May 19
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on May 19.
Events[edit]
- 1903 - Due to Sunday restrictions in Cleveland, a major league game is played in Columbus, Ohio with the "hometown" Cleveland Naps defeating the New York Highlanders, 9 - 2.
- 1910:
- Cy Young wins the 500th game of his career as the Cleveland Naps beat the Washington Senators, 5 - 4, in 11 innings. He is the only pitcher in major league history to ever reach this milestone.
- The Boston Doves beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6 - 3, for the first time in 26 tries.
- 1913 - The Yankees score seven runs in the top of the 8th inning to beat the Browns, 8 - 6. In that inning Frank Chance grounds out as a pinch hitter for the pitcher, Ray Fisher, who is in the ninth spot in the lineup. When the New Yorkers approach the bottom of the order again in the same inning, Chance hits in the eighth spot instead of shortstop Claud Derrick. This time Chance singles and knocks in two runs. St. Louis protests to umpire George Hildebrand after the inning is over that Chance batted out of order, but he correctly tells them that it is too late.
- 1918 - The Senators play the first Sunday game in the District of Columbia, beating Cleveland in a dramatic, 1 - 0 twelve-inning contest in front of the largest crowd in the history of American League Park. The 17,000 spectators packed into the Washington, D.C. ballpark include 2,000 soldiers, who are guests of the team, several U.S. Senators, and a Justice from the Supreme Court.
- 1927 - White Sox players give their former manager, Eddie Collins, a wristwatch and diamond stickpin on his return to Chicago with the A’s.
- 1933 - For the first time in major league history, brothers on opposite teams hit home runs in the same game. Boston Red Sox catcher Rick Ferrell homers off his brother Wes Ferrell in the 2nd inning, but the Cleveland Indians pitcher returns the favor as he homers in the 3rd on a pitch called by his sibling. It is the only time that the Ferrell brothers homer in the same game.
- 1937 - Rookie Lou Fette is the winner over Johnny Vander Meer‚ who is making his first start in the majors, as the Boston Bees defeat the Reds, 3 - 1.
- 1951 - In a 9 - 4 loss to Boston‚ Cleveland's Al Rosen hits his second grand slam in a week. He hit one on the 13th against the White Sox.
- 1956 - At Forbes Field, Dale Long of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits a 9th-inning home run in a 7 - 4 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Long will hit home runs in each of his next seven games, establishing a major league record for home runs in consecutive games.
- 1959:
- In a game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente injures his right elbow. He is removed from the game in the 3rd inning and will not return to the starting lineup until July 9th.
- At Memorial Stadium, Baltimore Orioles pitcher Billy O'Dell hits a weird home run against the Chicago White Sox. His shot hits the foul line 120 feet from home plate and bounces over the head of right fielder Al Smith, allowing O'Dell to circle the bases. Thanks to O'Dell's two-run, inside-the-park home run, the Orioles win the game, 2 - 1. Billy Pierce is the loser.
- 1962 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes the National League career hits leader. The 41-year-old has a 9th-inning single for his 3,431st hit and moves past Honus Wagner. St. Louis beats the Dodgers, 8 - 1.
- 1963 - Bill Bruton of the Detroit Tigers ties a major league record by collecting four doubles in one game. Curiously, Bruton will total only 21 doubles on the season.
- 1964 - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ernie Broglio throws a major league record-tying three wild pitches in one inning. In an interesting twist, the Cardinals, who lose to the Chicago Cubs, 7 - 4, will trade Broglio to the Cubs later in the season. The deal will net St. Louis future Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock.
- 1968 - After hitting ten home runs in six consecutive games, establishing a new major league record, Frank Howard of the Washington Senators is stopped by Detroit Tigers pitcher Earl Wilson, who defeats the Senators, 5 - 4, in the first game of a doubleheader. In the second game, Al Kaline hits a two-run homer off Washington's Steve Jones to become the Tigers' all-time home run leader, surpassing Hank Greenberg. Detroit wins, 7 - 0, completing a sweep.
- 1970:
- The lawsuit filed by former St. Louis Cardinals All-Star Curt Flood against Major League Baseball begins its hearing in federal court. Judge Irving Ben Cooper presides over the case, which will reach the Supreme Court and result in the upholding of baseball's reserve clause.
- Ray Schalk dies in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 77. An excellent defensive catcher, Schalk played in the 1917 and 1919 World Series for the Chicago White Sox. In 1955, he gained induction into the Hall of Fame.
- 1971 - In its inaugural season, Riverfront Stadium's first-ever inside-the-park home run is hit by Roberto Clemente, a smash off Gary Nolan. The ball is hit high off the left-field wall over the reach of Bernie Carbo. The ball bounces high and back toward the infield past Buddy Bradford in center and by the time he is able to retrieve it on the rain-soaked turf, Clemente is rounding third. Clemente adds a triple that drives in a run and comes to score himself, then singles in another run in the 9th inning in a 6 - 1 decision over Cincinnati.
- 1976 - Carl Yastrzemski has the only three-homer game of his illustrious career, going deep three times in a 4-for-4 day in a 9 - 2 Red Sox win over the Tigers. He victimizes three different pitchers - Dave Roberts, Steve Grilli and John Hiller.
- 1979 - After a bitter six-week strike, the major league umpires return to work. During the work stoppage, the men in blue were replaced by amateur and minor league arbiters.
- 1981 - At Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jim Bibby narrowly misses a perfect game when he gives up a leadoff single to Terry Harper of the Atlanta Braves, then retires the next 27 batters for a 5 - 0 one-hitter. Bibby helps himself by hitting two doubles with one run and one RBI. Phil Niekro is the loser. In 1973, Bibby pitched a no-hitter for the Texas Rangers against the Oakland Athletics.
- 2000:
- Jason Kendall hits for the cycle and has a career-high five RBI, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 13 - 1 rout of the St. Louis Cardinals. Kendall hits a two-run home run in the 1st inning, an RBI single in the 2nd, a double in the 3rd and a two-run triple in the 8th. Kendall also becomes the first Pirate ever to hit for the cycle at Three Rivers Stadium.
- Miguel Ojeda becomes the third Mexican League player to hit four home runs in a game, following Roy Johnson and Derek Bryant. Ojeda is the first to do so in only four at-bats.
- 2001 - Reversing its original decision, MLB's official statistician, the Elias Sports Bureau, will now list Randy Johnson's 20 strikeouts as tying a record. Although the game went into extra innings, Johnson's nine-inning performance will be noted along with the Roger Clemens and Kerry Wood's 20 strikeouts outings in the 2002 record book.
- 2002 - Chicago Cubs first baseman Fred McGriff hits a two-run home run at Miller Park to tie Ellis Burks' record of homering in 40 different major league ballparks. The Cubs defeat the Brewers, 5 - 4, in 11 innings.
- 2004:
- 45-year-old Julio Franco breaks his own record for the oldest player in major league history to bat a home run as a pinch-hitter. Franco, who had a pinch-hit homer two weeks earlier against San Diego, hits a two-out, two-run homer to tie the game at 4 - 4 in the 8th inning. Despite Franco's effort, the Arizona Diamondbacks defeat the Atlanta Braves, 6 - 4, in 11 innings.
- Brad Thompson breaks a 97-year-old minor league record set in 1907 by Irvin Wilhelm by hurling 57 consecutive scoreless innings. Thompson sets the mark pitching in the Southern League for the Tennessee Smokies, a Double-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. He falls just two innings short of the professional mark of 59 established by Orel Hershiser in 1988.
- 2005 - Long-time Chunichi Dragons leader Kazuyoshi Tatsunami hits his 450th career double, breaking the Nippon Pro Baseball record formerly held by Yutaka Fukumoto.
- 2006:
- Melvin Mora signs a three-year extension with the Baltimore Orioles that will keep him with the club through the 2009 season. The new deal is worth a guaranteed $25 million and includes an option for a fourth year.
- In interleague play, David Wright wins the first Subway Series game of the year between the two New York City teams when he hits a two-out RBI single off Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Mets a 7 - 6 victory over the Yankees
- 2007 - Aaron Bates of the Lancaster JetHawks becomes the first player in the 61-year history of the California League to hit four home runs in one game. Amazingly, his teammate Brad Correll will match the feat just 35 days later.
- 2008:
- Jason Varitek catches his fourth no-hitter, tying Ray Schalk for the major league record; one of Schalk's no-hitters was later removed from the official records, making Varitek the first backstop to have four official no-hitters to his name. The hurler is Jon Lester, only two years after he was sidelined with lymphoma. The Red Sox top the Royals, 7 - 0, as Lester fans nine.
- In a 7 - 6 Twins victory over the Royals, rookie Bobby Korecky gets his first big league win with 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. More notably, he connects for a single, the first Twins pitcher ever to get a hit outside an interleague contest since the enactment of the designated hitter rule in 1973.
- 2009:
- The Nationals come back from a 5 - 0 deficit, score a run in the bottom of the 9th to send the game into extra innings, but lose 8 - 5 to the Pirates when Adam LaRoche belts a two-run double in the 10th. Washington has lost six straight games, in spite of scoring five runs or more in each contest. With Joe Beimel taking the loss, the Nats' bullpen is 1-14 for the year.
- Dontrelle Willis wins his first game in 20 months and his first in a Detroit Tigers uniform as the Tigers shut out the Rangers, 4 - 0. Willis retires 17 batters in a row at one point and snaps the Rangers' seven-game winning streak.
- Former Korea Baseball Organization batting champion Hae-yong Ma publishes a book claiming many foreign import players and some locals used steroids. The KBO instituted limited steroid testing in 2007 and had no global system due to cost concerns.
- 2010:
- Adrian Gonzalez homers and drives in six runs to snap the Dodgers' winning streak at nine games, as San Diego wins, 10 - 5. Also for the Padres, Will Venable has four hits, including two doubles and a triple, while Jon Garland records the win over his former team.
- The Yankees learn that C Jorge Posada has a broken bone in his right foot and will be out of action for three to four weeks. Francisco Cervelli has already assumed the bulk of the playing time behind the plate this season. Posada joins DH Nick Johnson, out with a wrist injury, and OF Curtis Granderson on the disabled list, while OF Marcus Thames and Nick Swisher are both day-to-day because of a sprained ankle and a sore biceps, respectively. The Rays take advantage of their banged-up opponents, beating them, 10 - 6, and increasing their lead in the AL East to four games.
- CF Angel Pagan hits the first inside-the-park homer in the history of Nationals Park in the 4th inning, starts a triple play in the 5th and for good measure makes a spectacular diving catch of Roger Bernadina's line drive with the bases loaded in the 6th, but New York still manages to lose for the ninth time in 11 games, 5 - 3 to the Nationals. It has been 55 years since Ted Kazanski was the last major leaguer to perform the two feats in the same game.
- 2011:
- After sitting on the bench for most of the season so far, veteran 1B Jason Giambi has the first three-homer game of his career in the Rockies' 7 - 1 win over Philadelphia. He hits homers in his first three at-bats, driving in all seven of his team's runs, but fails in his last two at-bats to become only the 16th player to hit four dingers in one game. Giambi entered the game hitting .115 with one homer and four RBI; at 40, he is the second-oldest player to hit three home runs in a game, after Stan Musial who was 41 when he accomplished the feat on July 8, 1962.
- After placing two of their starting pitchers, John Lackey and Daisuke Matsuzaka, on the disabled list earlier this week, the Red Sox sign Kevin Millwood to a minor league contract and acquire Franklin Morales from the Rockies for a player to be named later; they also designate for assignment Japanese reliever Hideki Okajima. The veteran Millwood spent a month in the Yankees' system earlier this year but asked for his release when it became clear that there was little chance he would be called up to the majors in the near future.
- 2012 - Brandon Morrow pitches a three-hit shutout for the Blue Jays, who beat the Mets, 2 - 0. Morrow is now 5-2 with a pair of shutouts and a 2.63 ERA after signing a long-term contract in the off-season.
- 2013:
- Miguel Cabrera hits three homers for the second time of his career, but it's not enough as Texas beats Detroit, 11 - 8. Daniel Murphy hits a three-run homer in the 6th inning for Texas, to negate Cabrera's 4-for-4, five-RBI night. In his other plate appearance, the Rangers walk Miggy to load the bases, but Prince Fielder follows with a three-run double. For the Rangers, Adrian Beltre goes 4 for 5 with two doubles and Geovany Soto and Lance Berkman both have three hits.
- Matt Moore pitches seven innings and picks up the win as Tampa Bay defeats Baltimore, 3 - 1. Moore is now 8-0, and has nine consecutive wins for a franchise record; the 23-year-old is the youngest lefthander to begin a season 8-0 since Babe Ruth in 1917.
- 2014 - The Tigers see their 11-game road winning streak ended after a very long day. Having been delayed in leaving Boston, MA, they arrive in Cleveland only three hours before game time, then extend the game when J.D. Martinez hits a pinch homer in the 9th to require extra innings. However, Michael Brantley hits a walk-off homer off Al Alburquerque in the 10th to end the game, 5 - 4.
- 2015 - Ryan Zimmerman of the Nationals connects for a walk-off homer off Yankees closer Andrew Miller in the 10th inning to give Washington an 8 - 6 win and put them into a tie for first place in the NL East with the New York Mets after starting the year 7-13. For Zimmerman, it is the tenth such home run of his career; for Miller, it's a first blown save after converting his first 13 save chances of the season.
- 2017 - The Rangers win their tenth straight game, 5 - 3, over the Tigers, thanks to homers by Mike Napoli and Joey Gallo while Nick Martinez wins a start for the first time since August 2015. However, they are still 6 1/2 games back of the Astros in the AL West, as Houston has won eight of ten during that span.
- 2018 - The Rays have been experimenting with "bullpen days" all season, when the starting pitcher is not expected to go deep into the game, going all out for three or four innings before handing the ball over to another reliever, but today they take it even further. Short reliever Sergio Romo starts today's game against the Angels, his first start in the majors after 588 appearances out of the bullpen, and is only asked to pitch one inning before handing the ball over to Ryan Yarbrough. The plan works perfectly as Romo strikes out the three men he faces - Zack Cozart, Mike Trout and Justin Upton, all righthanders - then hands the ball over to lefty Yarbrough in the 2nd. Yarbrough pitches scoreless ball until allowing a run in the 8th as Tampa Bay wins, 5 - 3. It is the first time a starting pitcher leaves after a perfect 1st inning since Ernie Shore had done so on October 5, 1915. Manager Kevin Cash is so pleased with how the scheme goes that he picks Romo to start the next day's game as well.
- 2021 - Corey Kluber of the Yankees is the latest pitcher to join this season's no-hitter parade, pulling off the feat with a 2 - 0 win over the Rangers at Globe Life Field. It is already the sixth nine-inning no-hitter this year, and comes one day after Spencer Turnbull of the Tigers had pitched the previous one.
- 2023:
- The CTBC Brothers record the first combined no-hitter in CPBL history. Hao-Chun Cheng goes the first 6 1/3 innings against the Fubon Guardians and is succeeded by Jung-Hao Hsieh, Chun-Wei Wu and Yen-Ching Lu in a 3 - 0 win.
- Michael Kopech and Kendall Graveman face the minimum 27 batters in a 2 - 0 one-hitter for the White Sox against the Royals. Kopech, who strikes out ten over eight innings, allows the only baserunner when Michael Massey hits a one-out single in the 6th, but he is immediately erased when Jackie Bradley Jr. grounds into a double play.
- 2024 - In defeating the Braves, 9 - 1, San Diego's Yu Darvish earns his combined 200th win between Japan and MLB. He pitches seven scoreless innings, allowing just two hits in a dominant performance, to become only the third pitcher after Hiroki Kuroda and Hideo Nomo to reach the rare mark among those who have recorded wins in both major leagues. Darvish also becomes the first starting pitcher to join the Meikyukai since Kuroda.
Births[edit]
- 1867 - Ed Hutchinson, infielder (d. 1934)
- 1870 - Ed O'Neil, pitcher (d. 1908)
- 1874 - Pop Williams, pitcher (d. 1959)
- 1879 - Nick Carter, pitcher (d. 1961)
- 1880 - Hughie Tate, outfielder (d. 1956)
- 1881 - Ed Walsh, pitcher, manager, umpire; Hall of Famer (d. 1959)
- 1883 - Eddie Files, pitcher (d. 1954)
- 1886 - Red Nelson, pitcher (d. 1956)
- 1889 - Wally Snell, catcher (d. 1980)
- 1891 - George Clark, pitcher (d. 1940)
- 1891 - Dutch Schliebner, infielder (d. 1975)
- 1892 - Jim Hickman, outfielder (d. 1958)
- 1893 - Otto Ray, catcher, manager (d. 1976)
- 1894 - James Washburn, minor league infielder (d. 1969)
- 1895 - Ray Kennedy, pinch hitter (d. 1969)
- 1896 - Merito Acosta, outfielder (d. 1963)
- 1897 - Bud Culloton, pitcher (d. 1976)
- 1901 - Newt Allen, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1988)
- 1905 - Goose Curry, outfielder, manager (d. 1974)
- 1910 - Tommy Thompson, outfielder (d. 1971)
- 1911 - Nub Kleinke, pitcher (d. 1950)
- 1913 - Theolic Smith, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1981)
- 1915 - Jake Early, catcher; All-Star (d. 1985)
- 1917 - Skippy Roberge, infielder (d. 1993)
- 1919 - Earl Naylor, outfielder (d. 1990)
- 1921 - Choichi Aida, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 2012)
- 1921 - John Carden, pitcher (d. 1949)
- 1922 - Stan Karpinski, minor league pitcher/outfielder (d. 1980)
- 1926 - Mike Kume, pitcher (d. 2012)
- 1927 - Bill Antonello, outfielder (d. 1993)
- 1928 - Gil McDougald, infielder; All-Star (d. 2010)
- 1929 - Curt Simmons, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2022)
- 1930 - Boyd Veal, minor league pitcher (d. 2012)
- 1931 - Woo-hong Eoh, KBO manager
- 1935 - Akitada Tsukuda, NPB catcher
- 1936 - Tatsuo Okitsu, NPB infielder (d. 2022)
- 1941 - Peter Bjarkman, author (d. 2018)
- 1941 - Mike Lee, pitcher
- 1941 - Larry McCoy, umpire
- 1944 - Stan Swanson, outfielder (d. 2017)
- 1948 - Al Santorini, pitcher
- 1952 - Dan Ford, outfielder
- 1954 - Rick Bradley, minor league catcher
- 1954 - Rick Cerone, catcher
- 1955 - Jun-hwan Kim, KBO outfielder and manager
- 1955 - Alan Knicely, catcher
- 1955 - Ed Whitson, pitcher; All-Star
- 1956 - Luis Salazar, infielder
- 1956 - Eric Show, pitcher (d. 1994)
- 1957 - Ben Callahan, pitcher (d. 2007)
- 1958 - Fritzie Connally, infielder
- 1961 - Ken Gerhart, outfielder
- 1963 - In-ho Baek, KBO infielder
- 1964 - Luis Aquino, pitcher
- 1966 - Jim Campbell, pitcher
- 1966 - Hiroaki Matsuura, NPB pitcher
- 1966 - Shintaro Yamasaki, NPB pitcher
- 1967 - David Chavarria, minor league pitcher
- 1967 - Turk Wendell, pitcher
- 1968 - Mike Brady, minor league pitcher
- 1968 - Alan Zinter, infielder
- 1969 - Phil Leftwich, pitcher
- 1971 - Jae-jung Jang, KBO catcher
- 1971 - Scott Samuels, minor league outfielder
- 1972 - Scott McClain, infielder
- 1975 - Josh Paul, catcher
- 1975 - Darren White, minor league outfielder
- 1976 - Chris Fussell, pitcher
- 1976 - Pete Paciorek, minor league infielder
- 1976 - Josh Walker, minor league pitcher
- 1976 - Zhanpeng Wang, Chinese national team pitcher
- 1977 - Rafael Cruz, NPB and minor league pitcher
- 1977 - Dan Giese, pitcher
- 1977 - Brandon Inge, catcher; All-Star
- 1977 - Jim Lira, minor league pitcher
- 1977 - Katsumi Yamashita, NPB infielder
- 1979 - Jake Daubert, minor league infielder
- 1981 - Heidi Watney, broadcaster
- 1982 - Blake Eager, minor league pitcher
- 1982 - Oscar Villamar, minor league catcher
- 1983 - Aaron Hornostaj, minor league infielder
- 1984 - Pornthep Chetthapanrangsri, Thai national team outfielder
- 1984 - Ruben Flores, minor league pitcher
- 1984 - Ho-sin Lee, KBO outfielder
- 1985 - Ji-wan Na, KBO outfielder
- 1986 - Wei Lin, CPBL catcher
- 1986 - Joe Paterson, pitcher
- 1986 - Yang Yang, China Baseball League catcher
- 1987 - Jhon García, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Zack Thornton, minor league pitcher
- 1989 - Kazunari Abe, NPB pitcher
- 1990 - José Aguilar, minor league outfielder
- 1990 - Ana Castellanos, Cuban women's national team pitcher
- 1990 - Mattia Reginato, Italian Baseball League catcher
- 1990 - Adán Velázquez, minor league infielder
- 1991 - Ji-Man Choi, infielder
- 1992 - Adriane Ros Bernardo, Philippines national team infielder
- 1992 - Nico Filice, Elitserien infielder
- 1993 - Brian Anderson, infielder
- 1993 - Mario Germán, Dominican national team pitcher
- 1994 - Stefano Navas, Ecuador national team catcher
- 1994 - Ricky Torres, Bundesliga pitcher
- 1995 - Deiferson Barreto, minor league infielder
- 1995 - Ronnie Dawson, outfielder
- 1995 - Yuki Nakayama, Japanese national team infielder
- 1996 - Adam Goss, college coach
- 1996 - Erich Uelmen, pitcher
- 1996 - Connor Wong, catcher
- 1997 - Conner Capel, outfielder
- 1997 - An-Ko Lin, CPBL outfielder
- 1997 - Victor Robles, outfielder
- 1998 - Sergio Palacio, signed pitcher
- 1999 - Bryce Elder, pitcher; All-Star
- 1999 - Deivi García, pitcher
- 1999 - Ortwin Pieternella Jr., minor league catcher
- 2004 - Meng-Yang Lu, CPBL pitcher
- 2005 - Jaison Chourio, minor league outfielder
Deaths[edit]
- 1894 - Bill Mountjoy, pitcher (b. 1858)
- 1917 - Pat McManus, pitcher (b. 1859)
- 1922 - Bob Reach, infielder (b. 1843)
- 1933 - Wes Curry, pitcher (b. 1860)
- 1936 - Sammy Curran, pitcher (b. 1874)
- 1936 - Bob Leadley, manager (b. 1858)
- 1938 - Silver King, pitcher (b. 1868)
- 1941 - Joe Gedeon, infielder (b. 1893)
- 1941 - John Schulze, catcher (b. 1866)
- 1946 - Jack Stafford, umpire (b. 1879)
- 1946 - John Tener, pitcher; executive (b. 1863)
- 1947 - Tex Hoffman, infielder (b. 1893)
- 1950 - Wattie Holm, outfielder (b. 1901)
- 1953 - Sam Leever, pitcher (b. 1871)
- 1960 - Leo Fishel, pitcher (b. 1877)
- 1960 - George Winkelman, pitcher/outfielder (b. 1865)
- 1962 - Bernard Cobb, minor league infielder (b. 1909)
- 1965 - Eric Erickson, pitcher (b. 1892)
- 1966 - Hyotaro Kondo, college coach; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1888)
- 1967 - Jiggs Parson, pitcher (b. 1885)
- 1969 - Jim Tobin, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1912)
- 1970 - Ray Schalk, catcher, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1892)
- 1972 - Felix McLaurin, outfielder (b. 1921)
- 1973 - Jim Moore, pitcher (b. 1903)
- 1993 - Oscar Grimes, infielder; All-Star (b. 1915)
- 1994 - Jae-won Shim, KBO catcher (b. 1953)
- 1995 - Fred Frink, outfielder (b. 1911)
- 1996 - Johnny Berardino, infielder (b. 1917)
- 1998 - Al Reitz, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1904)
- 2000 - Willie Hubert, pitcher (b. 1913)
- 2001 - Joe Lovitto, outfielder (b. 1951)
- 2008 - Bill Andress, umpire (b. 1924)
- 2008 - Larry Zirbel, umpire (b. 1921)
- 2010 - Bernard Healy, minor league outfielder (b. 1917)
- 2016 - Jim Ray Hart, infielder; All-Star (b. 1941)
- 2017 - Dave McDonald, infielder (b. 1943)
- 2017 - Ed Mierkowicz, outfielder (b. 1924)
- 2017 - Steve Waterbury, pitcher (b. 1952)
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