April 22
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on April 22.
Events[edit]
- 1876 - In the first National League game ever played, Joe Borden of the Boston Red Caps beats the hometown Philadelphia Athletics team, 6 - 5.
- 1898 - On the same day, Ted Breitenstein of the Cincinnati Reds and Jay Hughes of the Baltimore Orioles each pitch no-hit ball games. Breitenstein's gem is against the Pittsburgh Pirates, 11 - 0, and Hughes over the Boston Beaneaters, 8 - 0.
- 1903:
- The American League formal Opening Day is played at Columbia Park, with the Philadelphia Athletics winning over the Boston Americans, 6 - 1, before 13,578. Rube Waddell bests Bill Dineen as AL President Ban Johnson presents the 1902 AL Championship pennant to the Athletics.
- At American League Park, the New York Highlanders lose their first game to the Washington Senators, 3 - 1, before 11,950 fans. Washington elects to bat first, but the New Yorkers score in the bottom of the opening inning to take a 1 - 0 lead. Each starter gives up six hits with Jack Chesbro, the National League's top winner last year (28-6) taking the loss. Al Orth, in his second season with Washington, is the winner.
- 1906 - A new baseball rule puts the umpire in sole charge of all game balls. The home team manager previously had some say as to when a new ball was introduced.
- 1908 - In the New York Giants home opener, 25,000 fans watch the Brooklyn Superbas take a 2 - 1 lead into the 9th inning against Christy Mathewson. But in the bottom, with Fred Tenney on first base, Mike Donlin hits a walk-off home run to give the Giants a 3 - 2 win.
- 1910 - The Boston Doves and Philadelphia Phillies combine for a major-league record fewest at-bats by two teams in a nine-inning game: 48 (25 for the Doves, 23 for the Phils). Boston wins, 3 - 0. The mark will be tied next year and topped in the American League in 1964.
- 1914 - At age 19, Babe Ruth plays his first professional game as a pitcher, as he throws a six-hit, 6 - 0 shutout for the Baltimore Orioles over the Buffalo Bisons in the International League. The second batter Ruth faces is Joe McCarthy, the manager he will play for 17 years later with the Yankees. Ruth is 2 for 4 at the plate in addition to his great pitching.
- 1915 - Pinstripes first appear on New York Yankees uniforms.
- 1916 - Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Jack Nabors tops the Boston Red Sox, 6 - 2. His only victory of the season evens his record at 1-1. Nabors will follow with 19 straight losses to set a major-league record. Teammate Tom Sheehan will be right behind him at 1-16.
- 1922 - At Sportsman's Park, Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hits three home runs and two singles in the Browns' 10 - 7 victory against the Chicago White Sox. Williams is the first American League player to hit three home runs in a game. Given a head start on the suspended Babe Ruth, he will take the American League home run and RBI titles and become the first 30-30 man, with 39 home runs and 37 stolen bases.
- 1923 - The first Sunday game at Yankee Stadium draws an estimated 60,000, but the Yankees suffer their first loss of the year, 4 - 3, to the Washington Senators.
- 1931 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees collides with Charlie Berry, Boston Red Sox catcher and former pro football player, while trying to score on a sacrifice fly. Ruth is carried off the field at Fenway Park and taken to a hospital.
- 1934 - Lon Warneke of the Chicago Cubs pitches his second consecutive one-hitter, beating the St. Louis Cardinals and Dizzy Dean, 15 - 2, at Sportsman's Park.
- 1937 - Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are among 18 black players who jump to the Dominican Republic league. Negro League owners regard this as desertion and plan to ban the players from the league. In May, Paige will be banned for life.
- 1944 - Akio Kanemitsu becomes the first player in Nippon Pro Baseball history to hit a home run in his first plate appearance; he will only hit one more in his career. The victimized pitcher is superstar Hideo Fujimoto.
- 1946 - Eddie Pellagrini of the Boston Red Sox hits a home run in his first major league at-bat, in a 5 - 4 Red Sox victory over the Washington Senators at Fenway Park.
- 1947 - Al Zarilla's single in the 7th inning is the only hit off Bob Feller as the Indians beat the Browns, 5 - 0, at Cleveland Stadium.
- 1955 - Though the Brooklyn Dodgers take a 3 - 0 lead into the 8th inning, their ten-game winning streak ends as the New York Giants win, 5 - 4. Don Zimmer is called out at home plate on a squeeze play by Jackie Robinson that would have tied the game.
- 1956 - New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen hits a grand slam off Frank Sullivan of the Boston Red Sox, as New York wins, 13 - 6, at Yankee Stadium.
- 1957 - John Kennedy becomes the first African-American to play for the Philadelphia Phillies, making them the last National League team to integrate. Kennedy pinch runs for Solly Hemus in the 5 - 1 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. He will play only briefly in five games, two at third base, and will go hitless.
- 1959:
- The Chicago White Sox, down 6 - 1 after two innings, score 11 runs with only one hit in the 7th inning of a 20 - 6 rout of the Kansas City Athletics. Johnny Callison has the hit - a single. In the inning, Chicago is the recipient of ten walks - five with the bases loaded - three Kansas City errors and one hit batsman. Nellie Fox collects five RBI, including two in the inning, both times by walking. He also goes 4 for 5 in the game, while Luis Aparicio is 3 for 4, including a three-run home run, and scores four runs. Jim Landis causes two outs, both on grounders to the pitcher, in the strange inning.
- At Griffith Stadium, Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees pitches a 14-inning, 1 - 0 shutout against the Washington Senators, giving up eight hits while striking out 15. The Yankees win in the first half of the 14th inning on a Moose Skowron solo home run.
- 1960 - A record opening day crowd of 53,563 at Briggs Stadium sees the Detroit Tigers chalk up their third straight win, 6 - 5, against the Chicago White Sox. Recently-acquired Rocky Colavito blasts a home run in his first at-bat with Detroit, and Eddie Yost adds a home run in the 5th inning.
- 1961 - At Comiskey Park, Pumpsie Green hits a home run in the 11th-inning as the Boston Red Sox snap a 13-game losing streak by edging the Chicago White Sox, 7 - 6.
- 1962 - The Pittsburgh Pirates win their tenth straight game, edging the New York Mets, 4 - 3, and matching the major-league record to start a season, while the Mets tie a National League record by opening 0-9.
- 1966 - The Braves win their first game in Atlanta by beating the Mets, 8 - 4.
- 1969 - In his first major league start, Rollie Fingers of the Oakland Athletics shuts out the Minnesota Twins, 7 - 0, at Metropolitan Stadium, stopping Minnesota's seven-game winning streak.
- 1970 - Tom Seaver of the New York Mets strikes out the last ten batters he faces in a 2 - 1 victory against the San Diego Padres. Seaver gives up only two hits and finishes with a total of 19 strikeouts, tying Steve Carlton's major league record. The ten consecutive strikeouts are a record that will be tied, but not bettered.
- 1975 - Billy Williams of the Oakland A's becomes the first player to collect the only hit for his team in five games, having the team's only two hits in a 2 - 1 loss against Fergie Jenkins of the Rangers. Williams also had the only hits while playing for the Chicago Cubs on September 24, 1961; July 5, 1966; September 5, 1969; and July 25, 1970. César Tovar and Eddie Milner will later join Williams as the only other players to achieve this particular feat.
- 1981 - Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela pitches his third shutout in four starts, strikes out 11, and has the game's only RBI with a single in a 1 - 0 win against the Houston Astros.
- 1982 - The Atlanta Braves' major league record for the fastest start is stopped at 13 straight victories when they lose, 2 - 1, to the Cincinnati Reds.
- 1985 - The Minnesota Twins collect 16 hits in a 9 - 5 victory over the Seattle Mariners. In the 4th inning, Kirby Puckett hits a three-run home run, his first homer in the majors, off Matt Young. After no homers last year, Puckett will hit four homers this season before blossoming into a power hitter with 31 next year.
- 1991:
- Frank Thomas is the first Chicago White Sox player to hit a home run at New Comiskey Park. Chicago is an 8 - 7 winner over the Baltimore Orioles.
- Robby Thompson of the San Francisco Giants hits for the cycle in a 7 - 5 loss to the San Diego Padres. Thompson triples in the 1st inning, hits a home run in the 3rd, singles in the 6th, and doubles in the 9th.
- 1993 - Chris Bosio pitches a no-hitter to give the Seattle Mariners a 7 - 0 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Bosio walks the first two batters he faces, then finishes the game by retiring the last 27 Red Sox in a row. He strikes out four in his 97-pitch gem.
- 1997 - After four months of on-and-off negotiations, the New York Yankees acquire the rights to Japanese pitcher Hideki Irabu from the San Diego Padres for $3 million. Irabu's team, the Chiba Lotte Marines, gave the Padres exclusive rights to the 27-year-old righthander, but Irabu refused to sign with them, saying he would only go to the Yankees.
- 1998 - Chicago White Sox second baseman Ray Durham ties a major league record by reaching base on an error three times in Chicago's 14 - 7 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Durham adds three hits with four runs and two RBI. Durham is also involved in two other plays in which he advances on errors - a stolen base in which he goes to third base on a throwing error, and he triples and scores on another error.
- 1999 - Tampa Bay defeats Baltimore, 1 - 0, as pitchers Tony Saunders, Jim Mecir and Roberto Hernández combine on a one-hitter. Mike Bordick's single with two outs in the 8th inning off Mecir is the only Baltimore hit.
- 2000 - The Colorado Rockies defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 7 - 6. Mark McGwire and Fernando Tatis hit home runs for St. Louis as the Cardinals set a National League mark for most home runs in the month of April with 42.
- 2007 - The Boston Red Sox complete their first sweep of the New York Yankees in Fenway Park in 17 years. Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek hit consecutive home runs, making it the fourth instance in major league history that four straight hitters have gone deep. The victim for all four gopher balls is Chase Wright, who ties the major league record for home runs allowed in an inning. Paul Foytack in 1963 had been the only prior pitcher to allow four straight homers in an inning.
- 2008 - John Smoltz becomes the 16th major league pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters. The 40-year-old Braves hurler gets Felipe Lopez swinging on a 2-2 offering in the 3rd for his 3,000th K. He is the sixth-quickest to the mark in terms of innings pitched (3,386). Smoltz fans ten in seven innings in this win, showing that age has not yet caught up to him.
- 2009:
- Boston sweeps a day-night doubleheader with the Minnesota Twins at Fenway Park. Tim Wakefield pitches a seven-inning rain-shortened complete game in the opener as the Red Sox win, 10 - 1, then Brad Penny earns the 7 - 3 win in the nitecap. In the second game, in his first at-bat since being recalled from AAA to replace the injured Rocco Baldelli, Jeff Bailey hits a three-run homer off Francisco Liriano, who falls to 0-4 for the year.
- There are two games in the Chinese Professional Baseball League and in both of them, one of the Chen brothers is named game MVP with four hits and four RBI apiece. Chin-Feng Chen goes 4 for 6 with two doubles and four RBI to lead the La New Bears to a 10 - 3 win over the Sinon Bulls, while Lien-Hung Chen goes 4 for 5 with a double, triple and four RBI to power the Uni-President Lions past the Brother Elephants, 17 - 3.
- 2010:
- The New York Yankees turn their first triple play since 1968 but still lose to the Oakland A's, 4 - 2, snapping a six-game winning streak.
- The Pirates suffer the most lopsided loss in team history, falling 20 - 0 to the Brewers, who complete a three-game sweep in which they outscored Pittsburgh 36 - 1. Milwaukee collects 25 hits; Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder and George Kottaras go deep, for the benefit of Randy Wolf.
- The Tampa Bay Rays improve their record to 12-4, the best in the majors, after completing a 9-1 road trip with a 10 - 2 win over the Chicago White Sox. James Shields is the winner as Carlos Pena drives in four runs.
- Former major league manager Kevin Kennedy, now working as a broadcaster for the Tampa Bay Rays, is suddenly thrust into the limelight, as he intervenes to stop a deranged man who threatens to blow up a flight between Los Angeles, CA and Tampa, FL. Kennedy is one of ten passengers who subdue the madman as the Delta Air Lines flight is diverted to Albuquerque, NM.
- 2011:
- The Marlins' Anibal Sanchez comes close to throwing the second no-hitter of his career, beating the Rockies, 4 - 1. The Rockies' lone run, which scores on a walk and a two-base error in the 1st, is unearned; Dexter Fowler is the only batter to get a hit off Sanchez with a 9th-inning single. Sanchez, who pitched a no-hitter in 2006, strikes out a career-high nine batters in the one-hitter.
- The Rangers hit five home runs by five different batters in five consecutive innings to down the Royals, 11 - 6. Mike Napoli, Ian Kinsler, David Murphy, Adrian Beltre and Mitch Moreland all take advantage of windy conditions at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington to go deep between the 3rd and 7th innings.
- The Brewers beat the Astros, 14 - 7, with Yovani Gallardo hitting his ninth career home run. It has taken him only 177 at-bats - the last major league pitcher to reach nine homers that fast was Don Drysdale (144 AB, 1958).
- In Italy, Nettuno's Kris Wilson throws a no-hitter against the North East Knights. He strikes out 17 and allows only one walk, to Danilo Sanchez, to cost himself a perfect game.
- 2012:
- The Rangers edge the Tigers, 3 - 2, on a controversial squeeze bunt in the 11th inning. The bases are loaded with no one out when Alberto Gonzalez squares up and lays the ball down right in front of him; it bounces and glances off his right knee, but the umpires miss it and the play is allowed to stand in spite of Detroit manager Jim Leyland's protests. After the game, home plate umpire Tim Welke will admit he missed the call and should have declared the play a foul ball. Thad Weber is charged with the loss in his major league debut as a result.
- Jordan Schafer hits his first career grand slam off the Dodgers' Chad Billingsley, who had already given up a two-run shot to Carlos Lee in the 1st. Staked to this comfortable early lead, Wandy Rodriguez cruises to a 12 - 0 win for the Astros, allowing only three hits in seven innings.
- Granma's Alfredo Despaigne wins the 2011-2012 Cuban home run title on the final day of the season. He hits his only inside-the-park shot of the year (and 36th total homer) off Alesky Perera in a 10 - 1 romp against Isla de la Juventud to break a tie with José Dariel Abreu at 35 homers.
- 2013:
- The Brewers record their eighth straight win after a 2-8 start, 7 - 1 over the Padres. The outcome is never in doubt, as the Brewers score five runs in the top of the 1st on homers by Ryan Braun and Yuniesky Betancourt. The Brewers manage only five hits all game, but still win handily. The only blip is a dislocated finger suffered in a baserunning collision with 2B Jedd Gyorko which forces P Kyle Lohse to leave in the top of the 6th inning, but not before he earns his first win as a Brewer.
- Felix Hernandez earns the 100th victory of his career as the Mariners defeat the Astros, 7 - 1. He is third on Seattle's all-time win list, behind Jamie Moyer (145) and Randy Johnson (130).
- 2014:
- Albert Pujols becomes the 26th member of the 500 Home Run Club as he goes deep twice against Taylor Jordan of the Washington Nationals, in the 1st and 5th innings. He is the first member of the fraternity to hit #499 and 500 in the same game. The Angels win, 7 - 2.
- Jose Fernandez continues to build on last year's Rookie of the Year season, as he matches a career high with 14 strikeouts over eight shutout innings in defeating the Braves, 1 - 0. Fernandez allows three hits and Steve Cishek adds a perfect 9th inning for the Marlins. Alex Wood is the unlucky loser, as he allows only four hits and no walks and strikes out 11 over eight innings, but a double by Giancarlo Stanton and a single by Casey McGehee in the 4th lead to the game's only run. The Braves and Marlins combine for 28 strikeouts and no walks; the Elias Sports Bureau reports that this is a record for most Ks without a walk since at least 1900.
- 2015 - The special appeals panel constituted to review Barry Bonds' 2011 conviction for obstruction of justice hands down its verdict, which overturns the charge. White this ends the judicial saga around his trial, it is unlikely to change voters' minds regarding his candidacy for the Hall of Fame.
- 2016 - Chris Colabello of the Blue Jays is suspended for 80 games for using a banned PED. Colabello came out of the independent leagues to become a big contributor to Toronto's division title in 2015.
- 2017:
- Tyler Mahle of the AA Pensacola Blue Wahoos needs only 89 pitches to throw a perfect game against the Mobile BayBears, 1 - 0. He strikes out eight in pitching the first perfect game in the Southern League since 1970.
- JaCoby Jones of the Tigers is hit in the face by a fastball from Justin Haley of the Twins in the 3rd inning, sending him to the hospital with facial lacerations. In the 5th, P Matthew Boyd throws a pitch behind Miguel Sano, who comes to blows with C James McCann while Boyd is ejected by umpire Mike Everitt, along with Sano. The Tigers, who also place 1B Miguel Cabrera on the disabled list before the game, win the game, 5 - 4.
- 2018 - Facing rookie Jaime Barria of the Angels in the 1st inning, Brandon Belt of the Giants forces him to throw a record 21 pitches before flying out to right field. The 12-minute battle features 16 consecutive foul balls at one point, in addition to four unsuccessful pick-off attempts at first base. The previous record was 20 pitches, in a 1998 confrontation between Ricky Gutierrez and Bartolo Colon, although detailed pitch counts have only been tracked since 1988, so there may have been longer at-bats before that which went unrecorded.
- 2020 - The Commissioner issues his findings in his investigation into allegations of sign-stealing by the 2018 Boston Red Sox, in the wake of a similar investigation into the illicit doings of the 2017 Houston Astros. While the investigation reveals that the Red Sox's scheme was more limited in scope than the Astros', it was still illegal, and the person responsible for the team's video room is issued a one-year suspension, while the team must forfeit its second-round selection in the 2020 amateur draft. While there is no additional punishment for manager Alex Cora, already handed a one-year suspension for his role with the Astros, his dismissal last January is made permanent by the team and his successor, Ron Roenicke, who had initially been appointed on an interim basis, has his title confirmed.
- 2023 - Adolis García has a career game in leading the Rangers to an 18 - 3 win over the Athletics. He homers three times in the first five innings, each time with a man on base, in addition to being hit by pitch, then hits a double in each of his final two plate appearances to finish with five hits, five runs, 16 total bases and eight RBIs.
- 2024 - Five pitches into the game between the Athletics and Yankees at New Yankee Stadium, Yankees manager Aaron Boone gets into an argument with home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt over a hit-by-pitch call on leadoff hitter Esteury Ruiz. Wendelstedt warns Boone he does not want to hear another word from him, then after turning to look at the pitcher, he evidently hears something as he immediately tosses out the manager. Boone comes out to argue that if anything was said, it was not by him - and indeed television replays and field-level microphones confirm that the offending words came from a fan seated in the front row - but the ejection stands.
Births[edit]
- 1865 - Bill Stellberger, pitcher (d. 1936)
- 1874 - Frank Figgemeier, pitcher (d. 1915)
- 1881 - Neal Ball, infielder (d. 1957)
- 1883 - Carl Vandagrift, infielder (d. 1920)
- 1884 - Bill Schwartz, infielder (d. 1961)
- 1887 - Sandy Burk, pitcher (d. 1934)
- 1889 - Tom Johnson, pitcher; umpire (d. 1926)
- 1891 - Billy Orr, infielder (d. 1967)
- 1892 - Ferd Eunick, infielder (d. 1959)
- 1894 - Jake Pitler, infielder (d. 1968)
- 1895 - Bob Smith, pitcher (d. 1987)
- 1898 - Tom Long, pitcher (d. 1973)
- 1900 - Paul Florence, catcher (d. 1986)
- 1901 - Taylor Douthit, outfielder (d. 1986)
- 1901 - Juanelo Mirabal, pitcher (d. 1989)
- 1902 - Ray Benge, pitcher (d. 1997)
- 1902 - Jim Mahady, infielder (d. 1936)
- 1903 - Ted Page, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1984)
- 1904 - Troy Dandridge, infielder (d. 1993)
- 1906 - Ewing Russell, infielder (d. 1978)
- 1907 - Tom Lanning, pitcher (d. 1967)
- 1908 - Fabian Kowalik, pitcher (d. 1954)
- 1910 - Lew Riggs, infielder; All-Star (d. 1975)
- 1910 - Slim Vaughan, pitcher (d. 1992)
- 1911 - Jake Daniel, infielder (d. 1995)
- 1911 - Frank Moseley, college coach (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Pete Center, pitcher (d. 2004)
- 1914 - Nate Moreland, pitcher (d. 1973)
- 1918 - Marshall Riddle, infielder; All-Star (d. 1988)
- 1918 - Mickey Vernon, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 2008)
- 1919 - Carl Lindner, owner (d. 2011)
- 1920 - Takeshi Hibino, NPB catcher (d. 1975)
- 1920 - Lloyd S. Johnson, USA national team player
- 1922 - Jim Russo, scout (d. 2004)
- 1923 - Betty Yahr, AAGPBL outfielder (d. 2010)
- 1925 - Ken Coleman, broadcaster (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Jim Duffus, minor league pitcher; author (d. 2014)
- 1929 - Stan Isaacs, writer (d. 2013)
- 1931 - Nick Mileti, owner (d. 2024)
- 1933 - Bob Schmidt, catcher; All-Star (d. 2015)
- 1935 - Lynn Boyer, minor league infielder (d. 2016)
- 1936 - Takeshi Koba, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 2021)
- 1938 - John Orsino, catcher (d. 2016)
- 1941 - Steve Jones, pitcher
- 1941 - Yoshihiko Kodama, NPB infielder
- 1947 - Alex Barrett, minor league infielder
- 1951 - Bobby Tucker, minor league outfielder (d. 2013)
- 1954 - Dan O'Brien, pitcher
- 1954 - Bill Paschall, pitcher
- 1955 - David Clyde, pitcher
- 1956 - Moose Haas, pitcher
- 1957 - Katsuyuki Fukumoto, Japanese national team outfielder
- 1957 - Dave Schmidt, pitcher
- 1958 - Stefan Wever, pitcher (d. 2022)
- 1959 - Terry Francona, infielder, manager
- 1961 - Jimmy Key, pitcher; All-Star
- 1964 - Mack Jenkins, coach
- 1964 - Javier Méndez, Cuban league outfielder and manager
- 1964 - Jack Savage, pitcher
- 1966 - Mickey Morandini, infielder; All-Star
- 1966 - DeJon Watson, scout
- 1968 - Mike Bell, infielder
- 1968 - Kevin Castleberry, minor league infielder
- 1968 - Bimbo Coles, minor league infielder
- 1968 - Lin-Lien Wu, CPBL outfielder
- 1969 - Paul Gonzalez, minor league infielder
- 1969 - George Williams, catcher
- 1970 - Joe Flores, minor league player
- 1970 - Vitally Romanov, Ukrainian national team catcher
- 1971 - Darin Everson, minor league infielder and manager
- 1972 - Daniel Choi, KBO pitcher
- 1973 - Matt Beaumont, minor league pitcher
- 1974 - Tomokazu Teramura, NPB pitcher
- 1978 - Dennis Abreu, minor league infielder
- 1978 - Carlos Urquiola, minor league infielder-outfielder
- 1979 - Chien-Fu Yang, CPBL pitcher
- 1980 - Carlos Hernandez, pitcher
- 1981 - William Juárez, minor league pitcher
- 1982 - Andrew Graham, minor league catcher and manager
- 1982 - David Purcey, pitcher
- 1982 - Anhar Rachman, Indonesian national team pitcher
- 1983 - Juan Camilo, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Eric Berger, minor league player
- 1986 - Andrew Garcia, minor league infielder
- 1986 - Hongrui Li, Chinese national team pitcher
- 1987 - Duane Feldtman, South African national team outfielder
- 1987 - Martin Laube, Extraliga outfielder
- 1987 - Tyson Ross, pitcher; All-Star
- 1987 - Jay Voss, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Dee Gordon, infielder; All-Star
- 1988 - Jessica Primera, Venezuelan women's national team pitcher
- 1989 - Sho Nakata, NPB outfielder
- 1990 - Kevin Kiermaier, outfielder
- 1990 - Colton Murray, pitcher
- 1990 - Joe Sclafani, minor league infielder
- 1991 - Tyler Higgins, NPB pitcher
- 1991 - Rick Teasley, minor league pitcher
- 1992 - David Bárta, Extraliga pitcher
- 1992 - Edwin Escobar, pitcher
- 1992 - Alex Monsalve, minor league catcher
- 1993 - Justin Kelly, minor league pitcher
- 1993 - Andres Machado, pitcher
- 1994 - Aristides Aquino, outfielder
- 1994 - Yuya Yanagi, NPB pitcher
- 1996 - Rylan Bannon, infielder
- 1996 - Bowden Francis, pitcher
- 1997 - Bryan Abreu, pitcher
- 1997 - Noah Davis, pitcher
- 1997 - Connor Perry, minor league outfielder
- 1997 - Cerilio Soleana, minor league pitcher
- 1999 - Luis Pacheco, minor league pitcher
- 1999 - Jackson Wolf, pitcher
- 2002 - Bryan Niño, minor league outfielder
- 2005 - Guillermo Rosario, minor league catcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1910 - Jack Brennan, umpire (b. 1853)
- 1931 - Bill Otey, pitcher (b. 1886)
- 1934 - Gus Creely, infielder (b. 1870)
- 1935 - Charlie Blackwell, outfielder (b. 1894)
- 1935 - George Ross, pitcher (b. 1892)
- 1940 - Alex Hardy, pitcher (b. 1876)
- 1943 - Kirby White, pitcher (b. 1884)
- 1950 - Dave Pickett, outfielder (b. 1874)
- 1951 - Ox Eckhardt, outfielder (b. 1901)
- 1957 - Joe Benz, pitcher (b. 1886)
- 1957 - Johnny Nee, scout (b. 1890)
- 1960 - Johnson Hill, infielder (b. 1890)
- 1964 - Herb Herring, pitcher (b. 1891)
- 1966 - Lou Finney, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1910)
- 1967 - Fritz Maisel, infielder (b. 1889)
- 1967 - Bill Salkeld, catcher (b. 1917)
- 1968 - Melvin Coleman, infielder/catcher (b. 1911)
- 1968 - Jack Jutzi, minor league player and manager (b. 1880)
- 1972 - Frank Drews, infielder (b. 1916)
- 1974 - Chance Cummings, infielder (b. 1892)
- 1974 - Steve Swetonic, pitcher (b. 1903)
- 1976 - Ernie Krueger, catcher (b. 1890)
- 1977 - Rube Yarrison, pitcher (b. 1896)
- 1982 - Lester Fuchs, umpire (b. 1912)
- 1983 - Mike Schemer, infielder (b. 1917)
- 1988 - Len Church, pitcher (b. 1942)
- 1993 - Mark Koenig, infielder (b. 1904)
- 1996 - Bob Brady, catcher (b. 1922)
- 2004 - Olmedo Suárez, minor league infielder (b. 1929)
- 2009 - Ron Cash, infielder (b. 1949)
- 2010 - Pete Castiglione, infielder (b. 1921)
- 2010 - Dick Kenworthy, infielder (b. 1941)
- 2014 - Ike Palmer, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1924)
- 2017 - James Agnew, minor league pitcher (b. ~1932)
- 2018 - Ken Hofmann, owner (b. 1923)
- 2020 - Rich Hacker, infielder (b. 1947)
- 2020 - Bart Johnson, pitcher (b. 1950)
- 2021 - Adrian Garrett, designated hitter (b. 1943)
- 2022 - Dick Weldon, college coach (b. 1929)
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