May 13
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on May 13.
Events[edit]
- 1903 - Paris Parasites left fielder Clyde Bateman becomes the second player in Texas League history to hit four home runs in a game.
- 1911:
- Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers hits his first grand slam. After six innings, Detroit leads the Boston Red Sox, 10 - 1. Boston comes back to win the game, 13 - 11, in ten innings.
- The New York Giants score a major league record ten runs before the St. Louis Cardinals retire the first batter in the 1st inning. Fred Merkle drives in six of the Giants' 13 runs in the 1st en route to a 19 - 5 victory. When Giants manager John McGraw decides to save starting pitcher Christy Mathewson for another day, Rube Marquard enters the game in the 2nd inning and sets a record for relievers (since broken) with 14 strikeouts in his eight-inning appearance.
- 1923 - Joe Sewell of the Cleveland Indians strikes out twice in one game for the first time in his career. Washington Senators rookie Cy Warmoth is the pitcher. In a 14-year career, Sewell will have only one other multiple strikeout game.
- 1929 - At Cleveland's League Park, the Indians defeat the Yankees, 4 - 3, in the first game in major league history in which players from both teams wear numbers on the back of their jerseys.
- 1942 - Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves almost single-handedly beats the Chicago Cubs at Braves Field, 6 - 5, by pitching a five-hitter and hitting three consecutive home runs. Tobin, who hit a pinch homer the day before, becomes the only pitcher in modern history to collect three home runs in a game. His fourth at-bat results in a fly ball caught against the fence in left field.
- 1947 - A barrage of racial slurs is directed at Jackie Robinson by the Cincinnati fans at Crosley Field. Brooklyn shortstop Pee Wee Reese, a Southerner from Kentucky, puts his arm around his teammate’s shoulder in supoort.
- 1952:
- In an Appalachian League game, Ron Necciai of the Bristol Twins strikes out 27 batters while pitching a 7 - 0 no-hitter against the Welch Miners. Four of the Welch hitters reach base on a walk, an error, a hit by pitch and a passed ball charged to Twins' catcher Harry Dunlop on a swinging third strike. But 27 strikeouts are recorded on the night, including four in the 9th inning, as a result of Dunlop's miscue; one batter is retired on a grounder in the 2nd inning.
- Larry Miggins hits the first of his two major league home runs, going deep off Preacher Roe in the 4th inning of the Cardinals' 14 - 8 loss to the Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The round-tripper hit by the Bronx-born outfielder, who had once shared his dream of playing in the big leagues during a prep school assembly with a buddy with aspirations to be a baseball broadcaster, is called by an overwhelmed Vin Scully, Brooklyn’s play-by-play announcer who had wondered that day with his friend "what the odds against that would be."
- 1955 - At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate for the first time in his major league career. The New York Yankees slugger finishes the game with three home runs - two left-handed and one right-handed - and drives in all of his team's runs in a 5 - 2 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Whitey Ford is the winning pitcher and Steve Gromek the loser.
- 1958:
- Teammates Willie Mays and Daryl Spencer each have four extra-base hits as San Francisco beats the Dodgers in Los Angeles, 16 - 9. Mays hits two home runs, two triples, a single and drives in four runs, and Spencer has two home runs, a triple, a double and six RBI for a combined 28 total bases. The Ginats set a record with a total of 50 total bases in the game.
- Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals collects his 3,000th career hit with a pinch double off Chicago Cubs pitcher Moe Drabowsky at Wrigley Field. The Cardinals win, 5 - 3.
- 1965 - Los Angeles Angels pitcher Dick Wantz dies following surgery for brain cancer. The 25-year-old Wantz had made his debut only one month earlier, pitching one inning in relief in his only major league appearance.
- 1966 - Dick Farrell and Claude Raymond combine for a one-hitter in Philadelphia. The Astros only manage three hits themselves but the last is a 9th-inning blast by Jim Wynn off Chris Short that hits the roof of Connie Mack Stadium for a 1 -0 victory.
- 1969 - Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs reaches the 1,500 runs batted in milestone with seven RBI in a 19 - 0 shellacking of the expansion San Diego Padres. Hard-throwing right-hander Dick Selma earns the win as the Cubs tie a modern-day record for the most one-sided shutout in National League history.
- 1972 - Buzz Capra is the winning pitcher in a 1 - 0 Mets victory over the San Francisco Giants. Capra's first major league RBI - a 2nd-inning single scoring Cleon Jones - is the only run of the game.
- 1976 - For the sixth consecutive game, George Brett of the Kansas City Royals collects at least three hits.
- 1980:
- Ray Knight of the Cincinnati Reds hits two home runs in the 5th inning - including a grand slam - to lead the Reds to a 15 - 4 rout of the New York Mets.
- Fred Lynn becomes 13th Red Sox player to hit for the cycle in a 10 - 5 win over the Twins.
- 1981 - Don Sutton twirls a five-hit shutout to blank St. Louis, 3 - 0. It is the 53rd whitewash of the Astros hurler's career.
- 1982 - The Chicago Cubs win game No. 8,000 in their history with a 5 - 0 shutout of Houston at the Astrodome. Allen Ripley and Lee Smith combine on the blanking.
- 1985 - After trailing by eight runs going into the bottom of the 6th inning, the Yankees rally to beat the Twins, 9 - 8. Don Mattingly's 9th inning two-out, three-run walk-off home run in Yankee Stadium is the finishing touch.
- 1988 - Glenn Davis drives in four and Gerald Young provides four hits as Houston pounds the Cubs, 8 - 2. Nolan Ryan tosses his first complete game in over two years, fanning eleven. Davis leads the league in RBIs (33) while Young leads in stolen bases (22).
- 1989 - Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins ties a major league record with four doubles against the Toronto Blue Jays. He becomes the 35th player to hit four doubles in a game, the first since Toronto's Damaso Garcia in 1986.
- 1993 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hits his 300th career home run in the 6th inning of a 7 - 3 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Brett is only the sixth major league player with at least 3,000 hits and 300 home runs.
- 1994 - Tim Salmon of the California Angels ties an American League record with his 13th consecutive hit.
- 1995 - As of today, Tony Gwynn has hit .402 in his last 162-game stretch.
- 1998 - The Atlanta Braves set a National League record and tie a major league mark by hitting home runs in 25 straight games, doing it when Ryan Klesko hits a two-run shot in the 6th inning against St. Louis.
- 1999 - The Mexico City Tigers crack three grand slams in a 16 - 5 rout. Luis Garcia hits two of them and Julio Franco adds one.
- 2000 - Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Todd Stottlemyre earns his seventh victory of the season as the Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres, 6 - 2. It is also Stottlemyre's 136th career win. He and father Mel Stottlemyre become the first father-son combination to record 300 wins.
- 2001 - Alex Rodriguez becomes the fifth-youngest big leaguer to hit his 200th career home run, at 25 years and 289 days. Mel Ott accomplished the feat in 1934 at the youngest age (25 years, 144 days).
- 2002 - 38 home runs shy of the exclusive 500 home run club, Jose Canseco retires at 37 age due to injuries sustained in recent years. The former American League MVP, who was cut by the Expos during spring training, had his best years in Oakland, forming with Mark McGwire one of the most feared one-two punches of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
- 2007 - In the comeback which will become known as the "Mother's Day Miracle", the Red Sox rally for six runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to beat Baltimore at Fenway Park, 6 - 5. Prior to the final frame, Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie had blanked his opponents on three hits before Boston crosses the plate six times, thanks to two singles, two doubles, three walks, and two errors.
- 2009:
- Ryan Zimmerman's hitting streak ends at 30 games when he goes 0 for 3 with two walks, but Washington beats San Francisco, 6 - 3, behind the pitching of Shairon Martis. Zimmerman falls one game short of the franchise record of 31 games set by Vladimir Guerrero in 1999, when the Nationals were still the Montreal Expos.
- Alfonso Soriano hits his 53rd leadoff homer as the Chicago Cubs defeat the Padres, 6 - 4, in a rain-shortened game. Soriano's blast ties Craig Biggio for second on the all-time list, still well behind record holder Rickey Henderson at 81; it also breaks the Cubs record held by Jimmy Ryan, as it is Soriano's 21st such homer since joining the team in 2006. For the Padres, Adrian Gonzalez hits two long balls off winner Ted Lilly.
- The Pirates down the Cardinals, 5 - 2. Adam LaRoche has a home run reversed on an instant replay review; it marks the first time in 14 reviews that a home run call has been reversed since instant replay was instituted in 2008.
- The Reds beat the Diamondbacks, 10 - 3. Arizona rookie Gerardo Parra homers off Johnny Cueto in his first major league at-bat, the 100th player to homer in his first trip up in the Show.
- 2010:
- Mat Latos comes extremely close to pitching a no-hitter, but has to settle for a one-hit shutout, the first complete game of his career, as San Diego beats the Giants, 1 - 0. The only hit he allows is a ground ball by Eli Whiteside in the 6th that glances off him towards third baseman Chase Headley, whose throw to first base is a fraction of a second too late to retire Whiteside. For good measure, Latos also drives in the only run of the game.
- Zack Greinke finally earns his first win of the year, but it comes too late to save Trey Hillman's job. The Royals announce after the 6 - 4 win over the Indians that their manager has been fired and will be replaced by former Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost. The Royals are 12-23 and in a familiar last place in the AL Central.
- 2011:
- Justin Verlander does his best Johnny Vander Meer imitation but comes up short in his first start since pitching the second no-hitter of his career on May 8th. The Tigers ace is still masterful, though, keeping the Royals hitless until Melky Cabrera's two-out triple in the 6th. He ends up allowing two hits in eight innings in a 3 - 1 win. His losing opponent in last week's no-hitter, Toronto's Ricky Romero, also has a low-hit game, giving up the first of his four hits with two outs in the 6th. He comes up one out short of a complete game shutout, leaving Frank Francisco to get the final out of a 2 - 0 victory over the Twins.
- Jeremy Hellickson also shines on a night of great pitching performances. The Rays rookie pitches a four-hitter for the first complete game and shutout of his career in Tampa Bay's 3 - 0 win over the Orioles, on his way to winning the Rookie of the Year Award. Matt Joyce and Johnny Damon hit homers that account for all of the Rays' runs.
- Coco Crisp gambles and loses: in the 8th inning, with the A's trailing the White Sox, 4 - 3, he attempts a straight steal of home with left-handed reliever Matt Thornton on the mound, but C A.J. Pierzynski manages to tag him out as he slides. The Sox hold on for the win.
- 2012:
- The Mariners beat the Yankees, 6 - 2, in Andy Pettitte's return to pinstripes after a one-year retirement. Justin Smoak and Casper Wells hit homers against Pettitte; Kevin Millwood picks up his first win for the M's. Wells is a dutiful son on Mother's Day, hitting his long ball after his mom, who drove all the way from Schenectady, NY to the Big Apple to attend the game, asked him to hit a home run to make it memorable.
- Another Mother's Day hero is the Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton, swinging a pink bat in support of breast cancer research, who belts a walk-off grand slam off Manny Acosta of the Mets, capping a six-run 9th-inning rally as Miami wins, 8 - 4. And he is not the only player to accomplish the feat, as the Reds' Joey Votto also ends his team's game with a slam, completing a three-homer game as Cincinnati defeats the Nationals, 9 - 6. It the first time that two games end on a grand slam on the same day since April 10, 1988, when Mo Vaughn and Steve Finley were the hitters.
- 2013:
- Jordan Zimmermann is the first major league pitcher to seven wins as he also drives in three runs in Washington's 6 - 2 victory over the Dodgers. His opponent, Josh Beckett, falls to 0-5. For Washington, Bryce Harper runs at full speed into the outfield fence in the 5th inning as he attempts to catch a fly ball hit by A.J. Ellis; he has to leave the game and while he will return to action quickly, the nagging injuries resulting from the collision will affect his production significantly for the rest of the season.
- In his return to Arizona after his off-season trade, Justin Upton has a huge night, banging out four hits including a homer in a 10 - 1 Braves win over the Diamondbacks.
- 2014 - Two pitchers with long winless streaks face off in tonight's game between the Dodgers and Marlins. Josh Beckett records his first win since the 2012 season as he gives up a run in 6 2/3 innings in a 7 - 1 Dodgers win. His opponent, Jacob Turner, extends his streak to 16 starts and is 0-10 on the road for his career, in spite of an ERA under 4.00.
- 2015:
- Last year's AL Cy Young Award winner, Corey Kluber of the Indians, finally gets his first win of the year after starting off 0-5. He strikes out 18 Cardinals batters and allows only one hit over eight innings to lead Cleveland to a 2 - 0 win. The 18 strikeouts tie a club record set by Bob Feller in 1938 and are the most by any American League pitcher since Roger Clemens also struck out 18 in 1998.
- Jonathan Singleton of the Fresno Grizzlies drives in ten runs in a 17 - 6 beating of the Albuquerque Isotopes in the Pacific Coast League. He goes 4 for 6 with two homers, including a grand slam, in setting a new club record for RBIs.
- 2016 - Major League Baseball announces its decision in the case of SS Jose Reyes, who has been on administrative leave since spring training following an off-season domestic violence incident. While prosecutors decided to drop criminal charges, MLB comes down hard, extending Reyes' suspension until May 31st, a total of 51 games, costing Reyes $7 million in salary.
- 2017 - Bryce Harper signs a contract extension that will pay him $21.6 million in 2018, his final year before he becomes eligible for free agency, an amount which is a record for a player in his arbitration years. He then celebrates by hitting a walk-off homer off Edubray Ramos with two outs in the 9th to lead Washington to a 6 - 4 win over the Phillies.
- 2018 - Called up from AAA earlier in the day, Joey Rickard has a great game for the Orioles against the Rays as he homers twice and drives in four runs in a 17 - 1 rout. Danny Valencia and Trey Mancini also homer for the last-place Birds and Dylan Bundy pitches seven scoreless innings in his first start since allowing seven runs and four homers without retiring anyone in a start against the Royals on May 8th.
- 2021 - Back from a short stint on the injured list, Milwaukee's Corbin Burnes picks up right where he left off as he racks up nine strikeouts before issuing his first walk of the season, to the Cardinals' Tommy Edman in the 5th inning. With this, he sets a couple of records, as he reaches 58 strikeouts before issuing his first free pass. The previous record from the start of a season was 51, by Kenley Jansen in 2017, while the record for most consecutive strikeouts without a walk at any point was 56, set by Curt Schilling in 2002 and tied by Gerrit Cole of the Yankees earlier this week. Burnes may not hold that second record very long, as Cole's streak is still active.
- 2023 - By striking out Brice Turang and Joey Wiemer of the Brewers in the 5th inning, Zack Greinke becomes only the fifth pitcher in major league history to have struck out 1,000 different batters in his career. The veteran Royals hurler, who is in his 20th season, joins Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux and Roger Clemens in the exclusive club.
- 2024 - In a first, women are the lead television announcers for both teams in today's game between the Athletics and Astros. Jenny Cavnar was named the A's lead broadcaster before the start of the season, and for the occasion the Astros have announcer Todd Kalas and in-game reporter Julia Morales switch roles, with Morales, a long-time friend of Cavnar's, taking over in the broadcast booth.
Births[edit]
- 1851 - Frank Buttery, outfielder (d. 1902)
- 1853 - Felix Moses, manager (d. 1889)
- 1859 - Leo Smith, infielder (d. 1935)
- 1870 - George Bristow, outfielder (d. 1939)
- 1878 - Jack Burns, infielder (d. 1957)
- 1878 - Frank Hemphill, outfielder (d. 1950)
- 1883 - Jimmy Archer, catcher (d. 1958)
- 1884 - John Halla, pitcher (d. 1947)
- 1884 - Alex Main, pitcher (d. 1965)
- 1884 - Bert Niehoff, infielder (d. 1974)
- 1886 - Larry Gardner, infielder (d. 1976)
- 1886 - Fred Hutchinson, infielder (d. 1954)
- 1886 - Frank Miller, pitcher (d. 1974)
- 1890 - Otis Lambeth, pitcher (d. 1976)
- 1895 - Red Lanning, outfielder (d. 1962)
- 1895 - Frank Mills, catcher (d. 1983)
- 1897 - Hugh Canavan, pitcher (d. 1967)
- 1898 - Babe Dye, minor league outfielder (d. 1962)
- 1901 - Pat Burke, infielder (d. 1965)
- 1901 - Red Haley, infielder (d. 1976)
- 1901 - John Jones, outfielder (d. 1956)
- 1901 - Leo Taylor, pinch runner (d. 1982)
- 1902 - Hal Neubauer, pitcher (d. 1949)
- 1904 - Pen Gilliard, outfielder (d. 1981)
- 1909 - Leroy Morney, infielder; All-Star (d. 1980)
- 1910 - Boze Berger, infielder (d. 1992)
- 1910 - Bill McKinley, umpire (d. 1980)
- 1911 - Dynamite Dunn, minor league infielder (d. 1981)
- 1917 - Lou Stringer, infielder (d. 2008)
- 1918 - Carden Gillenwater, outfielder (d. 2000)
- 1918 - Lonnie Goldstein, infielder (d. 2013)
- 1919 - Bill Kinnamon, umpire (d. 2011)
- 1920 - Sam Segraves, outfielder (d. 1994)
- 1924 - Fredrick Ballantine, minor league catcher (d. 2013)
- 1924 - Cliff Fannin, pitcher (d. 1966)
- 1927 - Dusty Rhodes, outfielder (d. 2009)
- 1927 - Bob Smith, pitcher (d. 2003)
- 1929 - J.W. Wingate, minor league infielder
- 1932 - Jack Shepard, catcher (d. 1994)
- 1933 - Johnny Roseboro, catcher; All-Star (d. 2002)
- 1934 - Don LeJohn, infielder (d. 2005)
- 1934 - Leon Wagner, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2004)
- 1935 - Bill Dailey, pitcher
- 1935 - Merl Eberly, minor league catcher (d. 2011)
- 1937 - Hidetoshi Ikeda, NPB pitcher (d. 2023)
- 1939 - J. Con Maloney, minor league executive
- 1942 - Billy MacLeod, pitcher (d. 2018)
- 1942 - Jim Speight, college coach (d. 2018)
- 1947 - Steve Kealey, pitcher
- 1949 - Sumio Hirota, NPB outfielder
- 1949 - Terry Hughes, infielder
- 1950 - Juan Beniquez, outfielder
- 1950 - Omar Carrero, Cuban league pitcher (d. 2012)
- 1950 - Keiji Nagasaki, NPB outfielder
- 1950 - Bobby Valentine, infielder, manager
- 1951 - Pete Peckham, minor league pitcher (d. 2013)
- 1960 - Lenny Faedo, infielder
- 1961 - Rick Vanderhook, college coach
- 1962 - Sean McDonough, announcer
- 1963 - David Sheldon, minor league infielder
- 1965 - Greg Duce, Canadian national team infielder
- 1965 - Jose Rijo, pitcher; All-Star
- 1966 - Chris Nichting, pitcher
- 1968 - Braulio Castillo, outfielder
- 1969 - Lyle Mouton, outfielder
- 1970 - Ariel Benavides, Cuban league outfielder
- 1970 - Kenny Marrero, minor league pitcher
- 1971 - Pete Hartmann, minor league pitcher
- 1971 - Mike Sirotka, pitcher
- 1974 - Young-pil Choi, KBO pitcher
- 1974 - Shigeki Noguchi, NPB pitcher
- 1975 - Mickey Callaway, pitcher, manager
- 1975 - Jack Cressend, pitcher
- 1975 - Mingquan Zhu, China Baseball League pitcher
- 1976 - Mel Gregory, Australian women's national team outfielder
- 1976 - Trajan Langdon, minor league infielder
- 1977 - Robby Hammock, catcher
- 1977 - Chris Oxspring, pitcher
- 1978 - Ryan Bukvich, pitcher
- 1978 - Dorian Castro, minor league pitcher
- 1978 - Barry Zito, pitcher; All-Star
- 1979 - Ryan Larson, minor league pitcher
- 1980 - Jonathan Estes, college coach
- 1980 - Brad Purcell, CPBL pitcher
- 1982 - Jon Shehan, minor league catcher
- 1983 - Zach Jackson, pitcher
- 1983 - Rawell Rivera, Puerto Rican national team pitcher
- 1983 - Clay Timpner, outfielder
- 1984 - J. Brent Cox, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - John Ely, pitcher
- 1986 - Gustavo González, Panamanian national team pitcher
- 1986 - Jason Rice, minor league pitcher
- 1987 - Jin-woo Im, KBO pitcher
- 1987 - D.J. Mitchell, pitcher
- 1987 - Humberto Querales, minor league outfielder
- 1987 - Jung-rak Shin, KBO pitcher
- 1988 - Jonathan Laygo, Philippines national team outfielder
- 1989 - Sean McCauley, minor league catcher
- 1990 - Mychal Givens, pitcher
- 1990 - Meng-Hsiu Tsai, minor league catcher
- 1990 - Oscar Vejkdahl-Thorsberg, Elitserien infielder
- 1991 - Jason Leblebijian, minor league infielder
- 1991 - Tzu-Chieh Lin, CPBL infielder
- 1991 - Austin Maddox, pitcher
- 1991 - John Ryan Murphy, catcher
- 1992 - Willson Contreras, catcher; All-Star
- 1992 - Takuma Hasegawa, Japanese national team outfielder
- 1993 - Taylor Clarke, pitcher
- 1993 - Max Moroff, infielder
- 1993 - Gerardo Reyes, pitcher
- 1994 - Tatsuhiro Tamura, NPB catcher
- 1996 - Zheng Kang Chia, Singaporean national team infielder
- 1996 - Eli Morgan, pitcher
- 1996 - Justus Sheffield, pitcher
- 1997 - Nico Hoerner, infielder
- 1997 - DaShawn Keirsey, outfielder
- 1998 - Mickey Moniak, outfielder
- 2000 - Bruno Takenaka, Peruvian national team designated hitter
- 2001 - Haruto Inoue, NPB pitcher
- 2001 - José Rodríguez, infielder
Deaths[edit]
- 1881 - Mort Rogers, umpire (b. ????)
- 1903 - Tom Lynch, pitcher/infielder (b. 1863)
- 1905 - Sam Gillen, infielder (b. 1867)
- 1921 - John Farrell, infielder (b. 1876)
- 1929 - George Stallings, catcher, manager (b. 1867)
- 1935 - Art Lizzette, minor league catcher/first baseman (b. 1880)
- 1943 - Jack Hendricks, outfielder, manager (b. 1875)
- 1943 - Pat Malone, pitcher (b. 1902)
- 1953 - Jim Field, infielder (b. 1863)
- 1955 - Lefty George, pitcher (b. 1886)
- 1961 - Al Humphrey, outfielder (b. 1886)
- 1961 - Binky Jones, infielder (b. 1899)
- 1962 - Jake Plummer, minor league outfielder (b. 1909)
- 1965 - Bill Brown, outfielder (b. 1893)
- 1965 - Dick Wantz, pitcher (b. 1940)
- 1967 - Eddie Pick, infielder (b. 1899)
- 1967 - Jim Walsh, pitcher (b. 1894)
- 1970 - Urbane Pickering, infielder (b. 1899)
- 1970 - Johnny Stuart, pitcher (b. 1901)
- 1973 - Peanuts Davis, pitcher (b. 1917)
- 1977 - Adam DeBus, infielder (b. 1892)
- 1983 - Lerton Pinto, pitcher (b. 1899)
- 1984 - Vet Barnes, pitcher (b. 1911)
- 1984 - Walter French, outfielder (b. 1899)
- 1984 - Russ Young, catcher (b. 1902)
- 1989 - Al Reiss, infielder (b. 1909)
- 1991 - Hal Gregg, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1921)
- 1993 - Milt Jordan, pitcher (b. 1927)
- 1995 - Roland LeBlanc, scout (b. 1921)
- 2000 - Melzar Williams, outfielder (b. 1913)
- 2002 - Bill Rodgers, outfielder (b. 1922)
- 2003 - León Kellman, infielder; All-Star (b. 1921)
- 2007 - Gomer Hodge, infielder (b. 1944)
- 2010 - Jay Schlueter, outfielder (b. 1949)
- 2014 - Daniel Espitia, scout (b. ~1944)
- 2015 - Earl Averill, catcher (b. 1931)
- 2015 - Harold Thompson, college coach (b. 1916)
- 2016 - Sammy Ellis, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1941)
- 2016 - Mikio Kudo, NPB pitcher (b. 1960)
- 2016 - Dick McAuliffe, infielder; All-Star (b. 1939)
- 2020 - Garland Shifflett, pitcher (b. 1935)
- 2021 - Paul Susce, minor league pitcher (b. ~1935)
- 2022 - Maurice Fisher, pitcher (b. 1931)
- 2022 - Katsuhiko Kumazaki, NPB commissioner (b. 1942)
- 2023 - Bob Garibaldi, pitcher (b. 1942)
- 2024 - Bill Murphy, outfielder (b. 1944)
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