October 28
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on October 28.
Events[edit]
- 1953 - Red Barber resigns from the Brooklyn Dodgers broadcast booth and takes a job with the rival New York Yankees.
- 1954 - Major League Baseball owners vote down the sale of the Philadelphia Athletics to a hometown syndicate. A week later, Arnold Johnson will buy a controlling interest in the Athletics from the Mack family for $3.5 million and move the team to Kansas City.
- 1958 - In San Francisco, construction begins on the new ballpark for the Giants. The rocks in the area resemble candlesticks.
- 1961 - Workers break ground on a new ballpark in Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY. Shea Stadium will become the home of the expansion New York Mets in 1964.
- 1968 - Future Hall of Famer Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals wins his first Cy Young Award. Gibson is a unanimous choice after dominating hitters with a 22-9 record and an ERA of 1.12 during the "Year of the Pitcher."
- 1979 - The New York Yankees replace fired manager Billy Martin with Dick Howser, the head coach of the Florida State Seminoles and a former coach with the Bronx Bombers. In 1980, Howser will lead the Yankees to 103 victories but will be fired in turn after failing to advance in the ALCS.
- 1981 - Behind the solid pitching of Burt Hooton, the Los Angeles Dodgers complete a World Series comeback, defeating the New York Yankees, 9 - 2, in Game 6. The Dodgers had trailed the Series two games to none before bouncing back to win four straight games. Pedro Guerrero drives in five runs for Los Angeles, who avenge two six-game World Series defeats to the Yankees in 1977 and 1978. It is the third time this postseason Los Angeles comes from behind to win a series: they were 0-2 behind Houston in the NLDS and 1-2 behind the Expos in the NLCS. Guerrero, Ron Cey and Steve Yeager share the Series MVP Award.
- 1984 - The Cuban national team routs Team USA, 10 - 1, in the final day of action at the 1984 Amateur World Series; Cuba had already clinched the gold medal. 1B Antonio Munoz is 4 for 4 with two homers while US star Barry Bonds goes hitless.
- 1988 - San Diego trades Keith Moreland and Chris Brown to the Tigers for pitcher Walt Terrell.
- 1989 - The Oakland Athletics complete a sweep in the World Series with a 9 - 6 win over the San Francisco Giants. Rickey Henderson's home run supports starter and winner Mike Moore. Dave Stewart is named Series MVP after winning the first and third game of the Series, which was interrupted by the Loma Prieta earthquake.
- 1995 - The Braves win their first World Series since moving to Atlanta with a 1 - 0 shutout of Cleveland in Game 6. Pitchers Tom Glavine and Mark Wohlers combine on a one-hitter and David Justice hits a home run in the 6th inning for the only run. Jim Poole is the losing pitcher.
- 2000 - The Yomiuri Giants beat the Daiei Hawks, 9 - 3, to finish up the 2000 Japan Series. The Series was noted for the opposing managers, long-time teammates Sadaharu Oh and Shigeo Nagashima. Kenji Johjima hits his fourth homer of the Series in a losing cause. Hideki Matsui is named Series MVP.
- 2001:
- In the World Series, Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks pitches a three-hit shutout to defeat the Yankees, 4 - 0, taking a 2-0 advantage in the Series. Matt Williams becomes the first player in World Series history to hit home runs with three different teams. He homered in the Fall Classic for the Indians in 1997 and the Giants in 1989, prior to doing so for Arizona today.
- In Game 6 of the 2001 Korean Series, the Doosan Bears lead the Samsung Lions, 6 - 5. One out away from the title, Doosan faces a tough situation with two men on and regular-season home run leader Seung-yeop Lee coming up to face struggling closer Pil-jung Jin. At the height of the drama, the outfield lights go out, causing a 15-minute delay. Lee winds up singling but the runners don't score and Jin gets the final out to lock up a Korean Series win for the Bears. Tyrone Woods, who hit four home runs, is named MVP.
- Curt Schilling, who named his son Gehrig, receives the Roberto Clemente Award for his contributions to numerous charities, including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, which is better known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease". The Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher, who won the World Series opener yesterday, was selected due his outstanding baseball skills combined with devoted work within the community.
- 2002:
- The New York Mets, after being unable to get permission to talk to manager Lou Piniella from Seattle, and deciding not to wait ten days after the World Series for the availability of San Francisco skipper Dusty Baker, give Art Howe a four-year, $9.4 million deal to manage the team. Howe managed the Oakland Athletics to two AL West titles in 2000 and 2002 with his teams winning 383 games during the last four seasons, matching Joe Torre's total for the Yankees. A day later, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays will name Piniella as their team's new skipper, signing him to a four-year contract. As compensation to sign Piniella away from Seattle, Tampa Bay will send All-Star outfielder Randy Winn, who hit .298 with 14 home runs and 75 RBI, to Seattle for minor leaguer Antonio Perez.
- The Florida Marlins do not renew the contract of John Routh, the 43-year-old man who has been known as mascot "Billy the Marlin", since Florida's first game in 1993. Although Billy will return next season, a new person will be hired to wear the 35-pound costume as the team seeks to increase the mascot's visibility by changing the overall role of the character.
- 2007:
- The Red Sox win their second Championship of the decade, with their sweep of the Rockies in the 2007 World Series. Colorado had won 21 of 22 games entering the Series before falling flat. They lose Game 4 by a 4 - 3 score, thanks to 5 2/3 scoreless innings from Jon Lester. Mike Lowell is named World Series MVP.
- The Uni-President Lions win Game 7 of the 2007 Taiwan Series, 4 - 2, for their fifth title. They beat the La New Bears, who had beaten them in the 2006 Series in a sweep. Nelson Figueroa wins his third game of the Series to earn MVP honors in leading the Lions to the title, while the bottom of the batting order paves the way in this contest with some clutch hitting.
- 2009 - The Philadelphia Phillies win Game 1 of the World Series, 6 - 1, over the New York Yankees, as Cliff Lee outpitches CC Sabathia in a duel of former Cy Young Award winners. Chase Utley hits a pair of homers. It is the latest starting date in the history of the Fall Classic.
- 2010:
- The Nippon Pro Baseball amateur draft is held. Six of the twelve teams pick Tatsuya Oishi of Waseda University, with the Seibu Lions winning bargaining rights. Four teams choose Oishi's teammate, Yuki Saito, with the Nippon Ham Fighters winning bargaining rights. A third Waseda hurler (Yuya Fukui) is chosen by the Hiroshima Carp after their bid for Oishi fails; it is the first time a Japanese college has three pitchers chosen in the first round.
- In Game 2 of the 2010 World Series, the Giants rout the Rangers, 9 - 0, but the score is only 1 - 0 in the 7th when Texas starter C.J. Wilson leaves with a blister on his finger. Matt Cain and two relievers combine on a four-hit shutout. Texas has allowed 20 runs in the first two World Series games in franchise history, setting a major league record.
- 2011:
- The SK Wyverns win Game 3 of the 2011 Korean Series, 2 - 1, against the Samsung Lions. In all three games so far, neither team has scored more than two runs. Today, SK left fielder Jae-sang Park is the star, with a solo homer and a throw which retires a runner at home.
- The St. Louis Cardinals win the 11th title of their history by defeating the Texas Rangers, 6 - 2, in Game 7 of the World Series. Texas takes a two-run lead in the top of the 1st, but Series MVP David Freese ties the score with a two-run double in the bottom of the inning. Chris Carpenter then keeps the Rangers from adding to their score, while Allen Craig hits a 3rd-inning homer off Matt Harrison. The Cards add two runs without getting a hit in the 5th and, typically, St. Louis manager Tony LaRussa uses four relievers to get the last nine outs. It is an unlikely title for a team that was 10 1/2 games out on August 25th and twice was down to its last strike in Game 6.
- 2012:
- The Giants complete a sweep of the Tigers in the World Series with a 4 - 3, ten-inning win in Game 4. Miguel Cabrera, Delmon Young and Buster Posey all homer as the two teams are tied, 3 - 3, after nine innings, then Marco Scutaro drives in Ryan Theriot for the winning run in the top of the 10th. Sergio Romo ends the game by striking out Cabrera, picking up his third save. It is the Giants' second Championship in three years. Pablo Sandoval, author of a three-homer performance in Game 1, is named World Series MVP.
- In Game 2 of the 2012 Japan Series, Hirokazu Sawamura outduels Masaru Takeda, 1 - 0, to give the Yomiuri Giants another win over the Nippon Ham Fighters. All the scoring comes in the bottom of the 1st on a leadoff homer by Hisayoshi Chono. The Fighters rally in the 9th, getting men on the corners against reliever Tetsuya Yamaguchi, but Scott Mathieson relieves and gets pinch-hitter Tomohiro Nioka to end it.
- 2013:
- Masahiro Tanaka wins the Sawamura Award for 2013 after going 24-0 with a 1.27 ERA for the Rakuten Golden Eagles. He had previously won the award in 2011 and set Nippon Pro Baseball records for wins in consecutive starts and consecutive wins without a loss.
- The Red Sox take a three-games-to-two lead in the World Series with a 3 - 1 win over the Cardinals. David Ortiz continues to be unstoppable at the plate, getting three more hits to increase his average for the Series to .733, while back-up C David Ross has the big blow, a tie-breaking ground rule double in the 7th. Jon Lester prevails over Adam Wainwright for the second time.
- 2014 - The Royals force a seventh game in the World Series by routing the Giants, 10 - 0, behind the pitching of rookie Yordano Ventura in Game 6. The Royals score seven runs in the 2nd inning to chase starter Jake Peavy as every starting position player gets at least a hit and either scores or drives in a run.
- 2015:
- The Royals take Game 2 of the World Series, 7 - 1 over the Mets, behind an outstanding performance by Johnny Cueto, who pitches a two-hitter. Eric Hosmer drives in two runs to put Kansas City ahead in the 5th and Alcides Escobar adds a run-scoring triple. It's the first complete game by an American League pitcher in a World Series game since Jack Morris's masterful performance in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.
- Major League Baseball honors its top relief pitchers as Mark Melancon of the Pirates wins the Trevor Hoffman Award as the outstanding reliever in the National League while Andrew Miller of the Yankees wins the Mariano Rivera Award, its equivalent in the American League.
- 2016 - In the first World Series game played at Wrigley Field in 71 years, the Indians eke out a 1 - 0 victory over the Cubs in Game 3 of the 2016 World Series. Pinch-runner Michael Martinez scores the only run in the 7th when he is driven in from third base by pinch-hitter Coco Crisp's single. Cody Allen ends the game by striking out Ben Zobrist with two runners in scoring position.
- 2017:
- Kenley Jansen of the Dodgers becomes the first repeat winner of the Trevor Hoffman Award, given to the best relief pitcher in the National League, while Craig Kimbrel of the Red Sox wins the equivalent award in the American League, the Mariano Rivera Award. With this win, Kimbrel becomes the first pitcher to have won both awards.
- Having worn the dreaded Golden Sombrero the day before, Cody Bellinger breaks out of his slump by leading the Dodgers to a 6 - 2 win over the Astros in Game 4 of the 2017 World Series. His double in the 7th leads to the tying run and another in the 9th drives in the go-ahead run as Los Angeles scores five times. Houston is limited to two hits, both solo homers, by George Springer and Alex Bregman, while Joc Pederson hits a three-run shot in the Dodgers' big inning.
- The Softbank Hawks open the 2017 Japan Series with a 10 - 1 romp at home over the Yokohama BayStars. Kodai Senga gets the win, Yuki Yanagita has two runs and two RBI and Alfredo Despaigne goes 3 for 4 with one run and two RBI to propel the Hawks to victory.
- 2018:
- After Game 1 of the 2018 Japan Series ended in a tie, the Hiroshima Carp beat the Softbank Hawks, 5 - 1, in Game 2. Kris Johnson retires 19 of the first 21 batters and Geronimo Franzua and Shota Nakazaki close it out. Seiya Suzuki has three hits and three RBI for Hiroshima, while Kosuke Tanaka has three hits and two runs.
- The Red Sox win their ninth Championship and fourth since 2004 by defeating the Dodgers, 5 - 1, in Game 5 of the World Series. David Price pitches seven strong innings after allowing a lead-off homer to David Freese, but not before Boston had taken a 2 - 0 lead on a homer by Steve Pearce off Clayton Kershaw. Mookie Betts, J.D. Martinez and Pearce all hit solo shots later in the game to put the score out of reach, while Joe Kelly and Chris Sale combine to strike out the last six Dodgers batters in order. Pearce is named winner of the World Series Most Valuable Player Award.
- 2019 - During an off-day in the World Series, the Pirates announce that they have fired General Manager Neal Huntington after a last-place finish, while the Red Sox announce the hiring of Chaim Bloom as Head of Baseball Operations, in replacement of David Dombrowski who was fired a few weeks earlier.
- 2020 - A day after the successful completion of the World Series in spite of extremely complicated circumstances, Major League Baseball gets a huge black eye when it is revealed that one of the players involved, Dodgers 3B Justin Turner, returned a positive test for COVID-19 during the final game. While he was quietly removed from the game in the 8th inning and placed in isolation, in accordance with agreed protocols, the problems occurred during the ensuing championship celebrations, as Turner "emphatically refused to comply" with security personnel and joined his teammates on the field, posing with the World Series Trophy while ignoring all precautions. Condemnation around the country is swift and harsh, and Commissioner Rob Manfred announces he will open an investigation, although it will reveal that Turner was given contradictory information by staff, letting him off the hook.
- 2021 - The Padres hire veteran Bob Melvin as their manager, as his current employer, the Athletics, agree to let him go after 11 seasons at the helm. This marks a completely different direction for the Padres, whose most recent skipper, Jayce Tingler, had no prior managerial experience - and it sometimes showed as the team underperformed badly in the season that just ended.
- 2022 - In Game 1 of the World Series, the Astros take a 5 - 0 lead after three innings thanks in large part to two home runs by Kyle Tucker against Aaron Nola. But the Phillies come back with five runs of their own against Justin Verlander in the 4th and 5th innings, and the game eventually goes to extra innings. J.T. Realmuto puts Philadelphia ahead, 6 - 5, with a homer off Luis Garcia in the 10th, and David Robertson gets the save when umpire James Hoye nullifies a hit-by-pitch of Aledmys Diaz, which would have loaded the bases, because he leaned into the pitch; Diaz then flies out to end the game.
- 2023:
- The Diamondbacks tie up the World Series with a 9 - 1 win over the Rangers in Game 2. Merrill Kelly pitches seven excellent innings but the game is close until Arizona scores seven runs over the final three innings. Gabriel Moreno opens the scoring with the game's lone homer, while Tommy Pham has four of the D-Backs' 16 hits. Ketel Marte sets a new record by extending his postseason hitting streak to 18 games, breaking a four-way tie.
- Colombia wins their first Pan American Games baseball Gold, routing Brazil, 9 - 1, in the title game; it is Brazil's first medal in the event. Víctor Vargas and three relievers combine on a four-hitter while Dilson Herrera's three hits pace a 17-hit Colombian attack. For Colombia, it is a strong comeback from dropping their first two games then squeaking into the Super Round by winning their third; they then took their final three games to get the Gold.
- In the 2023 Japan Series opener, the Hanshin Tigers demolish the defending champion Orix Buffaloes, 8 - 0. Rookie Shoki Murakami allows two hits in seven shutout innings while pitching Triple Crown winner Yoshinobu Yamamoto is knocked out with seven runs in 5 2/3 IP. Koji Chikamoto scores two, drives in two and falls a homer shy of the cycle.
- 2024:
- The KIA Tigers become the first KBO franchise to win a Korean Series in all five decades of the league's existence. They beat the Samsung Lions, four games to one, in the 2024 Korean Series. Today, they fall behind, 5 - 1, thanks to two two-run bombs by Lewin Díaz but the bullpen throws 6 1/3 shutout innings and Hyoung-woo Choi becomes the oldest player to homer in a Korean postseason. Sun-bin Kim is named Korean Series MVP after going 10-for-17, edging out Tae-gun Kim 46 votes to 45; Tae-gun Kim drives in the go-ahead run in today's 7 - 5 clincher.
- The Dodgers take a three-games-to-none lead in the World Series by beating the Yankees, 4 - 2, in Game 3 played at New Yankee Stadium. Freddie Freeman homers with one on in the 1st inning off Clarke Schmidt - a record-tying fifth consecutive World Series game in which he has gone deep, going back to 2021, and the Dodgers add a couple more runs before Alex Verdugo hits a two-run bomb of his own in the bottom of the 9th - but it is too little, too late.
- Salvador Pérez in named the recipient of the Roberto Clemente Award for his on-field excellence and charitable efforts off the field.
Births[edit]
- 1859 - Art Sladen, outfielder (d. 1914)
- 1863 - Tommy Tucker, infielder (d. 1935)
- 1864 - Dan Dugdale, catcher (d. 1934)
- 1867 - Bill Wilson, catcher (d. 1924)
- 1875 - Bert Miller, pitcher (d. 1937)
- 1877 - Joe Adams, pitcher (d. 1952)
- 1877 - Vive Lindaman, pitcher (d. 1927)
- 1878 - Joe Safford, minor league outfielder (d. 1952)
- 1879 - Benny Bowcock, infielder (d. 1961)
- 1879 - Frank Smith, pitcher (d. 1952)
- 1883 - Frank Lange, pitcher (d. 1945)
- 1884 - Chet Chadbourne, outfielder (d. 1943)
- 1886 - Ed McDonald, infielder (d. 1946)
- 1887 - Fred Ankenman, minor league executive (d. 1979)
- 1888 - Hurley McNair, outfielder (d. 1948)
- 1890 - Doc Lavan, infielder (d. 1952)
- 1892 - Bill McCabe, infielder (d. 1966)
- 1894 - John Bischoff, catcher (d. 1981)
- 1896 - Frank Okrie, pitcher (d. 1959)
- 1896 - Roxy Snipes, pinch hitter (d. 1941)
- 1896 - W.P. Young, manager (d. 1968)
- 1899 - Percy Jones, pitcher (d. 1979)
- 1900 - Johnny Neun, infielder, manager (d. 1990)
- 1903 - Hank Boney, pitcher (d. 2002)
- 1904 - Liz Funk, outfielder (d. 1968)
- 1904 - Ed Kallina, minor league infielder (d. ????)
- 1904 - Joe O'Rourke, pinch hitter (d. 1990)
- 1906 - Ed Clough, outfielder (d. 1944)
- 1907 - George Hennessey, pitcher (d. 1988)
- 1910 - Makoto Hosaka, stadium company president; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1996)
- 1911 - Lloyd Davenport, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1995)
- 1911 - Antonio Valdés, Cuban national team infielder (d. 1996)
- 1914 - Johnny Rigney, pitcher (d. 1984)
- 1915 - Robert Dean, pitcher (d. ????)
- 1916 - Ed Levy, outfielder (d. 2008)
- 1917 - Kengo Kuroda, NPB infielder (d. 1979)
- 1917 - Joe Page, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1980)
- 1920 - Artie Wilson, infielder; All-Star (d. 2010)
- 1921 - Robert White, minor league infielder and manager
- 1922 - Lloyd Pearson, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 2019)
- 1923 - Bob Wakefield, minor league outfielder (d. 2008)
- 1925 - Luis Márquez, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1988)
- 1926 - Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner, Hall of Famer (d. 2007)
- 1926 - Rudy Rufer, infielder (d. 2010)
- 1931 - Gair Allie, infielder (d. 2016)
- 1935 - Bob Veale, pitcher; All-Star
- 1937 - Larry Smith, college coach (d. 2022)
- 1938 - Mario Pelaez, minor league pitcher and manager (d. 2011)
- 1942 - Alfredo Mariscal, minor league pitcher (d. 2021)
- 1951 - Joel Serna, minor league infielder and manager
- 1952 - Shinya Kobayashi, NPB outfielder
- 1954 - Gary Rajsich, infielder
- 1954 - Sammy Stewart, pitcher (d. 2018)
- 1955 - Dick Cooke, minor league player; college coach
- 1959 - Oscar Brito, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)
- 1960 - Mark Knudson, pitcher
- 1961 - Bob Melvin, catcher, manager
- 1962 - Ray Roman, minor league catcher (d. 2009)
- 1964 - Lenny Harris, infielder
- 1965 - Larry Casian, pitcher
- 1966 - Tim Bogar, infielder; manager
- 1966 - Argenis Cortes, minor league pitcher
- 1966 - Juan Guzman, pitcher; All-Star
- 1967 - Allen Liebert, minor league catcher
- 1967 - Jimmy Morrison, minor league outfielder/pitcher (d. 2014)
- 1969 - Kirk Bullinger, pitcher
- 1969 - Noriyoshi Omichi, NPB outfielder
- 1971 - Brian O'Halloran, General Manager
- 1972 - David Rigoli, minor league infielder
- 1972 - Takemoto Tamano, Japanese national team coach
- 1972 - Zeke Zimmerman, minor league catcher
- 1973 - Morne Mackay, South African national team infielder
- 1974 - John Baum, Swiss national team coach
- 1974 - Tom Bernhardt, minor league outfielder
- 1974 - Braden Looper, pitcher
- 1974 - Roman Yatsyuk, Extraliga pitcher
- 1975 - Dave Kaval, executive
- 1976 - Todd Moser, minor league pitcher
- 1977 - Chin-Feng Chen, outfielder
- 1979 - Bobby Cramer, pitcher
- 1979 - Xiaofan Lin, China Baseball League outfielder
- 1981 - Nate McLouth, outfielder; All-Star
- 1981 - Kazunori Tanaka, NPB outfielder
- 1982 - Jeremy Bonderman, pitcher
- 1982 - Kuan-Sen Fang, CPBL pitcher
- 1982 - Derek Griffith, minor league pitcher
- 1982 - Anthony Lerew, pitcher
- 1982 - Takehiko Oshimoto, NPB pitcher
- 1983 - Esmailin Caridad, pitcher
- 1983 - Angel Garcia, minor league pitcher
- 1983 - Donell Linares, minor league infielder
- 1984 - Blair Erickson, minor league pitcher
- 1985 - Hideki Sunaga, NPB pitcher
- 1986 - Roque Mercedes, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Josh Thole, catcher
- 1987 - Casey Lawrence, pitcher
- 1988 - Michael Johnson, minor league infielder and manager
- 1988 - Corban Joseph, infielder
- 1989 - Tyler Bream, minor league infielder
- 1989 - Mami Kuroiwa, Japanese women's national team catcher
- 1990 - Justin Hancock, pitcher
- 1991 - Daniel Palka, outfielder
- 1991 - Joel Pulgar, Bolivian national team infielder
- 1992 - Juan Corpas, minor league pitcher
- 1993 - Jecksson Flores, minor league infielder
- 1994 - Billy Germaine, minor league catcher
- 1994 - Brauly Mejia, minor league outfielder
- 1994 - Ugueth Urbina Jr., minor league pitcher
- 1996 - Kuan-Wei Chen, CPBL pitcher
- 1996 - Willie MacIver, minor league catcher
- 1996 - Ikaika Mahuka, American Samoa national team pitcher
- 1996 - Javier Salazar, minor league infielder
- 1996 - Jake Woodford, pitcher
- 1997 - Diego Castillo, infielder
- 1997 - Zack Thompson, pitcher
- 1998 - Hudson Potts, minor league infielder
- 1998 - Spencer Strider, pitcher; All-Star
- 2000 - Yoannet Domínguez, Cuban women's national team pitcher
- 2001 - Rohan Shah, Pakistani national team outfielder
- 2005 - Julia Konigshofer, Canadian women's national team pitcher-infielder
Deaths[edit]
- 1879 - Jimmy Hallinan, infielder (b. 1849)
- 1904 - Sam Field, catcher (b. 1848)
- 1907 - Ted Kennedy, pitcher (b. 1865)
- 1911 - George Taylor, outfielder, manager (b. 1853)
- 1925 - Willy Wilson, pitcher (b. 1885)
- 1929 - String Bean Williams, pitcher (b. 1873)
- 1937 - Gus Shallix, pitcher (b. 1858)
- 1937 - Jesse Whiting, pitcher (b. 1879)
- 1942 - Dan Coogan, infielder (b. 1875)
- 1943 - Otto Briggs, outfielder, manager (b. 1891)
- 1948 - Roy Ellam, infielder (b. 1886)
- 1952 - Bob Lawson, pitcher (b. 1876)
- 1964 - Buck Bailey, college coach (b. 1896)
- 1965 - Walter Barbare, infielder (b. 1891)
- 1968 - Bullet Campbell, pitcher (b. 1896)
- 1969 - Dave Callahan, outfielder (b. 1888)
- 1969 - Joe Rullo, infielder (b. 1916)
- 1970 - Wedo Martini, pitcher (b. 1913)
- 1974 - Eleanor Callow, AAGPBL outfielder (b. 1927)
- 1974 - George Wilson, outfielder (b. 1924)
- 1977 - Ralph Cleage, outfielder (b. 1898)
- 1979 - Mel Ingram, pinch runner (b. 1904)
- 1983 - Ray Sanders, infielder (b. 1916)
- 1987 - Pete McClanahan, pinch hitter (b. 1906)
- 1988 - Dave Tyriver, pitcher (b. 1937)
- 1993 - Cal Koonce, pitcher (b. 1940)
- 1993 - Bob Seeds, outfielder (b. 1907)
- 1996 - Joe Samuels, pitcher (b. 1905)
- 2000 - Shui-Chuan Fang, Taiwan national team pitcher and manager; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1930)
- 2003 - George Wehmeyer, minor league infielder (b. 1927)
- 2011 - Ricky Adams, infielder (b. 1959)
- 2011 - Eddie Lyons, college coach (b. 1926)
- 2020 - Max Dobson, college coach (b. 1939)
- 2021 - Cecil Perkins, pitcher (b. 1940)
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