June 8
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on June 8.
Events[edit]
- 1894 - The St. Louis Browns are playing the Beaneaters in Boston, and the home team elects to bat first. In the bottom of the 1st, the lead-off batter, Tommy Dowd, walks. The next batter due up is Frank Shugart, but the number three hitter, Charlie Frank, comes up instead and strikes out. Shugart the hits into a fielder's choice with Dowd being put out. Boston now points out that Frank has batted out of order, and the umpire, Bob Emslie, incorrectly calls Frank out, ending the inning. The original 1876 rule, was poorly written and incomplete, but it did not allow for a batter to be out twice when batting out of order. More importantly, Frank was not the proper batter when he hit, so it was the proper batter then who should have been called out.
- 1909 - Clarence "Cack" Henley of the San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) throws the longest complete game shutout in professional baseball history. Henley throws 24 scoreless innings against the Oakland Oaks before finally winning, 1 - 0.
- 1920 - Edd Roush of the Cincinnati Reds falls asleep in center field during a long argument in the infield. Heinie Groh goes out to wake him, but the chief umpire ejects Roush for delaying the game.
- 1923 - Pat Collins of the St. Louis Browns appeared as a pinch-runner and again as a pinch-hitter later in the same game. Collins was allowed as a courtesy to briefly pinch-run for teammate Homer Ezzell in the 3rd inning when Ezzell needed to use the restroom. In the 9th, Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack allows the Browns to pinch-hit Collins for pitcher Ray Kolp, drawing a walk.
- 1933 - Jimmie Foxx hits three home runs in his first three at-bats as the Philadelphia Athletics outscore the New York Yankees, 14 - 10. Foxx had homered his last time up the previous day to give him four consecutive home runs.
- 1935 - Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds on a play at first base and leaves the game with arm and shoulder injuries. His consecutive games streak is preserved, in part, by a rainout of the next day's game and an open date.
- 1940 - Harry Craft of the Cincinnati Reds hits for the cycle, connecting for a home run, a triple, a double and two singles in seven at-bats, to lead a 27-hit attack as the Reds pound the host Brooklyn Dodgers, 23 - 2.
- 1944 - Red Barrett retires the first 22 batters he faces before his bid for a perfect game is broken up with an 8th-inning single by Del Ennis. The Cardinals right-hander gains his first victory of the season with his 7 - 0 whitewashing of Philadelphia at Sportsman's Park.
- 1945 - With the help of a security guard, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher ambushes a fan, John Christian, who is heckling him at Ebbets Field. The guard escorts the fan to the Dodgers' clubhouse, where Durocher punches him, allegedly using brass knuckles. The fan will file charges, leading to Durocher and the guard's arrest two days later. The two will be indicted on assault charges in September. The case will come to trial the following April and the all-male jury will take just 38 minutes to find the guard and Durocher not guilty. In a separate settlement of a civil suit before the trial‚ Durocher paid Christian $6‚750.
- 1950: The Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns, 29 - 4, at Fenway Park, and set major league records for runs scored; most long hits, 17 (9 doubles, 1 triple and 7 home runs); most total bases, 60; most extra bases on long hits, 32; most runs over two games, 49; most hits in two games, 51, including 28 this game.
- 1955 - The Los Angeles Dodgers option left-handed pitcher Tommy Lasorda to the Montreal Royals to make room on their roster for "bonus baby" Sandy Koufax, who had been on the disabled list.
- 1961:
- The Milwaukee Braves set a major-league record with four consecutive home runs in the 7th inning against Cincinnati. Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron hit back-to-back home runs off starter Jim Maloney; Joe Adcock greets reliever Marshall Bridges with another home run, and Frank Thomas sets the record. When these four teammates end their major-league careers, they will have hit a combined total of 1,889 homers. For all the bombardment, the Braves lose, 10 - 8.
- The Kansas City A's sign pitcher Lew Krausse to a $125,000 bonus, the largest in major league history* 1965 - Arizona State star sophomore Rick Monday, selected by the Kansas City Athletics, is the first player chosen in the initial major league free-agent draft of high school, college, and sandlot players. Picking second, the Mets take pitcher Les Rohr. In the 10th round, they finally take Nolan Ryan. Cincinnati picks Johnny Bench in the second round.
- 1964 - The A's ink Jim Hunter for $75,000 after other teams backed off in their pursuit of the outstanding North Carolina high schooler when his little toe was blown off in a hunting accident a few months earlier.
- 1968:
- Howie Bedell's sacrifice fly in the 5th inning ends Don Drysdale's record streak of 58 consecutive scoreless innings. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 5 - 3.
- Bat Day at Candlestick Park is postponed when the Mets refuse to play their scheduled game in San Francisco, CA, out of respect for recently assassinated New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, whose funeral is being held today. Prompted by baseball commissioner William Eckert's edict to cancel games only taking place in New York, NY and Washington, DC, the team, led by first baseman Ed Kranepool, votes to take this action, even under the threat of forfeiting the contest, a decision that is fully supported by manager Gil Hodges and the organization.
- 1969 - The New York Yankees' uniform number 7 is retired on Mickey Mantle Day. A crowd of 60,096 comes to Yankee Stadium to honor Mantle and watches New York sweep the Chicago White Sox, 3 - 1 and 11 - 2.
- 1971:
- At Municipal Stadium, Paul Splittorff earns his first major league victory when Kansas City defeats the visiting Senators, 4 - 2. In 1969, the 23-year-old left-hander became the first player signed by the Royals to appear on the expansion team's major-league roster.
- Danny Goodwin is chosen as the first player in the June draft but will turn down a reported $50‚000 offer from the White Sox to attend Southern University. He will be picked first overall again in 1975.
- 1976 - With the first overall pick in the draft, Houston chooses lefthanded pitcher Floyd Bannister of Arizona State University. Rushed to the majors the next year, Bannister will go 11-18 in two seasons with the Astros. Other prominent players drafted today include the Red Sox taking Dixie High School (St. George, UT) standout southpaw Bruce Hurst with the twenty-second pick. Of the dozen hurlers selected in the first round, the southpaw from Utah will retire with the most career victories (145).
- 1977 - Nolan Ryan notches his fourth career 19-strikeout game, pitching the first ten innings of a game against Toronto.
- 1978 - Bob Horner, the College Player of the Year, is selected first in the amateur draft by the Atlanta Braves. He will go straight to the major leagues, the first number one overall pick to do so. Horner will be joined in skipping the minors by high school pitcher Mike Morgan, taken with the fourth pick by the Athletics.
- 1981 - Seattle takes Mike Moore with the first pick overall in the annual amateur draft. The Cubs take Joe Carter with the second pick while the Angels take Dick Schofield third.
- 1982:
- Hall of Famer Satchel Paige passes away at the reported age of 76.
- Sid Fernandez pitches his second no-hitter of the season for Vero Beach of the Florida State League.
- 1986 - In the longest nine-inning game by time in American League history, Baltimore beats the Yankees, 18 - 9. The game features nine pitchers, 36 hits, and 16 walks, and takes 4:16 to complete.
- 1989 - The Pittsburgh Pirates send 16 batters to the plate in the 1st inning against the Philadelphia Phillies, taking a 10 - 0 lead in Pittsburgh's best inning since September 1942 on ten hits, including a three-run home run by Barry Bonds. Pittsburgh leaves the bases loaded. Announcer Jim Rooker crows that if the Pirates lose this game, he'll walk back to Pittsburgh. Von Hayes and Steve Jeltz answer Rooker with a pair of home runs each and ten RBI. After six innings the game is 11 - 10. The Phillies explode for five runs in the 8th to make the final, 15 - 11. Rooker will make good on his promise after the season, when he conducts a charity walk from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, raising money for a children's hospital.
- 1990 - Glenn Wilson's three-run pinch-hit homer in the 10th inning off Randy Myers stuns the Reds, 3 - 1, at the Astrodome. Mike Scott and Tom Browning trade nine shutout innings before the Reds break the tie with a single by Todd Benzinger, only their third hit of the night off Scott, who fans fifteen. Myers comes in to close only to see Wilson launch the game-winner for Houston.
- 1993 - After serving as Milwaukee's mascot from 1973 to 1984, Bernie Brewer comes out of retirement after an eight-year absence. The mustachioed costumed character, once renown for sliding into a mug of beer after hometown homers, is brought back by popular demand when the fans vote for his reinstatement by an overwhelming 21,751 to 1,389 margin.
- 1996 - Warren Morris hits a two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the 9th inning to give Louisiana State a 9 - 8 victory over Miami in the championship game of the College World Series.
- 2001:
- For the first time in major league history, two Texan teams play one another during the regular season. The Astros beat their interstate rivals, the Rangers, 5 - 4, in the first game of the Lone Star series played in Arlington Stadium.
- In front of a record-setting crowd of 45,936 at the new Comiskey Park, the White Sox beat their North Side rivals in ten innings as Carlos Lee hits a two-out walk-off grand slam to give the Sox a dramatic victory over the Cubs, 7 - 3.
- Damion Easley becomes the ninth Detroit Tigers player to hit for the cycle, and the first since 1993 when Travis Fryman accomplished the feat. Detroit beats Milwaukee, 9 - 4.
- 2005 - New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest member of the 400-home run club when he hits a solo homer in the 8th inning of New York's 12 - 3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.
- 2008 - Rich Harden begins the game by striking out the side on nine pitches in the A's 7 - 3 victory over the Angels at Oakland's McAfee Coliseum. Maicer Izturis, Howie Kendrick and Garret Anderson all go down swinging in the 33-year-old right-hander's immaculate inning.
- 2010:
- Pitcher Stephen Strasburg makes the most eagerly anticipated debut in decades before a sell-out crowd in Washington, DC. The recipient of the largest signing bonus in history lives up to his advance billing, striking out 14 while walking none in seven innings; the only batter to reach him is Delwyn Young, who connects for a two-run homer. The Nationals defeat Pittsburgh, 4 - 2, for Strasburg's first major league win.
- Another ballyhooed rookie makes his debut today - Florida outfielder Mike Stanton is 3 for 5 with two runs scored as the Marlins lose to the Phillies, 10 - 8. Stanton earned the call-up by belting 21 homers and driving in 52 runs in as many games for AA Jacksonville.
- Jeff Niemann pitches a two-hit complete game shutout against the Blue Jays. Tampa Bay wins, 9 - 0, as Carlos Pena leads the attack with two homers, including a grand slam.
- Old Man River, otherwise known as Tim Wakefield, rolls along to another milestone, passing Roger Clemens for most innings pitched in Boston Red Sox team history with 2,777. He gives up only four hits in 7 1/3 innings in beating Cleveland, 3 - 2, retiring 15 consecutive batters at one point.
- 2011:
- The Red Sox take over first place in the AL East by dropping the Yankees, 11 - 6, at New Yankee Stadium. Tim Wakefield continues to do well in filling for injured members of the starting rotation, picking up his third win after being staked an early 7 - 0 lead. David Ortiz, Carl Crawford and J.D. Drew all homer as A.J. Burnett takes the loss. But not all is rosy for Boston: 2B Dustin Pedroia heads home after the game to have his ailing right knee examined, but the problem turns out to be only a bone bruise. The Yanks are not so lucky as they place P Joba Chamberlain on the disabled list before the game with what turns out to be a torn ligament in his pitching elbow, requiring season-ending Tommy John surgery; Boston P Bobby Jenks also goes on the D.L., but his outlook is not as dire as Joba's.
- Two hitting coaches lose their jobs today. The Rangers replace Thad Bosley with Scott Coolbaugh before their game with Detroit, while the Marlins fire John Mallee following a 3 - 2, ten-inning loss to Atlanta, replacing him with Eduardo Perez.
- 2012 - Six pitchers combine for a no-hitter as the Seattle Mariners down the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1 - 0. Kevin Millwood goes the first six innings before leaving with a groin injury. He is followed by Charlie Furbush, Stephen Pryor, Lucas Luetge, Brandon League, and Tom Wilhelmsen. Pryor gets the win in only his fourth major league appearance and Wilhelmsen the save. The only run scores in the top of the 7th, when Kyle Seager drives in Ichiro Suzuki with a two-out single.
- 2013:
- For only the second time in major league history, two games go 18 innings on the same day. First, the Blue Jays defeat the Rangers, 4 - 3, when Rajai Davis drives in Emilio Bonifacio with a two-out single in the 18th inning. Ross Wolf is the unlucky loser after 6 2/3 innings of work. It's the longest game in both teams' history, but it's not even the longest on the day, as the Marlins need 20 innings to defeat the Mets, 2 - 1, tying for the longest game in their history, and the longest played at Citi Field. Adeiny Hechevarria drives in the go-ahead run and Steve Cishek gets the final out after 6 hours and 20 minutes. The game almost ends in the 12th, but Marlins RF Marcell Ozuna throws out Daniel Murphy at the plate to prolong the game. Starters Shaun Marcum and Kevin Slowey then come in to pitch in the 13th, and both hurl scoreless ball until the 20th. Marcum falls to 0-7 in spite of his tremendous effort.
- On the day when his son Josh is picked by the Yankees in the 37th round of the amateur draft, Andy Pettitte wins the 250th game of his career over the Mariners, 3 - 1.
- Also in the 2013 draft, Federico Castagnini is picked by the Baltimore Orioles in the 30th round. Castagnini, a Creighton University infielder, becomes the first player to be drafted who was born and raised in Italy, though he came to the United States to play high school and college ball. Castagnini had been MVP of the 2009 European Junior Championship, which Italy won.
- The Solingen Alligators pound the Berlin Sluggers, 21 - 0, in a seven-inning game. Nick Renault, a long-time independent league hurler in the US, tosses a perfect game and fans 13 of the 21 batters he faces.
- 2014 - The Astros hit their first two grand slams of the season, courtesy of Chris Carter and Jon Singleton, in defeating the Twins, 14 - 5. Dexter Fowler and George Springer add solo shots as it is only the second time Houston has ever hit two slams in one game, the other coming in 1969. Darin Downs is the beneficiary of the outburst, picking up his first win of the year after starter Collin McHugh has to leave early because of a blister.
- 2015 - Shortstops are the flavor of the day in the 2015 amateur draft, as players who man the position are taken in the first three slots, and eight are selected within the first 36 picks. The number 1 overall pick is Dansby Swanson of Vanderbilt University, taken by the Diamondbacks. He is followed by Alex Bregman of LSU, by Houston, and Brendan Rodgers, the first high schooler selected, by the Rockies. The Astros are the first team to have two of the top five picks in a draft, the result of failing come to terms with number one pick Brady Aiken last year; they take OF Kyle Tucker, the brother of their own Preston Tucker, fifth overall, while Aiken is selected again, this time with pick #17, by the Indians. Two other Vanderbilt players are taken in the first round, P Carson Fulmer by the White Sox at #8 and P Walker Buehler by the Dodgers at #24.
- 2017 - At the 2017 European Champions Cup, Matteo Bocchi of Unipol Bologna throws a no-hitter (seven innings due to a mercy rule win) over the French champion Rouen Huskies. Bocchi walks only one, Larry Infante, in the gem, while Francesco Fuzzi lends strong offensive support with five RBI.
- 2019:
- In the 2019 CWS Super Regionals played in Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University freshman pitcher Kumar Rocker strikes out 19 Duke University batters while pitching a no-hitter in a 3 - 0 win, putting on one of the most dominant pitching performances ever seen at that level of competition.
- UnipolSai Bologna wins the 2019 European Champions Cup. The hosts avenge their lone loss, beating the L&D Amsterdam Pirates, 8 - 0, in the finale as Raúl Rivero and Alex Bassani strike out 16 while allowing only five hits and a walk and Bologna roughs up Kevin Heijstek, who had beaten them previously. Jose Ferrini scores two for Bologna while John Polonius and Francesco Fuzzi drive in two each. Bologna backstop Osman Marval wins the Cup MVP. The defending champion Curacao Neptunus cruises to third by routing Parmaclima, 9 - 0, on a combined four-hitter by Orlando Yntema and Misja Harcksen. Stijn van der Meer goes 3 for 4 with three RBI for Neptunus.
- 2020 - MLB owners present their counter-proposal to get the season started. They propose playing 76 games, with a postseason involving 16 teams, drop the proposed sliding scale for reducing salaries - although they still seek further cuts -, and also propose dropping all forms of compensation for signing free agents. The ball is now back in the MLBPA's court.
- 2021 - Pirates rookie 3B Ke'Bryan Hayes, swinging a red hot bat after coming back from a two-month stay on the injured list, makes a very embarrassing mistake when he has a home run taken away for missing first base. His apparent solo shot off Walker Buehler is nullified when the Dodgers successfully appeal that he did not touch the bag while rounding the bases.
- 2023 - José Ramírez has the first three-homer game of his career, with the second of the three long balls being his 200th, as he leads Cleveland to a 10 - 3 win over the Red Sox.
- 2024:
- In the first game of the annual "London Series" played at London Olympic Stadium, the Phillies defeat the Mets, 7 - 2, behind the pitching of Ranger Suárez, who becomes the first to record ten wins in the majors this season. The Phils do it with the long ball, with homers by Bryce Harper - who celebrates with a local flavor by sliding on his knees and screaming "I love soccer" - Whit Merrifield and Nick Castellanos.
- The Blue Jays finally end an embarrassing streak in which they had failed to score in the 1st inning in 29 consecutive games - the second longest such streak in major league history - when three walks and a sacrifice fly lead to a run against Luis Medina of the Athletics. They add another five runs in the 5th, but the story of the day is Kevin Gausman, who records the first shutout of his 12-season career in the 7 - 0 win. His only previous complete game had been a rain-shortened five-inning affair back in 2014.
Births[edit]
- 1861 - Ben Tuthill, umpire (d. 1937)
- 1862 - Tom Lee, pitcher (d. 1886)
- 1870 - Tim Donahue, catcher (d. 1902)
- 1871 - Julius Fleischmann, owner (d. 1925)
- 1877 - Tex Neuer, pitcher (d. 1966)
- 1887 - Del Paddock, infielder (d. 1952)
- 1891 - Buck Danner, infielder (d. 1949)
- 1892 - Chance Cummings, infielder (d. 1974)
- 1895 - Bill Drake, pitcher (b. 1977)
- 1895 - Sam McConnell, infielder (d. 1981)
- 1899 - Jack Crangle, college coach (d. 1944)
- 1899 - Lou Maguolo, scout (d. 1977)
- 1901 - Leo Tankersley, catcher (d. 1980)
- 1911 - Van Mungo, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1985)
- 1911 - Roy Partlow, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1987)
- 1912 - Lew Krausse, pitcher (d. 1988)
- 1913 - Art Mahan, infielder (d. 2010)
- 1913 - Earl Reid, pitcher (d. 1984)
- 1914 - Tom Johnson, owner (d. 2000)
- 1919 - Damon Phillips, infielder (d. 2004)
- 1919 - Charley Schanz, pitcher (d. 1992)
- 1922 - Salvador Taormina, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1979)
- 1923 - Hal Kleine, pitcher (d. 1957)
- 1925 - Del Ennis, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1996)
- 1925 - Eddie Gaedel, pinch hitter (d. 1961)
- 1927 - José Pereira, pitcher (d. 2001)
- 1928 - Webbo Clarke, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1970)
- 1928 - Alex Konikowski, pitcher (d. 1997)
- 1929 - Fausto Camusi, Serie A1 infielder and manager (d. 1993)
- 1929 - Jerry Dahlke, pitcher (d. 2006)
- 1929 - Lionel Evelyn, Negro League pitcher (d. 2022)
- 1930 - Phil Paine, pitcher (d. 1978)
- 1931 - Herb Tassin, minor league player (d. 2014)
- 1934 - Bill Smith, pitcher (d. 1997)
- 1935 - George Brunet, pitcher (d. 1991)
- 1937 - Joe Grzenda, pitcher (d. 2019)
- 1942 - Larry Colton, pitcher
- 1942 - Pete Magrini, pitcher (d. 2022)
- 1944 - Mark Belanger, infielder; All-Star (d. 1998)
- 1944 - Nobuji Oikawa, NPB pitcher
- 1946 - Jack Lind, infielder
- 1948 - Akio Takahashi, Japanese national team coach (d. 2022)
- 1952 - Toru Sugiura, NPB outfielder
- 1953 - Jack Kucek, pitcher
- 1954 - Lenn Sakata, infielder
- 1957 - Don Robinson, pitcher
- 1958 - Carmen Castillo, outfielder (d. 2015)
- 1959 - Britt Burns, pitcher; All-Star
- 1959 - Chu-Ming Lee, CPBL outfielder and manager
- 1961 - Kevin Gross, pitcher; All-Star
- 1962 - Brian Gibbons, umpire
- 1962 - John Gibbons, catcher, manager
- 1962 - Sébastien Valazza, Division Elite infielder
- 1963 - Scott Ruskin, pitcher
- 1964 - Cesar Jimenez, minor league pitcher
- 1965 - Mike Anderson, college coach
- 1965 - Kevin Ritz, pitcher
- 1965 - Hiroshi Yagi, NPB infielder
- 1967 - Steve Chitren, pitcher
- 1968 - Dave Mlicki, pitcher
- 1969 - Peter Estrada, minor league pitcher
- 1970 - Kiki Jones, minor league pitcher
- 1971 - Matt Whisenant, pitcher
- 1973 - Hidetaka Kawagoe, NPB pitcher
- 1974 - Koichi Misawa, NPB pitcher
- 1975 - Matt Perisho, pitcher
- 1975 - Dennis Twombley, scout
- 1976 - Kenji Johjima, catcher
- 1976 - Ryutaro Tsuji, NPB outfielder
- 1978 - Takashi Miyoshi, minor league infielder and manager
- 1979 - Pete Orr, infielder
- 1979 - Chris Stowe, minor league pitcher
- 1981 - Kevin Mahar, outfielder
- 1981 - Adam Morrissey, minor league infielder
- 1982 - J.P. Martinez, coach
- 1982 - Brandon Young, drafted outfielder (d. 2014)
- 1984 - Shinya Yamamoto, Japanese national team infielder
- 1985 - Aaron Wideman, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Derek Bondo, First Division pitcher
- 1986 - Keyter Collado, minor league catcher and manager
- 1986 - Angel Salome, catcher
- 1987 - Eui-ji Yang, KBO catcher
- 1988 - Lance Roenicke, minor league outfielder
- 1989 - T.J. McFarland, pitcher
- 1989 - Gerardo Sanchez, minor league pitcher
- 1990 - Taishi Nakagawa, NPB infielder
- 1991 - R.J. Alvarez, pitcher
- 1991 - Terrance Gore, outfielder
- 1991 - Kris Hall, minor league pitcher
- 1992 - Jill Barrett, US women's national team infielder
- 1992 - Fernando Gonzalez, minor league pitcher
- 1993 - Ferdinand Liguayan, Philippines national team outfielder
- 1993 - Ryan Sebra, minor league player
- 1993 - Kregg Snook, college coach
- 1993 - Kender Villegas, minor league pitcher
- 1994 - Jung-bin Kim, KBO pitcher
- 1994 - Chihaya Sasaki, NPB pitcher
- 1995 - Chad Smith, pitcher
- 1996 - Chi-Kit Kwong, Hong Kong national team pitcher
- 1998 - Alex Hall, minor league catcher
- 1998 - Jake Polancic, minor league pitcher
- 1999 - Masashi Maruyama, Japanese national team infielder
- 2000 - Cheng-Yu Chang, CPBL infielder
- 2000 - Hernando Mejía, minor league pitcher
- 2000 - Connor Norby, infielder
- 2001 - Victor Mederos, pitcher
- 2002 - Brayan Buelvas, minor league outfielder
Deaths[edit]
- 1893 - Bill Collins, catcher (b. 1863)
- 1930 - Robert Poindexter, pitcher (b. 1897)
- 1931 - Ed Ford, infielder (b. 1862)
- 1935 - Jay Parker, pitcher (b. 1874)
- 1939 - Pat Paige, pitcher (b. 1882)
- 1945 - Bill Kemmer, infielder (b. 1873)
- 1950 - Cannonball Titcomb, pitcher (b. 1866)
- 1954 - Tom O'Hara, outfielder (b. 1880)
- 1963 - Earl Smith, catcher (b. 1897)
- 1965 - Pep Clark, infielder (b. 1883)
- 1966 - Jake Munch, outfielder (b. 1890)
- 1967 - Art Jacobs, pitcher (b. 1902)
- 1968 - Dusty Boggess, umpire (b. 1904)
- 1971 - William Prince, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1909)
- 1971 - Ed Rile, pitcher/outfielder (b. 1900)
- 1974 - Fred Wiley, pitcher (b. 1895)
- 1975 - Ownie Carroll, pitcher (b. 1902)
- 1982 - Irv Jeffries, infielder (b. 1905)
- 1982 - Satchel Paige, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1906)
- 1988 - Walt Chipple, outfielder (b. 1918)
- 1989 - Bibb Falk, outfielder, manager (b. 1899)
- 1989 - Emil Verban, infielder; All-Star (b. 1915)
- 1990 - Rafael Cabrera, outfielder (b. 1924)
- 1990 - Neb Stewart, outfielder (b. 1918)
- 1993 - Roy Henshaw, pitcher (b. 1911)
- 1993 - Rudy Laskowski, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1915)
- 1996 - C. Arnholt Smith, owner (b. 1899)
- 1997 - Yasuya Hondo, NPB player and manager (b. 1918)
- 1997 - Ken Hunt, outfielder (b. 1934)
- 2001 - Katsuji Kojima, NPB outfielder (b. 1923)
- 2004 - Mack Jones, outfielder (b. 1938)
- 2008 - Mick Sharkey, umpire (b. 1949)
- 2009 - Clarence Russell, minor league outfielder (b. 1925)
- 2009 - Frank Dasso, pitcher (b. 1917)
- 2011 - Jim Northrup, outfielder (b. 1939)
- 2012 - Jimmy Francoline, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1927)
- 2013 - Howard Boles, minor league outfielder (b. 1927)
- 2013 - Jim Higgins, minor league infielder (b. 1928)
- 2013 - Cliff Shanks, minor league infielder (b. 1971)
- 2013 - Jose Sosa, pitcher (b. 1952)
- 2014 - Jean Geissinger, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1934)
- 2014 - Billy McCool, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1944)
- 2016 - Bill Marchant, college coach (b. 1947)
- 2019 - Frank Lucchesi, manager (b. 1927)
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