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Events, births and deaths that occurred on April 14.

Events

• 1880 - The new Cincinnati Bank Street Grounds is opened with an exhibition game between the Cincinnati Red Stockings and the visiting Washington Nationals. The park seats 3,490 and will serve professional teams in three leagues: the National League this year, the American Associaton in 1882 and 1883, and the Union Association in 1884.
• 1903 - Ed Delahanty, one of five major league brothers, and the greatest natural hitter of his time, rejoins the Washington Nationals in accordance with the baseball peace terms. A three-year contract with the New York Giants at $8,000 a season, signed during the winter, is canceled. The Nationals reimburse the Giants for the $3,000 advanced to Delahanty.
• 1910:
  • William Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. President to throw out a ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day. Attending the game in Washington, D.C., President Taft tosses the first ball to future Hall of Famer Walter Johnson, who pitches the first of his 14 Opening Day Washington games, striking out nine, en route to a 3 - 0 one-hit shutout against Eddie Plank and the Philadelphia Athletics. A double by Frank Baker - caused by right fielder Doc Gessler tripping over a fan who had spilled out of overflow seating - spoils Johnson's chance at an opening day no-hitter. Gabby Street is the Senators' catcher, the only opener in which he catches for Johnson.
  • Frank Smith pitches a one-hitter in the season opener to give the Chicago White Sox a 3 - 0 victory against the St. Louis Browns. Ray Demmitt's single is the only hit for St. Louis. By season's end the American League will see 13 one-hitters - a league record.
  • Cincinnati Reds pitcher Fred Beebe fires a three-hitter in stopping the Chicago Cubs, 1 - 0, in ten innings. Wildfire Schulte has all three Chicago hits. Beebe was acquired in February from the Cardinals, along with Alan Storke, in exchange for Miller Huggins, Rebel Oakes, and Frank Corridon.
  • In the season opener before 25,000 at New York's Hilltop Park, the Boston Red Sox sport laced collars, the last major league team to wear a collar. Boston sends the New York Highlanders into extra innings before the game is called at the end of 14 innings with the score, 4 - 4. Ed Cicotte starts for Boston, with Joe Wood relieving in the 8th inning. Hippo Vaughn goes all the way for New York, retiring Boston batters in the 4th and 12th innings on four pitches. He needs just three pitches in the 10th.
  • Red Ames of the New York Giants pitches hitless ball for six innings but loses to the Boston Doves, 3 - 2, in 11 innings. Chick Evans, in relief of Al Mattern, is the winning pitcher.
• 1911 - Cleveland Naps star pitcher Addie Joss dies unexpectedly in Toledo, Ohio, from meningitis at the age of 31. Beset with arm injuries, Joss made just 13 appearances last season, but his 160 wins and ERA of 1.88, compiled in nine seasons, will earn him a plaque at Cooperstown in 1978.
• 1915 - In the opening game at Shibe Park, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Herb Pennock shuts out the Boston Red Sox, 5 - 0. Pennock gives up only one hit, a scratch single by Harry Hooper with two outs in the 9th inning.
• 1917 - Ed Cicotte of the Chicago White Sox pitches an 11 - 0 no-hitter against the St. Louis Browns.
• 1925
  • In the first regular-season Chicago Cubs game to be broadcast on the radio, Quin Ryan announces the contest from the grandstand roof for WGN. Grover Alexander wins for the Cubs, 8 - 2, over the Pirates and helps himself with a single, double, and home run.
  • The Cleveland Indians open the season with a 21 - 14 victory over the St. Louis Browns. The Indians score 12 runs in the 8th inning when the Browns make five errors. Browns first baseman George Sisler has four errors in the game, and the Indians' 21 runs set a major league record for the most runs scored by one club on Opening Day.
  • Two future Hall of Famers make their major league debuts with the Philadelphia Athletics in the same game. Lefty Grove starts against the Boston Red Sox and leaves in the 4th inning after walking four and striking out nobody. He gives up five runs on six hits. In the 8th inning, Mickey Cochrane pinch-hits a single, while the Athletics go on to score nine runs in the last four innings to win, 9 - 8, in ten innings. Grove, known as Groves in Baltimore, is also listed that way in the New York Times box score. Grove will become the first pitcher to lead the American League in strikeouts and walks in the same year.
• 1931 - At Braves Field, Jack Quinn of the Brooklyn Robins becomes the oldest pitcher to start an Opening Day game. The 47-year-old Pennsylvanian gets tagged with the lost as the Boston Braves beats Brooklyn, 7 - 4.
• 1955 - Elston Howard becomes the first black player in New York Yankees history. The 26-year-old catcher/outfielder makes his debut against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park as he hits a single with one RBI in the Yankees' 8 - 4 loss.
• 1960:
  • Roberto Clemente celebrates opening day with a 410-footer followed by a 445-footer. Unfortunately, this is Forbes Field, so neither of the long drives leaves the park. According to the Uniontown Evening Standard: "Clemente starched the ball all four times he was at the plate... In the 2nd inning Clemente lined a shot off the wall at the 406 mark. In the 5th he lashed a drive to the deepest part of centerfield ..." The latter shot is characterized by Pirates beat writer Les Biederman as "one of the longest outs possible at Forbes Field. He chased Vada Pinson to the batting cage in deep center with three on for his 445-foot fly ball that turned into a sacrifice fly."
  • Eddie Sawyer resigns as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies just one day into the new season. Sawyer, the manager of the National League champion "Whiz Kids" of 1950, is replaced with Gene Mauch, who begins a 26-year managing career in the major leagues.
• 1961 - The "new" Washington Senators franchise wins its first game, defeating the Cleveland Indians, 3 - 2. Pitcher Joe McClain earns the victory for the Senators, one of two new expansion teams in the American League. The "old" Washington Senators moved to Minnesota after the 1960 season.
• 1964 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax throws his ninth complete game without allowing a walk as he beats the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 - 0, in his only career start on Opening Day.
• 1967 - Boston Red Sox rookie pitcher Billy Rohr makes a memorable debut by no-hitting the New York Yankees for eight and two-thirds innings. Elston Howard spoils Rohr's masterpiece with a two-out single in the 9th, but the Red Sox still win, 3 - 0. Despite his impressive debut, Rohr will win only two more games in his major league career.
• 1968:
  • Jim Bunning wins his first game for the Pittsburgh Pirates, a 3 - 0 shutout over the Dodgers. For Bunning, it is his 40th career shutout and includes his 1,000th National League strikeout, becoming the first pitcher since Cy Young to reach the 1,000 mark in both the National and American Leagues. In the game, right fielder Roberto Clemente robs Ron Fairly of a game-tying two-run homer.
  • At the Astrodome, New York Mets pitcher Nolan Ryan earns the first of his 324 major league victories. The 21-year-old right-hander hurls 6 2/3 innings of three-hit, shutout baseball to lead the Mets over the Houston Astros, 4 - 0. Danny Frisella takes the save in 2 1/3 innings of relief. Tommie Agee goes 2 for 3 with two runs and Art Shamsky 2 for 3 with two RBI. Larry Dierker is the losing pitcher.
• 1969 - The expansion Montreal Expos host their first game north of the border, marking the first time a regular-season major league game is played outside of the United States. The Expos win their debut at Jarry Park, edging the St. Louis Cardinals, 8 - 7. Mack Jones hits a three-run home run and two-run triple and Dan McGinn takes the win in 5 1/3 innings of relief. Jones' blast is also the first major league home run hit outside the United States, while light-hitting Dal Maxvill hits a grand slam for the losers.
• 1976 - In the 6th inning of today's 6 - 5 loss to Chicago, the Mets' Dave Kingman hits what will become widely regarded as the longest home run ever hit in Wrigley Field, estimated at 600 feet in many of the next day's press accounts, with the putative "paper of record" going as high as 630. Some cold water is applied to these claims by longtime Cubs' broadcaster Jack Brickhouse, speaking in 1982 with Paul Susman of Baseball Digest: "Brickhouse revealed that the ball was greatly helped by a strong wind of about 35 miles per hour. Brickhouse estimated Kingman's blast in reality went about 500 feet." To be fair to Kingman, the Cubs' own scoresheet for this game estimates "530 to 550 feet," which in conjunction with researcher Bill Jenkinson's assertion of 530 feet as the distance between home plate and the point of obstruction, would suggest a typo or simple misreading as the culprit in the inflated Times estimate.
• 1990:
  • Starter Bret Saberhagen gets the win and reliever Mark Davis earns the save as Kansas City beats Toronto, 3 - 1. It is the first time ever that two reigning Cy Young Award winners have figured in the same victory.
  • Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles begins a streak which leads to a major league record for the most errorless games (95) and total chances (431) by a shortstop.
• 1991 - Nolan Ryan becomes the 12th pitcher in major league history to surpass 5,000 innings pitched and gets plenty of hitting help as Texas whips Baltimore, 15 - 3.
• 1993:
  • After establishing the all-time career major league record last night with his 358th save, St. Louis Cardinals reliever Lee Smith breaks the National League mark recording his 301st save in the senior circuit.
  • The first-ever Australian battery comes from the Milwaukee Brewers. Left-handed pitcher Graeme Lloyd and catcher Dave Nilsson, who make up half of the total number of Australian players to ever make the major leagues to that point, make history in the Brewers' 12 - 2 loss to the California Angels.
• 1998 - Mark McGwire hits three home runs, breaking an eight-game homerless drought, to help the Cardinals to a 15 - 5 victory over Arizona. After tying Willie Mays' major league record by homering in the first four games of the season, McGwire had not homered since April 4th.
• 1999:
  • John Franco strikes out the side in the 9th inning of the New York Mets' 4 - 1 win over the Florida Marlins, becoming the second relief pitcher in major league history to reach 400 career saves.
  • Jose Canseco becomes the 28th player in major league history to reach the 400 home run plateau. Canseco hits a 386-foot shot in the 3rd inning of Tampa Bay's 7 - 6 loss to the Blue Jays.
• 2001:
  • By scoring in their 175th consecutive game, the Cincinnati Reds set a modern National League record for not being shut out by an opponent. Coincidentally, to break the record, Cincinnati beats Al Leiter and the New York Mets, 1 - 0, the last pitcher and team to shut out the franchise.
  • A total eleven one-run games (six in American League and five in National League) breaks a record set on May 30, 1967 when there were a combined ten one-run contests in the major leagues.
• 2004 - A day after Yankees teammate Mike Mussina earned his 200th career victory, Kevin Brown reaches the same plateau, beating the Devil Rays, 5 - 1. It is the first time in major league history members of the same pitching staff have won their 200th career victory in consecutive starts.
• 2005 - On a historic night at RFK Stadium, Livan Hernandez and Vinny Castilla are up to the task. Hernandez carries a one-hitter into the 9th inning and Castilla falls a single shy of the cycle as the Washington Nationals post a 5 - 3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first major league game in Washington, D.C. in over 33 years. After beginning their first season in the nation's capital with a nine-game road trip, the Nationals start the first game at RFK Stadium since the departure of the Washington Senators with former pitcher Joe Grzenda handing a ball to U.S. President George W. Bush, who throws the ceremonial first pitch. Grzenda tossed the final pitch in Senators history against the Yankees on September 30, 1971.
• 2007 - Junior Oberto of Grosseto throws the fifth perfect game in Serie A1 history, beating San Marino, 6 - 0, and striking out nine.
• 2008:
  • Alex Rodriguez moves up to a tie for 15th on the all-time major league home run leader list, even with Ted Williams and Willie McCovey. Rodriguez hits his 521st career homer as part of a 4-for-5 day; Andy Sonnanstine allows the shot. The Yankees top the Rays, 8 - 7.
  • Nate McLouth continues his stellar start to the season. With the Pirates down, 4 - 3, with two outs in the 9th, he cracks a three-run homer off Dodgers closer Takashi Saito to give the game to Pittsburgh.
• 2009 - In a 6 - 1 Reds win over the Brewers, David Weathers retires both batters he faces. It is his 900th game in the majors, the 20th player to reach the milestone.
• 2010:
  • A judge in Dayton, OH waives a 30-day jail sentence which had been given to former minor league pitcher Julio Castillo for throwing a baseball into the stands and injuring a fan during an on-field brawl at a Dayton Dragons game in 2008. While he avoids prison time, Castillo's prospects in organized baseball are now dim, as his conviction for assault still stands and he is ordered to leave the United States and stay away for three years.
  • The Orioles place closer Mike Gonzalez on the disabled list, retroactive to April 10th, after he struggled to an 0-2 record with an ERA of 18.00 in the season's first week. Also going on the DL are Angels closer Brian Fuentes, who has a strained back he injured while lifting weights, and Arizona catcher Miguel Montero, who needs to undergo surgery for a torn meniscus in his right knee, injured while attempting to avoid a tag from Pittsburgh's Zach Duke four days ago. But the biggest blow of all is to the Phillies, who place starting shortstop Jimmy Rollins on the list with a calf injury.
• 2011:
  • Cliff Lee does his best Roy Halladay impression in shutting out the Nationals, 4 - 0, with a twelve-strikeout, three-hit performance; Halladay hurled a complete game victory over the Nats yesterday. Carlos Ruiz gives Lee the only run he needs when he leads off the 6th with a home run; Washington starter Jordan Zimmermann had set down the first 15 Phillies batters in order until that blast.
  • The Rockies complete a four-game sweep of the Mets by taking both ends of a doubleheader at Citi Field, 5 - 4 and 9 - 4. Troy Tulowitzki leads Colorado's offense by homering in all four games and going 10 for 16 with 8 RBI in the series.
  • The Twins place Joe Mauer on the disabled list with weakness in his leg, apparently a consequence of the knee surgery he underwent following the 2010 season. Drew Butera and Steve Holm will vainly attempt to fill the All-Star catcher's shoes in his absence.
  • At a news conference in which he announces that P Pedro Feliciano is lost for the season because of impending shoulder surgery, Yankees GM Brian Cashman lashes out at former manager Joe Torre for his handling of pitchers. He blames Torre for chronically overusing relievers such as Scott Proctor, thereby ruining their careers. Feliciano led the National League in games pitched three consecutive years while with the New York Mets prior to joining the Yankees, although Torre had nothing to do with that.
  • It is Opening Day in the Italian Baseball League. In a strong pitching matchup, Jesus Matos and Victor Moreno of Unipol Bologna outduel Jesus Silva and Justin Cicatello of Cariparma Parma, 2 - 1. The contest is a rematch of last year's Italian Series, won by Parma. Livinston Santaniello triples, scores one and drives in another to lead the Bologna offense.
• 2012:
  • The Dodgers have the best record in the majors at 8-1 after beating the Padres, 6 - 1. Matt Kemp hits a pair of two-run homers and Andre Ethier also goes deep, in support of Ted Lilly who is a winner in his first start of the year; Joe Wieland is charged with the loss in his major league debut.
  • The Indians beat the Royals, 11 - 9, in a wild ten-inning game. Benches clear in the 3rd inning after Kansas City's Jonathan Sanchez plunks Shin-Soo Choo, and again in the bottom of the frame when Jeanmar Gomez hits Mike Moustakas. Gomez is immediately ejected by home plate umpire Gary Darling, as are Indians manager Manny Acta and 3B Jack Hannahan, the first player to join the fray. The Indians then proceed to blow a 9 - 2 lead, with the Royals scrapping runs here and there until Yuniesky Betancourt ties the game with a solo homer off Vinnie Pestano in the 8th. Choo hits a two-run double in the 10th to give Cleveland its margin of victory. For his part, Gomez will receive a five-game suspension for deliberately throwing at Moustakas, and will be fined $500, as Acta and Hannahan will also be.
• 2013:
  • The Chicago Cubs and the City of Chicago, IL agree on renovations to Wrigley Field that will cost $500 million. An electronic video scoreboard will be installed in left field, and the number of night games allowed at the historic facility will be increased. No public funds will go towards the renovations, although owner Tom Ricketts will be allowed to develop property near the ballpark to create additional revenue streams.
  • The Braves complete a three-game sweep of the Nationals with a 9 - 0 shutout, improving their record to a major league best 11-1. Paul Maholm pitches 7 2/3 scoreless innings, while Justin Upton hits his seventh homer, tops in the majors.
• 2014:
  • Dan Uggla hits two homers, including a 9th-inning grand slam, to lead the Braves to a 9 - 6 win over the Phillies. In the 8th, Uggla combines with Evan Gattis and Andrelton Simmons for three consecutive homers to put the Braves ahead, 5 - 1, but the Phillies score five runs in the bottom of the inning, capped by a three-run blast by Domonic Brown, to set the stage for Uggla's game-deciding blast.
  • The Pirates and Reds go on a homer binge at Great American Ballpark, hitting ten long balls into the rain before the game is suspended after six innings with the score tied at 7. The ten homers are the most ever hit in a single game at the ballpark, and the most in any big league game since 2006. Neil Walker and Gaby Sanchez go back-to-back twice for Pittsburgh, only the second time this has happened in team history, and Starling Marte and Travis Snider also pull the trick, making it only the third time that a team has hit three pairs of consecutive home runs in one game. When the game resumes a day later, no more homers are hit, as Pittsburgh wins, 8 - 7, with Russell Martin's 7th-inning single driving home Andrew McCutchen for the winning run.
• 2016:
  • Bryce Harper makes the 100th home run of his career his first-ever grand slam as the Nationals hand the Braves their ninth straight loss since the start of the season, 6 - 2. At 23 years and 181 days, Harper is the eighth youngest player to hit 100 homers.
  • There are two great pitching efforts today. Vince Velasquez strikes out 16 batters and pitches a three-hitter and leading the Phillies over the Padres, 3 - 0. The Padres have already been shut out an unprecedented five times in ten games this season.
  • Jaime Garcia of the Cardinals does not fan quite as many, but he pitches a one-hit shutout to defeat the Brewers, 7 - 0. Still, he strikes out a career-high 13 opponents as Domingo Santana has Milwaukee's lone hit, a single in the 6th.
• 2017:
  • The Braves open their new ballpark, SunTrust Park, with a 5 - 2 win over the Padres before a sellout crowd of 41,149. Ender Inciarte has the first hit and scores the first run in the 1st inning, and hits the first homer at the new park in the 6th. The Braves' centerfielder already has three homers this year, matching his output for all of 2016.
  • The White Sox start an outfield composed of three players named Garcia: Avisail in right, Leury in center and Willy, making his major league debut, in left. The three are unrelated and it marks the first time a major league team has three outfielders with the same last name in its starting line-up, a quirk caused by Melky Cabrera going on paternity leave before the game. However, it's P Dylan Covey, also making his debut, who steals the show, with one run allowed in 5 1/3 innings as the Sox defeat the Twins, 2 - 1.
• 2018 - The Braves experience a bullpen meltdown for the ages against the Cubs as they blow a 10 - 5 lead in the 8th, after being ahead 9 - 1 and 10 - 2 earlier in the game. Chicago manages to score nine runs on just three hits to win the game, 14 - 10; worse, all nine runs score after two outs. Temperatures at the start of the game at Wrigley Field are at 38 degrees with a 24 mph wind, but it gets steadily colder and the wind grows stronger as the game progresses, making for very uncomfortable playing conditions. Jason Heyward leads off the fateful inning by being hit with a Luke Jackson pitch and pinch-hitter Tommy La Stella adds a single after one out; Jose Ramirez strikes out Efren Navarro for the second out, but then the roof caves in as he plunks Kris Bryant to load the bases and an infield hit and a walk push across a couple of runs. Javier Baez then clears the bases with a double that ties the game, but after an intentional walk to Addison Russell, Sam Freeman walks Heyward to load the bases again, and walks the next two batters to bring in two more scores. Peter Moylan comes in next, but he uncorks a wild pitch scoring run number eight, and a final runner crosses the plate on a throwing error by C Kurt Suzuki.
• 2019:
  • German Marquez throws the first complete game in the majors this season as he twirls a one-hitter to lead the Rockies to a 4 - 0 win over the Giants, snapping his team's eight-game losing streak. Evan Longoria has the only hit against him, a single with one out in the 8th. Nolan Arenado hits a three-run homer to lead the offense, his first long ball of the year.
  • Misja Harcksen throws the third perfect game in Hoofdklasse history, 22 years after Eelco Jansen had last done the feat. He blanks his former teammates, the Oosterhout Twins, with ten whiffs and 97 pitches, as Neptunus wins, 4 - 0.
• 2021:
  • Carlos Rodon of the White Sox throws the second no-hitter of the season, blanking the Indians, 8 - 0. It comes only five days after the most recent no-hitter, tossed by Joe Musgrove on April 9th. The only baserunner is Roberto Pérez, who reaches via a hit-by-pitch with one out in the 9th.
  • At MLB's request, the Atlantic League, which is now officially a partner league, will test two important changes to the rules this season. First, the designated hitter will be tied to the starting pitcher, its use being discontinued as soon as the starter leaves the game, with the aim of discouraging the use of openers and pushing starting pitchers to go deeper in the game, while injecting an extra dose of strategy into the late innings. The second will be to move back the pitcher's rubber by 12 inches, in order to cut down on strikeouts.
• 2023:
  • The Rays' season-opening streak of 13 straight wins ends with a 6 - 3 loss at the hands of the Blue Jays. In the game, Toronto's George Springer hits a lead-off homer off Drew Rasmussen in the bottom of the 1st, tying him for third on the all-time list with Craig Biggio, just one behind #2 man Alfonso Soriano. Bo Bichette goes 5 for 5, including the 500th hit of his career, making him the quickest Jays player to the mark, after 407 games, well ahead of previous record holders Vernon Wells and Shannon Stewart, who had both needed 432 games.
  • The Mets defeat the Athletics, 17 - 6, in a game dominated by the team record 17 walks they draw. The Mets score five runs on six walks and just one hit in the 2nd inning, and then six more runs in the 5th, this time on five walks, two hit batsmen and one hit. The rout takes place in spite of the A's outhitting the Mets, 13-11. Francisco Lindor is the offensive star, with 7 RBIs, including a grand slam off James Kaprielian in the 2nd.

Births

• 1863 - Parson Nicholson, infielder (d. 1917)
• 1867 - Dan Cotter, pitcher (d. 1935)
• 1870 - Tom Niland, outfielder (d. 1950)
• 1880 - George Merritt, outfielder (d. 1938)
• 1881 - Jack Bracken, pitcher (d. 1954)
• 1882 - John Barthold, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1884 - Wild Bill Luhrsen, pitcher (d. 1973)
• 1885 - J. Fred Bohler, college coach (d. 1960)
• 1886 - Herman Young, infielder (d. 1966)
• 1898 - Jess Doyle, pitcher (d. 1961)
• 1904 - George Ferrell, scout (d. 1987)
• 1905 - Tom Richardson, pitcher (d. ????)
• 1908 - Don Pelham, outfielder (d. 1981)
• 1909 - Alton Biggs, minor league infielder and manager (d. ????)
• 1909 - Jerry Nason, writer (d. 1986)
• 1913 - Eduardo Orvañanos, writer (d. 2001)
• 1913 - Jack Radtke, infielder (d. 2006)
• 1914 - Masao Yoshida, amateur pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1996)
• 1916 - Johnny Hutchings, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1916 - Jerry Lynn, infielder (d. 1972)
• 1917 - Marvin Miller, union official; Hall of Fame (d. 2012)
• 1922 - Alonzo Perry, pitcher (d. 1982)
• 1924 - Salty Saltwell, General Manager (d. 2020)
• 1925 - Paul Fouts, minor league infielder and manager
• 1926 - Gordie Gillespie, college coach (d. 2015)
• 1926 - Katsunari Miyai, Japanese national team manager (d. 2020)
• 1927 - Dick Clegg, college coach (d. 2017)
• 1927 - Don Mueller, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2011)
• 1928 - Herb Adams, outfielder (d. 2012)
• 1931 - Don Minnick, pitcher (d. 2016)
• 1931 - Kal Segrist, infielder
• 1935 - Lefty Hayden, pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1935 - Katie Horstman, AAGPBL player
• 1935 - Marty Keough, outfielder
• 1941 - Frank Cipriani, outfielder (d. 2022)
• 1941 - Pete Rose, infielder, manager; All-Star
• 1944 - Frank Bertaina, pitcher (d. 2010)
• 1947 - Joe Lahoud, outfielder
• 1949 - Satoru Yoshioka, NPB infielder
• 1953 - Mark Bomback, pitcher
• 1954 - Craig Mitchell, pitcher
• 1954 - Casey Parsons, outfielder
• 1955 - Chris Welsh, pitcher
• 1956 - Bobby Sprowl, pitcher
• 1960 - Paul Hodgson, outfielder
• 1961 - Jay Aldrich, pitcher
• 1964 - Kimihiro Sato, Japanese national team infielder
• 1966 - David Justice, outfielder; All-Star
• 1966 - Greg Maddux, pitcher; All-Star; Hall of Fame
• 1966 - Greg Myers, catcher
• 1966 - Boi Rodriguez, minor league and NPB infielder-outfielder
• 1967 - Mike Miller, minor league pitcher
• 1967 - Mike Trombley, pitcher
• 1968 - Jesse Levis, catcher
• 1969 - Brad Ausmus, catcher, manager; All-Star
• 1969 - Brad Pennington, pitcher
• 1969 - Chris Myers, minor league pitcher
• 1970 - Steve Avery, pitcher; All-Star
• 1971 - Konstantinos Davlos, Greek national team outfielder
• 1971 - Carlos Perez, pitcher; All-Star
• 1971 - Gregg Zaun, catcher
• 1972 - Jason Falcon, minor league pitcher and college coach
• 1972 - Roberto Mejia, infielder
• 1974 - Roberto Ederra, Division Honor catcher
• 1974 - Min Ren, China Baseball League catcher
• 1976 - Kyle Farnsworth, pitcher
• 1976 - Eric Heise, minor league infielder
• 1976 - Paul Hoover, catcher
• 1976 - Jeromy Palki, minor league pitcher
• 1977 - Taichiro Kamisaka, NPB infielder
• 1979 - Sidney de Jong, Hoofdklasse catcher and manager
• 1980 - John Van Benschoten, pitcher
• 1981 - Seth Buckminster, umpire
• 1981 - Manabu Iwadate, NPB infielder
• 1981 - Aaron MacKenzie, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - John Poppert, minor league catcher
• 1982 - Josh Whitesell, infielder
• 1983 - Jeff Fiorentino, outfielder
• 1983 - Adam Russell, pitcher
• 1984 - Chao-Ping Chen, Taiwan national team infielder
• 1984 - Chris Leroux, pitcher
• 1984 - Moises Robles, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Lukáš Borecký, Extraliga infielder
• 1986 - Cory Gearrin, pitcher
• 1986 - Martin Sotelo, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Chase Huchingson, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Samuel Taveras, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Jacob Barnes, pitcher
• 1991 - Linde Gerritsen, Dutch women's national team pitcher
• 1992 - Aaron Barbosa, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Tamás Radványi, Hungarian national team outfielder
• 1992 - Aneury Tavárez, minor league outfielder
• 1993 - Sang-hyun Chae, KBO outfielder
• 1993 - Brandon Finnegan, pitcher
• 1994 - Daniil Khomyakov, Russian national team catcher
• 1998 - Pei Liang, minor league infielder
• 1999 - Igor Kimura, minor league pitcher

Deaths

• 1891 - Frank Bell, catcher (b. 1862)
• 1898 - Jiggs Parrott, infielder (b. 1871)
• 1901 - Pat Sullivan, infielder (b. 1861)
• 1904 - Hugo Helburn, umpire (b. 1865)
• 1911 - Addie Joss, pitcher; Hall of Famer (b. 1880)
• 1922 - Cap Anson, infielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1852)
• 1923 - Jack Fox, outfielder (b. 1880)
• 1926 - Eddie Fusselback, catcher (b. 1856)
• 1928 - Peter Mullen, umpire (b. 1860)
• 1935 - Doc Martin, pitcher (b. 1887)
• 1936 - Dan Lally, outfielder (b. 1867)
• 1937 - Ned Hanlon, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1857)
• 1951 - Danny Moeller, outfielder (b. 1885)
• 1953 - Granville Lyons, infielder (b. 1908)
• 1953 - Roy Patterson, pitcher (b. 1876)
• 1958 - John Freeman, outfielder (b. 1901)
• 1958 - Red Smyth, outfielder (b. 1893)
• 1959 - Frank Harter, pitcher (b. 1886)
• 1961 - Cy Falkenberg, pitcher (b. 1879)
• 1963 - Earl Kunz, pitcher (b. 1899)
• 1964 - Enos Kirkpatrick, infielder (b. 1884)
• 1968 - Al Benton, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1911)
• 1970 - Ed Crowley, infielder (b. 1906)
• 1970 - John Donaldson, outfielder (b. 1891)
• 1977 - Lionel Decuir, catcher (b. 1914)
• 1977 - Walter Krueger, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1893)
• 1978 - Joe Gordon, infielder, manager; All-Star; Hall of Famer (b. 1915)
• 1978 - Bill Leinhauser, outfielder (b. 1893)
• 1982 - Kermit Dial, infielder (b. 1908)
• 1986 - Doc Land, outfielder (b. 1903)
• 1988 - Ralph Winegarner, pitcher (b. 1909)
• 1989 - Carr Smith, outfielder (b. 1901)
• 1992 - Horacio Martinez, infielder; All-Star (b. 1912)
• 1993 - Jim McDonnell, catcher (b. 1922)
• 1996 - Clyde McNeal, infielder (b. 1928)
• 1997 - Gus Dugas, outfielder (b. 1907)
• 1997 - Frank Franchi, scout (b. 1936)
• 2000 - Bob Barthelson, pitcher (b. 1924)
• 2000 - Bo Wallace, catcher (b. 1929)
• 2003 - Al Epperly, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 2007 - [[Joe Driscoll], umpire (b. 1943)
• 2007 - Willis Enos, minor league outfielder (b. 1919)
• 2008 - Tommy Holmes, outfielder, manager; All-Star (b. 1917)
• 2008 - Don Cantrell, minor league pitcher (b. 1919)
• 2009 - Les Keiter, broadcaster (b. 1919)
• 2011 - Al Frioni, minor league pitcher (b. 1938)
• 2011 - Yewry Guillén, signed infielder (b. ~1992)
• 2012 - Steve Molinari, minor league outfielder (b. 1931)
• 2015 - Sandy Grady, writer (b. ????)
• 2016 - Jack Blaylock, coach (b. 1925)
• 2020 - Hank Steinbrenner, owner (b. 1957)