craig Maddox, minor league catcher
- 1985 - Clayton Mortensen, pitcher
- 1986 - Corey Kluber, pitcher; All-Star
- 1986 - Josh Mazzola, minor league infielder
- 1987 - Sebastián García, Argentinian national team outfielder
- 1987 - Casey Gaynor, minor league pitcher
- 1987 - Ryan Verdugo, pitcher
- 1988 - Chris Dwyer, pitcher
- 1988 - Chris Heston, pitcher
- 1988 - Matty Johnson, minor league outfielder
- 1989 - Charlie Culberson, infielder
- 1989 - Tomoya Mikami, NPB pitcher
- 1990 - Lesther Galván, minor league outfielder
- 1990 - Leonardo Reginatto, minor league infielder
- 1992 - Dominic Ficociello, minor league infielder
- 1993 - Liarvis Breto, minor league pitcher
- 1994 - Geonel Gutiérrez, Cuban league pitcher
- 1994 - Ryo Kinami, Japanese national team catcher
- 1994 - Gayan Tharindu, Sri Lankan national team infielder
- 1995 - Muhammad Amjad Aslam, Pakistani national team pitcher
- 1995 - Rayden Sierra, minor league infielder
- 1996 - Scott Blewett, pitcher
- 1996 - Jake Burger, infielder
- 1996 - Maite Despaigne, Cuban women's national team pitcher
- 1996 - Nerluis Martinez, minor league catcher and manager
- 1997 - Antonio Horvatic, Bundesliga infielder
- 1997 - Gabriel Montenegro, Guatemalan national team outfielder
- 1998 - Kenjiro Sugiura, French Division I pitcher
- 1999 - Koki Kitayama, NPB pitcher
- 1999 - Carlos Valero, signed pitcher
- 2000 - Nic Kent, minor league infielder
- 2001 - Everson Pereira, outfielder
- 2002 - Thomas Saggese, infielder
- 2003 - Andrew Painter, minor league pitcher
- 2005 - Musharaf Khan, Pakistani national team pitcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1882 - William Hulbert Hall of Famer (b. 1832)
- 1888 - Denny Mack, infielder, manager (b. 1850)
- 1901 - John Hiland, infielder (b. 1860)
- 1908 - Mike Griffin, outfielder, manager (b. 1865)
- 1918 - Owen Shannon, catcher (b. 1879)
- 1923 - Jay Faatz, infielder, manager (b. 1859)
- 1923 - Jim Gill, infielder/outfielder (b. 1865)
- 1931 - Mickey Hughes, pitcher (b. 1866)
- 1932 - Fred Pfeffer, infielder, manager (b. 1860)
- 1934 - Bill Hunter, outfielder (b. 1887)
- 1935 - Pat Hartnett, infielder (b. 1863)
- 1940 - Tom Seaton, pitcher (b. 1887)
- 1945 - James Breen, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1871)
- 1954 - Frank Belt, minor league player, manager (b. 1870)
- 1955 - Curt Bernard, outfielder (b. 1878)
- 1956 - Ginger Beaumont, outfielder (b. 1876)
- 1956 - Bill Brady, pitcher (b. 1889)
- 1958 - Hod Leverette, pitcher (b. 1889)
- 1961 - Jim Kelly, outfielder (b. 1884)
- 1962 - Milt Watson, pitcher (b. 1890)
- 1963 - Jim Wright, pitcher (b. 1900)
- 1964 - Moses Yellow Horse, pitcher (b. 1898)
- 1969 - Scotty Robb, umpire (b. 1908)
- 1980 - Hal Sayles, minor league executive (b. 1911)
- 1982 - Alonzo Boone, pitcher, manager (b. 1908)
- 1982 - Prez Jones, college coach (b. 1905)
- 1983 - Chet Johnson, pitcher (b. 1917)
- 1984 - Karl Spooner, pitcher (b. 1931)
- 1985 - Yoshio Tanaka, NPB catcher and manager (b. 1907)
- 1986 - Luther Harvel, outfielder (b. 1905)
- 1991 - Sammy Holbrook, catcher (b. 1910)
- 1992 - G.F. Laird, college coach (b. 1902)
- 1993 - Bobby Byrne Jr., minor league outfielder (b. 1917)
- 1995 - Billy Myers, infielder (b. 1910)
- 1997 - Dong-yeop Kim, KBO manager (b. 1938)
- 1998 - Kazuo Kasahara, NPB outfielder and manager (b. 1920)
- 2007 - Dick Kryhoski, infielder (b. 1925)
- 2011 - Ritsuo Yamashita, NPB pitcher (b. 1944)
- 2012 - Andy Replogle, pitcher (b. 1953)
- 2013 - Joe Lehan, minor league infielder (b. 1915)
- 2013 - Greg Maysonet, minor league pitcher (b. 1964)
- 2015 - Bobby Moore, pitcher (b. 1958)
- 2018 - Arnoldo Armenta, Mexican national team outfielder (b. ~1940)
- 2018 - Frank Saia, minor league infielder (b. 1935)
- 2022 - Don Flynn, college coach (b. 1939)
- 2022 - Joe Horlen, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1937)
- 2023 - Rick Wolff, college coach (b. 1951)
- 2024 - Gordy Lund, infielder (b. 1941)
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