April 18
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on April 18.
Events[edit]
- 1899 - At age 26, John McGraw makes his managerial debut with the Baltimore Orioles of the National League. McGraw leads them to a 5 - 3 victory over the New York Giants, a team he will later manage for more than 30 years.
- 1916 - Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Philadelphia Phillies pitches his first of 16 shutouts of the season against the Boston Braves.
- 1923 - The debut of Yankee Stadium is a huge success with an announced attendance of 74,217. Bob Shawkey of the Yankees, aided by a three-run home run by Babe Ruth, beats Howard Ehmke and the Red Sox, 4 - 1. President Warren G. Harding travels from Washington, DC to throw the ceremonial first pitch.
- 1925 - Brooklyn Robins owner Charles Ebbets dies of a heart attack at his Waldorf-Astoria Hotel apartment at the age of 64. Later in the day, his team opens the home season losing to the New York Giants at Ebbets Field, 7 - 0.
- 1929 - At Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth hits a home run in his first at-bat since his marriage the day before. As he rounds second base, he tips his hat to his new bride, Claire Merritt Hodgson.
- 1939 - Announcer Red Barber calls the action in the Brooklyn Dodgers' 7 - 3 loss to the New York Giants, marking the first time a regular-season Brooklyn game is broadcast on the radio.
- 1942 - Due to the fear of a Japanese attack, west coast military leaders ask the Pacific Coast League to limit crowds to 3,000 fans.
- 1946 - Jackie Robinson makes his minor league debut for the Montreal Royals, the International League affiliate club of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In becoming the first openly black person to play Organized Baseball in the 20th century, Robinson bangs out a home run and three singles on his way to winning the league batting championship.
- 1950:
- The first opening night game is held in St. Louis. The Cardinals, behind a complete game by Gerry Staley and home runs from Red Schoendienst and Stan Musial, beat the Pirates, 4 - 2, at Sportsman's Park.
- At the Polo Grounds, Sam Jethroe becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Braves. A former Cleveland Buckeyes star, he goes 2 for 4, including a home run, to lead the Braves to an 11 - 4 beating of the New York Giants. Warren Spahn is the winner. Jethroe will go on to become National League Rookie of the Year after leading the majors in stolen bases.
- U.S. President Harry Truman throws out two balls at the Washington Senators opener - one left-handed and the other right-handed - then watches the Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 8 - 7. When rain starts falling in the 6th inning, he puts on a raincoat and remains to the end.
- At Fenway Park, Commissioner Happy Chandler gives Ted Williams his American League MVP Award, and then Governor Paul Dever tosses out the first ball. To the delight of 31,822 fans, Boston rips New York Yankees starter Allie Reynolds with a five-run 4th inning to drive him from the game and take a 9 - 0 lead. But the Yankees score four runs in the 6th off Mel Parnell and then, down 10 - 4, unload for nine runs in the 8th. Billy Martin becomes the first player in major league history to get two base hits in one inning in his first game. He doubles against Parnell in his first at-bat in the 8th inning, and then singles off Al Papai. Walt Masterson gives up Tommy Henrich's second triple of the game before giving way to four more Boston pitchers. Boo Ferriss, pitching in his last game, allows the last two runs in the 9th inning as the Yankees chalk up a 15 - 10 victory, the biggest blown lead the Red Sox have ever had at Fenway Park; on June 4, 1989, they'll blow a ten-run lead at home. Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Vern Stephens, and Bobby Doerr each have three hits. Don Johnson is the winning pitcher, his last victory for New York, with Joe Page pitching a perfect 8th and 9th innings in relief.
- 1952 - Stealing considerable thunder from Brooklyn's victorious home opener, a 7 - 6, 12-inning triumph, Willie Mays makes the catch he'll later call his greatest. The Associated Press reports: "Willie Mays, army-bound centerfielder of the New York Giants, astounded an opening day crowd of 31,032 fans at Ebbets Field with a sensational catch of a drive by Bobby Morgan in the 7th inning." With two out, two on and the Dodgers down by one, "the sophomore star made a diving, sliding catch of a sinking liner near the left centerfield wall that robbed Morgan of a potential triple."
- 1955 - Roberto Clemente's first major league home run arrives three games into his big league career, an inside-the-park home run off Giants southpaw Don Liddle.
- 1956 - Ed Rommel becomes the first major league umpire to wear glasses during a game as he arbitrates a contest between the Yankees and Senators.
- 1957 - Pitcher Luis Arroyo hits 8th and Bill Mazeroski 9th for the Pirates. It will be 51 years before another Pirate pitcher hits 8th when Paul Maholm does so in 2008. Manager Bobby Bragan had batted the pitcher 7th 20 games in a row in August-September of 1956.
- 1958 - The Los Angeles Dodgers play their first game at the Los Angeles Coliseum in front of a crowd of 78,672. Carl Erskine gets the win, besting Al Worthington and the San Francisco Giants, 6 - 5.
- 1962 - Hector Espino hits his first Mexican League home run. He will go down as the consensus top batter in the league during the 20th Century.
- 1964 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers strikes out the side on nine pitches, becoming the first pitcher in major league history to achieve the feat twice. In spite of this 3rd-inning dominance against the Cincinnati Reds, Koufax loses the game, 3 - 0.
- 1966 - At the Astrodome, the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers play the first regular season game on Astroturf as the Dodgers defeat the Astros, 6 - 3. Don Sutton earns his first major league victory while fellow future Hall of Famer Robin Roberts takes the loss.
- 1970 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 batters and pitches a one-hitter as the New York Mets defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7 - 0, at Shea Stadium. It is the first shutout of Ryan's career.
- 1971 - Less than 24 hours after hitting his first two major league home runs, Atlanta rookie Earl Williams becomes the first player ever to reach the upper deck at Veterans Stadium, depositing a 2-and-1 offering from Philly starter Rick Wise "in the first row of the orange seats (middle section) of the upper deck," tucked just inside the left-field foul pole. The 4th-inning, bases-empty blast ties the game at 2, combining with a red-hot Orlando Cepeda, who goes 5-for-5 with a double, home run and three RBI, to lead Atlanta to a third straight win and a series sweep over the lowly Phils.
- 1977 - Poza Rica Oilers hurler Ricardo Sandate works a Mexican League-record 19 innings but loses a 2 - 0 decision to the Puebla Angels.
- 1981:
- In International League action at McCoy Stadium, the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings start the longest game in baseball history. The game is suspended at 4:07 AM the next day, after playing to a 2 - 2 tie through 32 innings. The game will be resumed in June with the Red Sox scoring the winning run in the 33rd inning. The 33-inning contest will last a total of 8 hours and 25 minutes.
- Tom Seaver of the Cincinnati Reds notches the 3,000th strikeout of his Hall of Fame career. Seaver strikes out Keith Hernandez of the St. Louis Cardinals, joining Bob Gibson, Walter Johnson, Gaylord Perry, and Nolan Ryan as members of the exclusive pitching club.
- 1982 - At the Astrodome, the Atlanta Braves defeat the Houston Astros, 6 - 5, to set a National League record as they win their 11th straight game to start the season. Al Hrabosky is the winner and Rick Camp earns the save. Dave Smith is the loser.
- 1987:
- Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies hits his 500th home run off Don Robinson with two outs in the 9th inning to rally the Phillies to an 8 - 6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium.
- Félix Benavides hits three triples for the Mineros against Las Villas, the first player to perform the feat in Cuba, at least since the Cuban revolution.
- 1991 - A sellout crowd of 42,191 watches the Chicago White Sox play their first game at New Comiskey Park and sees the home team get crushed by the Detroit Tigers, 16 - 0. Jack McDowell gives up the park's first home run to Cecil Fielder.
- 1997 - Roger Pavlik of the Texas Rangers becomes the first pitcher in American League history to walk the first four batters of the game in a 6 - 5 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
- 2000:
- Adam Kennedy of the Anaheim Angels ties a club record with eight RBI and comes within a double of the cycle as Anaheim defeats Toronto at the SkyDome, 16 - 10.
- During a LG Twins-Lotte Giants game, Lotte backstop Soo-hyuk Lim collapses due to an irregular heartbeat. He does not receive CPR in a timely manner and lapses into a coma. His family will sue both teams over not providing proper care; Lim will die ten years later, never having awakened from the coma.
- 2005:
- The New York Yankees score 13 runs in the 2nd inning of a 19 - 8 victory over Tampa Bay. The last time New York scored 13 runs in an inning was on June 21, 1945, in the 5th inning of a 14 - 4 victory against Boston.
- Tim Hudson outpitches Roger Clemens, and rookie Ryan Langerhans pinch-hits an inside-the-park home run in the 12th inning off Dan Wheeler, to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 1 - 0 victory over the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park.
- 2006:
- Hanley Ramirez of the Florida Marlins hits his first major league home run, and later adds a second blast, collecting four RBI in Florida's 12 - 6 victory over Cincinnati.
- Luis González of the Arizona Diamondbacks doubles to become the 21st major leaguer with 300 home runs and 500 doubles, as the Diamondbacks defeat San Francisco, 7 - 4. Gonzalez joins a list led by Hank Aaron, who hit 755 homers and 624 doubles. The only other active player in the group is Barry Bonds, who hits his 567th double in the game.
- For the first time since their first month of play, the Houston Astros have a .500 franchise record. With a 13 - 12 victory against the Milwaukee Brewers, the Astros become the 13th team in the majors with a record of .500 or better. The victory puts the franchise at .500 for the first time since the Colt .45s, as the team was known, were 6-6 before a 2 - 1 loss to the Milwaukee Braves on April 27, 1962. The franchise record is 3,507-3,507. Carlos Lee goes 4 for 5 with a pair of two-run home runs for Milwaukee.
- The Kansas City Royals have lost nine games in a row following a 4 - 1 defeat to the Chicago White Sox, their longest skid since their team-record 19-game losing streak late last year. The Royals are a major league-worst 2-11.
- 2009 - Cleveland crushes the New York Yankees, 22 - 4, at New Yankee Stadium, scoring 14 runs in the 2nd inning, the most runs given up in an inning in Yankee history. Asdrubal Cabrera hits a grand slam, Mark DeRosa and Shin-Soo Choo add three-run home runs, and Travis Hafner, Grady Sizemore and Victor Martinez all connect for solo shots for the Indians. Yankee starter Chien-Ming Wang, who missed the second half of 2008 with a leg injury, is charged with eight runs in 1 1/3 innings to raise his ERA for the year to 34.50. Making his major league debut, Anthony Claggett succeeds him but gives up eight more runs in 1 2/3 innings.
- 2010:
- Jason Heyward, 20-year-old rookie outfielder for the Braves, continues to be one of baseball's biggest stories this young season. Today, he knocks in the winning run with a two-out single in the bottom of the 9th in Atlanta's 4 - 3 win over Colorado. His 15 RBI put him in a tie for second place in the National League even though he is hitting seventh in the batting order.
- One day after playing a marathon 20-inning contest, the Cardinals' bullpen gets some rest as Adam Wainwright pitches a complete game for a 5 - 3 win over the Mets. Colby Rasmus and Ryan Ludwick's homers account for all of St. Louis's runs; Wainwright helps his own cause by doubling ahead of Ludwick's blast in the 8th. For their part, the Mets designate 1B Mike Jacobs for assignment before the game in order to call up P Tobi Stoner from AAA Buffalo. Jacobs has become redundant because of the rapid development of prospect Ike Davis, who will be called up to the majors tomorrow. Stoner is the losing pitcher in his only game of the season, in spite of giving up only one run in 2 1/3 innings of work with the Mets' bullpen also burnt out from yesterday's game.
- A pro baseball world record comes to an end. Tomoaki Kanemoto of the Hanshin Tigers, hitting .167, asks to be left out of the lineup, ending a run of 1,492 games in a row playing every single inning. He pinch-hits later in the contest to keep his consecutive game played streak alive.
- 2011:
- The Giants give ace Tim Lincecum a big early lead at Coors Field, but the two-time Cy Young Award winner does not need all the help. He keeps the hot-hitting Rockies hitless until the 7th on his way to an 8 - 1 win. Colorado starter Esmil Rogers gives up eight runs in three innings to remove any doubt about the day's outcome, and the remaining tension is broken when Carlos Gonzalez singles with one out in the 7th. Lincecum leaves after giving up a run with two outs in the 8th, and Ryan Vogelsong gets the final four outs. Pat Burrell and Nate Schierholtz homer for San Francisco.
- Reds P Mike Leake is arrested in a downtown Cincinnati department store when he attempts to shoplift $60 worth of merchandise. He allegedly removed security tags on six tee-shirts before walking out of the store without paying, but was caught by security cameras.
- 2012:
- Bartolo Colon displays a rare mastery of the strike zone in shutting out the Angels, 6 - 0. At one point, Colon throws 38 consecutive strikes, the longest such streak since all pitches were first recorded in 1988. Yoenis Cespedes hits a three-run homer for Oakland, giving him 12 RBI in his first 12 major league games.
- Two of the National League's top pitchers battle it out in San Francisco, as the Phillies' Cliff Lee and the Giants' Matt Cain trade zeroes for a combined 19 innings. Melky Cabrera hits an RBI single off Antonio Bastardo in the 11th, scoring Brandon Belt from second base, to give the Giants a 1 - 0 victory.
- José Dariel Abreu hits his 35th homer of the 2011-2012 Serie Nacional, tying Alfredo Despaigne for the league lead (and the all-time record). Despaigne will tack on one more homer to reclaim the lead and the record before the season ends.
- 2013:
- Matt Wieters hits a walk-off grand slam off Brandon Gomes in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Orioles a 10 - 6 win over Tampa Bay. It is Baltimore's 17th consecutive win in extra innings, including 16 last season.
- The Yankees get some bad news when they learn that SS Derek Jeter will not be back until the second half of the year after x-rays reveal a small fracture in the surgically-repaired ankle he broke in last year's ALCS.
- 2014:
- Aaron Harang pitches seven no-hit innings for the Braves against the Mets, but has to leave the game after having thrown 121 pitches. David Wright hits a two-out single off Luis Avilan in the 8th for the Mets' only hit as three pitchers combine on a one-hitter in a 6 - 0 win.
- In the 6th inning of the Brewers' game at Pittsburgh, Martin Maldonado literally knocks the cover off the ball. He smacks a ground ball to 3B Pedro Alvarez, but the stitches on the baseball come apart and Alvarez is left attempting to throw a ball with a chunk of leather flapping off. Maldonado easily beats the fluttering throw for an infield single. The Brewers win the game, 5 - 3.
- 2017:
- The Pirates are dealt a huge blow as All-Star CF Starling Marte is handed an 80-game suspension for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.
- Wei-Yin Chen and relievers Brad Ziegler and Kyle Barraclough combine to one-hit the Mariners, 5 - 0. Mitch Haniger breaks the no-hit spell with a one-out double off Barraclough in the 9th. It's the second time in three days that the Marlins have taken a combined no-hitter into the late innings, as on April 16th, Dan Straily and three relievers had turned the trick on the Mets until Ziegler gave up a hit with two outs in the 8th.
- 2018 - Owners of the worst record in the majors at 3-15, the Reds fire manager Bryan Price following a 2 - 0 loss to the Brewers. Jim Riggleman will take over as skipper to complete the season.
- 2019:
- Amsterdam Pirates hurler Rob Cordemans becomes the first pitcher in Hoofdklasse history to strike out 2,000 batters in his career, when he gets Jochem Koedijk of Neptunus. It is a bright spot in a loss for the 44-year-old veteran.
- Will Benson has a four-homer game playing for the Lake County Captains of the Class A Midwest League. He finishes 4-for-5 with eight RBIs in a 12 - 6 win over South Bend. His night's work includes a grand slam in the 4th inning.
- 2023:
- Clayton Kershaw records the 200th win of his career with a typical performance, holding the Mets scoreless over seven innings while racking up nine strikeouts in a 5 - 0 Dodgers win. At 200-88, Kershaw is just the fourth pitcher of the modern era to record his 200th win before having 100 losses, following Whitey Ford, Lefty Grove and Pedro Martinez.
- The Atlantic League, which is now a partner league of Major League Baseball, will test out a number of potential rule changes this season, including: a designated pinch-runner, who can freely substitute for any baserunner at any point of the game without either player losing the ability to re-enter the game at a later time; limiting pitchers to a single disengagement from the mound per at-bat, instead of the current two; and tying the presence of the designated hitter in the game to that of the starting pitcher (i.e., after the starting pitcher leaves the game, the subsequent pitcher or a pinch-hitter must come to bat when the spot previously occupied by the DH comes up).
- 2024 - Two-way player Jac Caglianone of the University of Florida continues to stake a claim as the best college player in the country this year, as he homers in his eighth straight game, bringing him within one game of the NCAA record. He is batting .400 with 21 homers in 36 games as a hitter, and is 4-0 as a pitcher; he is expected to be a top five pick in the 2024 amateur draft. He will homer again tomorrow to make it nine straight games.
Births[edit]
- 1856 - Ernie Hickman, pitcher (d. 1891)
- 1862 - George Dovey, owner (d. 1909)
- 1864 - Fred Doe, pitcher (d. 1938)
- 1869 - George Borchers, pitcher (d. 1938)
- 1871 - Charles Lanigan, umpire (d. 1918)
- 1871 - Frank Navin, owner (d. 1935)
- 1872 - Jack Rothfuss, infielder (d. 1946)
- 1873 - Danny Friend, pitcher (d. 1942)
- 1873 - Hughie Hearne, catcher (d. 1932)
- 1880 - Sam Crawford, outfielder; Hall of Famer (d. 1968)
- 1884 - Mickey LaLonge, minor league catcher and manager (d. ????)
- 1887 - Charles Donnelly, umpire (d. 1968)
- 1887 - Bill Rodgers, infielder (d. 1978)
- 1888 - Duffy Lewis, outfielder (d. 1979)
- 1888 - Tommy McMillan, infielder (d. 1966)
- 1892 - Jack Scott, pitcher (d. 1959)
- 1893 - William Marriott, infielder (d. 1969)
- 1895 - Hans Rasmussen, pitcher (d. 1949)
- 1896 - Rip Conway, infielder (d. 1972)
- 1898 - Perry Hall, infielder (d. 1993)
- 1899 - Bill Bayne, pitcher (d. 1981)
- 1899 - Harry Hulihan, pitcher (d. 1980)
- 1903 - Bob Linton, catcher (d. 1980)
- 1905 - Mal Moss, pitcher (d. 1983)
- 1908 - Ed Boland, outfielder (d. 1993)
- 1912 - Vincent Mullen, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1970)
- 1915 - Herman Bell, catcher (d. 1970)
- 1917 - Ty LaForest, infielder (d. 1947)
- 1917 - Nick Polly, infielder (d. 1993)
- 1917 - Vince Ventura, outfielder (d. 2001)
- 1919 - Bob Ferguson, pitcher (d. 2008)
- 1922 - Moe Burtschy, pitcher (d. 2004)
- 1924 - Jim Zapp, outfielder (d. 2016)
- 1927 - Glen Richardson, infielder (d. 2017)
- 1929 - Steve Kraly, pitcher (d. 2016)
- 1934 - Deacon Jones, infielder (d. 2023)
- 1936 - Larry Foss, pitcher (d. 2019)
- 1938 - Rogelio Alvarez, infielder (d. 2012)
- 1939 - Von McDaniel, pitcher (d. 1995)
- 1942 - Steve Blass, pitcher; All-Star
- 1942 - Chuck Taylor, pitcher (d. 2018)
- 1943 - Hiroshi Kito, NPB outfielder
- 1944 - Shyam Das, arbitrator
- 1944 - Elpidio Mancebo, Serie Nacional infielder
- 1945 - Mike Paul, pitcher
- 1945 - Donald Van Deusen, minor league infielder
- 1946 - Gerry Janeski, pitcher
- 1948 - Ron Schueler, pitcher
- 1949 - Yasujiro Suzuki, NPB pitcher
- 1951 - Doug Flynn, infielder
- 1955 - Bobby Castillo, pitcher
- 1955 - Takayuki Kono, NPB infielder
- 1955 - Harry Steve, minor league executive
- 1956 - Chung-Ta Peng, Taiwan national team pitcher
- 1959 - Rich Bordi, pitcher
- 1959 - Jim Eisenreich, outfielder
- 1959 - Toshihiko Fujitaka, Japanese national team pitcher
- 1959 - Mark Gillaspie, minor league outfielder
- 1959 - Dennis Rasmussen, pitcher
- 1961 - Soon-chul Lee, KBO outfielder and manager
- 1963 - Alex Madrid, pitcher
- 1963 - Pete Stanicek, outfielder
- 1967 - Brian Dubois, pitcher (d. 2023)
- 1969 - Angelo Encarnacion, catcher
- 1969 - Katsuya Maeda, Japanese national team pitcher
- 1969 - Mark Gillaspie, minor league outfielder
- 1970 - Rico Brogna, infielder
- 1970 - Steve Dunn, infielder
- 1970 - Takahiro Saeki, NPB outfielder
- 1973 - Brady Clark, outfielder
- 1974 - Luis Scheker, scout
- 1974 - Fábio Takara, Brazilian national team pitcher
- 1977 - Randy Leek, minor league pitcher
- 1977 - Casey Moser, umpire
- 1978 - Michael Rosamond, minor league outfielder
- 1980 - J.M. Gold, minor league pitcher
- 1981 - Brian Buscher, infielder
- 1982 - Masahiro Abe, Japanese national team pitcher
- 1982 - Luis Barrientos, Peruvian national team infielder
- 1982 - Bart Hunton, minor league infielder (d. 2011)
- 1982 - Rafael Motooka, minor league catcher
- 1983 - Miguel Cabrera, outfielder; All-Star
- 1983 - Alberto Gonzalez, infielder
- 1983 - Matt Haynes, minor league pitcher
- 1983 - Mike Parisi, pitcher
- 1984 - Mark Kelly, minor league pitcher
- 1984 - Marcos Mateo, pitcher
- 1985 - John Allman, minor league player
- 1985 - Robelio Carrillo, Cuban National League pitcher
- 1985 - Ryan Curry, minor league infielder
- 1986 - Billy Butler, outfielder; All-Star
- 1986 - Takahiro Iwamoto, NPB outfielder
- 1986 - Jeff Katz, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Greg Lane, minor league pitcher
- 1987 - Nestor Ceja, umpire
- 1987 - Leonardo De Donno, Italian Baseball League outfielder
- 1989 - Rik Geestman, Hoofdklasse pitcher
- 1989 - Vinicio Gonzalez, Guatemalan national team pitcher
- 1989 - Felipe Sales, Brazilian national team pitcher
- 1990 - Henderson Alvarez, pitcher; All-Star
- 1990 - Anthony DeSclafani, pitcher
- 1990 - Kyle Lindquist, minor league coach
- 1990 - Evan Marshall, pitcher
- 1990 - José Rivera, minor league infielder
- 1991 - Yoidania Castro, Cuban women's national team pitcher
- 1991 - Juan Carlos Gamboa, minor league infielder
- 1991 - Nick Van Thillo, First Division infielder
- 1992 - Niels Harteveld, Hoofdklasse pitcher
- 1992 - Muhammad Zohaib, Pakistani national team pitcher
- 1993 - Junpei Horimai, Japanese national team infielder
- 1994 - Luis Abad, minor league pitcher
- 1994 - Omar Obregón, minor league infielder
- 1994 - Matt Wheeler, minor league pitcher
- 1995 - Jake Rogers, catcher
- 1996 - Jhonny Pereda, catcher
- 1997 - Sebastián González, Ecuador national team catcher
- 1997 - Stephen Kolek, pitcher
- 1997 - Peter Lambert, pitcher
- 1999 - José Paula, minor league outfielder
- 2000 - Prelander Berroa, pitcher
- 2001 - Masaki Oyokawa, NPB pitcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1892 - Ned Bligh, catcher (b. 1864)
- 1893 - Fred Siefke, infielder (b. 1870)
- 1894 - Joseph Rastall, umpire (b. 1845)
- 1895 - Henry Myers, infielder, manager (b. 1858)
- 1902 - George Grosart, outfielder (b. 1880)
- 1904 - Charlie Ziegler, infielder (b. 1875)
- 1912 - Henry Gehring, pitcher (b. 1881)
- 1913 - Roscoe Miller, pitcher (b. 1876)
- 1914 - William Laughlin, umpire (b. 1854)
- 1920 - George McMillan, outfielder (b. 1863)
- 1925 - Charlie Ebbets, manager (b. 1859)
- 1926 - George Haddock, pitcher (b. 1866)
- 1927 - Pop Smith, infielder (b. 1856)
- 1930 - Jack Stivetts, pitcher (b. 1868)
- 1932 - Ike Benners, outfielder (b. 1856)
- 1937 - Hick Carpenter, infielder (b. 1855)
- 1951 - Dave Harris, minor league pitcher (b. 1884)
- 1953 - Harry Niles, outfielder (b. 1880)
- 1953 - Cotton Tierney, infielder (b. 1894)
- 1956 - Alwin Cummings, minor league pitcher (b. 1884)
- 1956 - Claude Davidson, infielder (b. 1896)
- 1956 - Patsy O'Rourke, infielder (b. 1881)
- 1957 - Zearlee Maxwell, infielder (b. 1902)
- 1957 - Wally Reinecker, infielder (b. 1890)
- 1957 - Bill Sweeney, infielder (b. 1904)
- 1958 - Hardin Herndon, minor league player and manager (b. 1892)
- 1962 - Takeo Sato, NPB catcher (b. 1916)
- 1970 - Tony York, infielder (b. 1912)
- 1971 - Russ Hodges, broadcaster (b. 1910)
- 1975 - Jack Burns, infielder (b. 1907)
- 1979 - Lindsay Deal, outfielder (b. 1911)
- 1983 - Woody Rich, pitcher (b. 1916)
- 1986 - George Durning, outfielder (b. 1898)
- 1990 - John Antonelli, infielder (b. 1915)
- 1991 - Sheldon Jones, pitcher (b. 1922)
- 1995 - Betty Emry, AAGPBL infielder and pitcher (b. 1923)
- 1996 - Chesley Gray, catcher (b. 1914)
- 1997 - Tim Bishop, minor league outfielder (b. 1976)
- 1998 - Walter Sessi, outfielder (b. 1918)
- 1999 - Sam Barber, pitcher (b. 1919)
- 2003 - Lefty Sloat, pitcher (b. 1918)
- 2005 - Agapito Mayor, minor league pitcher (b. 1915)
- 2006 - Monchín Pichardo, Dominican League executive (b. ????)
- 2009 - Will Hafey, minor league pitcher/outfielder (b. 1921)
- 2010 - Rafael Olivares, Venezuelan national team infielder (b. 1925)
- 2011 - Jimmy Arline, minor league outfielder (b. 1953)
- 2012 - John O'Neil, infielder (b. 1920)
- 2017 - Vic Albury, pitcher (b. 1947)
- 2018 - John Hope, pitcher (b. 1970)
- 2021 - Larry LaGarde, minor league outfielder (b. 1949)
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