June 1
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on June 1.
Events[edit]
- 1906 - Women appear at the Polo Grounds ticket windows for the first time. Coincidentally, new ticket-selling machines are also introduced.
- 1910 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 10 - 5, before a chilly crowd of 800 fans at National League Park. It is the 14th loss for the Phillies in their last 15 games. The Cardinals are paced by leadoff hitter Miller Huggins, who has no official at bats in six plate appearances, the first time this has ever happened in major league history. Huggins walks in his first three at-bats, hits a sacrifice fly and a sacrifice bunt in the next two, and walks with the bases loaded in the 8th inning to drive in the lead run. At the end of the season, Huggins will lead the National League with 116 walks.
- 1917 - Hank Gowdy of the Boston Braves became the first major leaguer to enlist in World War I. Gowdy will also serve in World War II.
- 1918 - Losing 5 - 4 against the Yankees, the Chicago White Sox load the bases in the 9th inning with no outs. Chick Gandil lines a shot to third baseman Frank Baker, who turns it into a game-ending triple play.
- 1923 - Scoring in every inning, the New York Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies at the Baker Bowl, 22 - 8. It is the first time in 20th century a team has scored in every inning.
- 1925 - Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees pinch-hits for Pee Wee Wanninger, beginning his streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games. The next day, first baseman Wally Pipp shows up with the after-effects of a concussion, and Gehrig takes over.
- 1937 - Bill Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Browns in an 8 - 0 win.
- 1941 - Mel Ott hits a two-run home run, the 400th of his major league career and his 1,499th and 1,500th RBI, helping the New York Giants to a 3 - 2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
- 1943 - Rip Sewell of the Pittsburgh Pirates patents his "eephus" or "blooper ball" pitch, which travels as high as 25 feet above the ground before dropping into the strike zone. Sewell will use the pitch on his way to a twenty-win campaign.
- 1944 - Washington Senators outfielder Stan Spence goes 6 for 6 in an 11 - 5 win over the St. Louis Browns. Spence, who collects five singles and a home run, will finish the season with a .316 batting average and career highs in home runs (18) and runs batted in (100).
- 1951 - The Pittsburgh Pirates waive first baseman Dale Long to the St. Louis Browns, who send him to the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League. Long will be back in Pittsburgh for the 1955 season.
- 1954 - Montreal Royals outfielder Roberto Clemente is discovered by Pirates scout Clyde Sukeforth. Clemente is the Brooklyn Dodgers' five-tool farmhand. Sukeforth is not primarily a scout but rather the Pirates' pitching coach on special assignment in Richmond to scout newly-demoted Dodger hurler Joe Black. Unfortunately for the Dodgers, the first thing Sukeforth sees is Clemente. From this moment forward, despite Dodger GM Buzzie Bavasi's desperate manoeuvering, his prize prospect is lost. As Sukeforth himself will later tell Les Biederman of The Sporting News: "I saw Clemente and forgot all about Black. I arrived at the Richmond ball park just in time to see the pre-game workout. I saw Clemente throwing from the outfield and I couldn't take my eyes off him. Later in the game he was used as a pinch-hitter and I liked his swing. I started asking questions and learned he was a bonus player and would be eligible for the draft. Since the Pirates had first choice, I knew this would be our man. In fact, I told manager Max Macon to take good care of 'our boy' and see that he didn't get hurt."
- 1955 - Duke Snider hits three home runs at Ebbets Field, helping the Brooklyn Dodgers to an 11 - 8 victory over the Milwaukee Braves. The Dodgers also set a franchise record with six home runs.
- 1961 - Braves rookie Joe Torre rounds first base after getting a hit to right field in the 6th inning, but the Pirates' Roberto Clemente picks up the ball, fakes a throw to second and throws it so fast behind Torre at first base that he is caught and tagged out. "It was my most embarrassing moment on the field," he will later explain. The Pirates win, 8-2, in a game called in the 7th inning after a downpour.
- 1965 - Bob Veale of the Pittsburgh Pirates sets a franchise record by striking out 16 batters in the 4 - 0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. It is the 12th consecutive victory for Pittsburgh.
- 1968 - Joe Hoerner of the St. Louis Cardinals ties the National League record for most consecutive strikeouts by a relief pitcher. Horner strikes out the final six batters he faces and earns the win in a 6 - 5 victory over the New York Mets.
- 1975 - The California Angels' Nolan Ryan's 100th career victory is a memorable one as he beats the Baltimore Orioles, 1 - 0, and ties Sandy Koufax's big league mark by pitching his fourth no-hitter.
- 1977 - Ruppert Jones of the Seattle Mariners hits a home run off Dennis Eckersley in the 5th inning to snap Eckersley's no-hit string of 22 1/3 innings, just two outs short of the major league record set by Cy Young. The Indians beat Seattle, 7 - 1.
- 1978 - Senior righthander Kevin Mendon of Emporia State University throws the first nine-inning no-hitter in the history of the NAIA College World Series. Facing elimination, Emporia State beats Missouri Southern State College, 2 - 0, in the fourth round of the 1978 NAIA College World Series, and will go on to win the tournament against the same team in the title game two days from now.
- 1987 - Phil Niekro pitches the Cleveland Indians to a 9 - 6 victory, his 314th, over the Detroit Tigers. The win gives him and his brother, Joe, a major league record 530 combined victories, surpassing the mark set by the Perry brothers, Gaylord and Jim.
- 1992 - Devon White of the Toronto Blue Jays becomes just the sixth player in major league history to hit both a leadoff home run and an extra-inning homer in the same game. He also became the 56th switch-hitter in the majors to homer from both sides of the plate in the same game. Toronto defeats the Minnesota Twins, 5 - 3.
- 1995 - In the amateur draft, the California Angels select Darin Erstad with the first overall pick. He will sign for a $1.6 million bonus, the highest to date. Picking next, the San Diego Padres select Ben Davis, the Seattle Mariners pick Jose Cruz, Jr., and the Chicago Cubs follow with Kerry Wood.
- 1997 - At Dolphin Stadium, Colorado Rockies rookie pitcher John Thomson bats his first four major league hits, collects three RBI, and earns his first win, 9 - 2, over the Florida Marlins.
- 2000:
- Tomo Ohka of the Pawtucket Red Sox becomes the third pitcher in the 117-year history of the International League to throw a nine-inning perfect game when he beats the Charlotte Knights, 2 - 0.
- As owners struggle over the question of realignment, the Players Association suggests a simpler plan which only moves the Houston Astros from the NL Central to the AL West, thus creating two 15-team leagues. The owners' ideas would have the newest franchises, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks, switch leagues, the elimination of the National League wild card, and the AL Central consisting of six teams to go along with six divisions with only four teams - four of them in the NL. In the end, the status quo will prevail, but the Players Association's plan will eventually be implemented in 2013.
- 2001 - At Yankee Stadium, Cleveland defeats New York in just five and a half innings, when the game is called because of rain with Cleveland ahead, 7 - 2. In a rarity, Cleveland starter C.C. Sabathia earns a win despite pitching only four innings. Relief pitcher Ricardo Rincón gets the save for retiring the side in the 5th inning. The rules state that in a five-inning game, a starter need not go the full five innings to earn a victory. There have just been five other cases since 1978 to match Sabathia's feat.
- 2005 - Miguel Tejada hits a home run, three doubles and scores three runs to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 9 - 3 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
- 2007 - Phillip Wellman, manager of the Mississippi Braves, becomes the focus of national press coverage and internet discussion when he throws an epic tirade against an umpire.
- 2009 - The Yankees play their 18th straight game without an error, breaking the record held by the 2006 Boston Red Sox.
- 2010:
- Illinois Wesleyan University wins its first national title, topping SUNY Cortland, 17 - 5, in the finale of the Division III College World Series. They finished the regular season only 19-19 and dropped 21 games overall during the campaign, a record for any college national titlist.
- Bob Watson, Major League Baseball vice-president in charge of discipline, issues a rare blame directed at an umpire regarding an ejection. Watson states that pitcher Roy Oswalt will face no further action following his ejection from a game on May 31st, but that umpire Bill Hohn "would be addressed in a stern way". Oswalt had yelled at himself in disgust after throwing a ball in the 3rd inning and was immediately tossed by Hohn.
- Victor Martinez goes 5 for 5 with four doubles in Boston's 9 - 4 win over Oakland. He ties the major league record for doubles in a game by a catcher, set by Sandy Alomar in 1997.
- Tampa Bay scores four runs in the 9th inning on only one hit - a bases-loaded double by Sean Rodriguez - to beat Toronto, 7 - 6. Jays closer Kevin Gregg issues five walks and throws a wild pitch in the inning, then is ejected by umpire Angel Hernandez for complaining about his calls. His ouster follows shortly after that of Rays manager Joe Maddon, thrown out for disputing a third strike call on Carlos Pena earlier in the inning. The Jays come within an inch of tying the game in the bottom of the 9th, when a drive by Vernon Wells hits the top of the outfield fence but bounces back on the field.
- Scott Rolen hits two homers and a double and drives in four runs against his former team as Cincinnati defeats St. Louis, 9 - 8, in a wild game that leaves the Reds in sole possession of first place in the NL Central. Also swinging a hot bat is Joey Votto, who collects four hits including a homer, but Johnny Cueto blows leads of 3 - 0 and 7 - 3. It takes a sacrifice fly by Drew Stubbs against Blake Hawksworth in the 7th to decide the game in Cincinnati's favor.
- DOOR Neptunus's record winning streak in the Hoofdklasse ends at 23 games as Kinheim beats them, 10 - 9. Rafaël Jozefa hits a grand slam for the winners and Michiel van Kampen gets the victory while Kevin Heijstek takes the loss.
- 2011:
- After earning 15 wins before the All-Star break last year, the Rockies' Ubaldo Jimenez finally notches win number one this season with a 3 - 0 shutout of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Todd Helton homers in support of his four-hitter.
- Major League Baseball announces changes to the format of the World Baseball Classic for its 2013 edition. The tournament will be preceded by a 16-team qualifying tournament, to be held in the Fall of 2012. Taking part will be the four teams that failed to win a game in 2009 - Canada, Panama, Taiwan and South Africa - and 12 teams that have recently played in the Baseball World Cup, including Colombia and Nicaragua, who had been excluded from the first two editions of the WBC in spite of a solid tradition of international play. The four winners from the qualifying tournament will advance to the main event the following spring.
- The Blue Jays hit three triples in a row courtesy of Eric Thames, Rajai Davis and Jayson Nix in the 5th inning against Cleveland. No team had done that in the majors since the 1981 Expos.
- 2012:
- Johan Santana throws the first no-hitter in the 50-year history of the New York Mets when he defeats the Cardinals, 8 - 0. He walks five and needs 134 pitches to complete the game; he is helped by a great catch by Mike Baxter, who crashes into the fence at full speed and hurts himself in snagging Yadier Molina's line drive in the 7th. The Mets had played 8,120 games before their first no-hitter, while there had been 131 MLB no-hitters since they debuted.
- Alfredo Despaigne wins the Serie Nacional MVP for the third time in four years. He set a new home run record (36) in 2011-2012 and also led the league in both walks (91) and RBI (105). Vladimir García is named postseason MVP while Carlos Juan Viera takes home the Rookie of the Year Award. Despaigne joins Wilfredo Sánchez and Omar Linares as the only three-time Cuban MVPs of the Castro era; Martin Dihigo had won four back in the Cuban Winter League era.
- Tennessee Wesleyan College wins the NAIA College World Series for the school's first national title in any sport. They top Rogers State University, 10 - 6, in the finale. Trailing 6 - 2 after 3 innings, Tennessee Wesleyan hurlers allowed no further runs. They go ahead for good in the bottom of the 8th on a two-run single by Jake Stone and Taylor Oldham follows with a three-run homer.
- 2014 - It's a new month but some of May's brightest stars keep on shining as the Blue Jays shut out the Royals, 4 - 0. Mark Buehrle, who tosses eight scoreless innings, is the first major league pitcher to notch ten wins this season, while Edwin Encarnacion, who hit 16 homers in May, hits a two-run shot. Six of the 15 games played today end in shutouts, with Roenis Elias of the Mariners and Kyle Lohse of the Brewers throwing complete game whitewashes.
- 2015 - The Pirates win for the ninth time in 11 games thanks to help from one of their fans on the road. Playing the Giants at AT&T Park, the Bucs are up 4 - 3 in the 8th when Buster Posey lifts a fly ball towards foul territory in right field; RF Gregory Polanco goes out near the stands to attempt a catch, but, Steve Bartman-like, a fan wearing a Pirates cap and jersey reaches out and deflects the ball into the stands, accidentally hitting Polanco in the process. After a video review, umpire Doug Eddings calls Posey out on fan interference, ending the inning. Things don't end well for the fan, though, since he is ejected for interfering with a ball in play.
- 2016:
- Indians OF Marlon Byrd is suspended for 162 games following the second positive test for PEDs of his career. At 39, it marks the end of the former All-Star's career.
- Mookie Betts follows his three-homer game of the previous day by hitting home runs in his first two at-bats against the Orioles, giving him five home runs in seven at-bats. The Red Sox hit three other long balls in the game, including a pair by Chris Young, while the Orioles hit none, but Boston still goes down, 13 - 9.
- 2017 - The first-place Brewers defeat the struggling Mets, 2 - 1, behind a strong pitching performance by Chase Anderson who tosses seven scoreless innings. There is an unusual play in the 4th inning: with the bases loaded and one out, Milwaukee's Eric Sogard lifts a pop-up near the third base line. The Mets' batboy tries to get out of the way, taking his chair with him, but in doing so impedes 3B Wilmer Flores' path to the ball. Third base umpire Fieldin Culbreth first calls the batter out, but the umpires reverse themselves after conferring, as there is no provision in the rules for "batboy interference". Manager Terry Collins comes out to argue and is ejected, but he shouldn't have bothered, as Sogard then grounds into an inning-ending double play.
- 2018 - Pitcher Danny Farquhar returns to the mound only six weeks after suffering a life-threatening brain aneurysm on April 20th. Granted, he only throws the ceremonial first pitch for the White Sox before their game against the Brewers at Guaranteed Rate Field surrounded by his family and some of the staff from the RUSH University Medical Center, but his appearance is an important step in the recovery process. The entire team comes to the mound to witness the pitch, in support of their stricken comrade.
- 2021:
- The Orioles bring an end to a brutal 14-game losing streak with a 7 - 4 win over the Twins. Bruce Zimmermann, who had been the last Orioles pitcher to win a game back on May 16th, is the winning pitcher again. The O's also snap a 16-game losing streak against the Twins dating back to the 2018 season with the win, and snap out of a 2-21 funk following John Means' no-hitter over the Mariners on May 5th.
- The Olympic hopes end for three countries. Puerto Rico falls, 7 - 6, in ten innings to Nicaragua in the Americas Olympic Qualifier, as Benjamín Alegría doubles twice, scores twice and drives in a run while Norman St. Clair and Berman Espinoza turn in six shutout innings of relief. Venezuela walks it off to eliminate Colombia as Diego Rincones breaks a 2 - 2 tie in the bottom of the 9th with a solo shot off Carlos Ocampo. Canada eliminates Cuba, which will miss the Olympics for its first time as a medal event, 6 - 5, as John Axford (now working as a broadcaster) saves it for Dustin Molleken to overcome three runs by Roel Santos. In the other game, Team USA locks up a spot in the semifinals with an 8 - 6 win over the Dominican national team, Luke Williams hitting a big two-run triple. Nicaragua and the Dominicans will play tomorrow for the last semifinal spot to join the US, Canada and Venezuela.
- 2022 - In the second game of a doubleheader, Brendan Rodgers has the first multi-homer game of his career to lead the Rockies over the Marlins, 13 - 12 in a wild contest. Rodgers ends the game with a walk-off blast off Cole Sulser with a runner on second base, his third long ball of the game.
Births[edit]
- 1846 - Andy Leonard, outfielder (d. 1903)
- 1848 - William Johnson, infielder (d. 1909)
- 1863 - John Ewing, pitcher (d. 1895)
- 1866 - George Decker, infielder (d. 1909)
- 1869 - Ted Breitenstein, pitcher (d. 1935)
- 1869 - Bill Eagan, infielder (d. 1905)
- 1869 - Les German, pitcher (d. 1934)
- 1870 - Floyd Ritter, catcher (d. 1943)
- 1875 - J.C. Ewing, college coach (d. 1965)
- 1876 - Joe Kostal, pitcher (d. 1933)
- 1880 - Harry McChesney, outfielder (d. 1960)
- 1883 - John Castle, outfielder (d. 1929)
- 1885 - Jim Duggan, infielder (d. 1951)
- 1885 - Herm Malloy, pitcher (d. 1942)
- 1887 - Emmet Campbell, infielder (d. 1929)
- 1887 - Harry Gardner, pitcher (d. 1961)
- 1888 - Dixie Walker, pitcher (d. 1965)
- 1889 - Otto Miller, catcher (d. 1962)
- 1890 - George Harney, pitcher; manager (d. 1959)
- 1890 - Tom Long, outfielder (d. 1972)
- 1891 - Hank Severeid, catcher (d. 1968)
- 1891 - Homer Thompson, catcher (d. 1957)
- 1892 - Ty Tyson, outfielder (d. 1953)
- 1893 - Guy Morton, pitcher (d. 1934)
- 1893 - Eddie Palmer, infielder (d. 1983)
- 1896 - Johnny Mostil, outfielder (d. 1970)
- 1896 - William Webster, catcher (d. ????)
- 1898 - Duke Sedgwick, pitcher (d. 1982)
- 1899 - Al Niehaus, infielder (d. 1931)
- 1900 - Dutch Schesler, pitcher (d. 1953)
- 1901 - Lou Legett, catcher (d. 1988)
- 1901 - Fred Stiely, pitcher (d. 1981)
- 1909 - Jo-Jo White, outfielder, manager (d. 1986)
- 1911 - Lou Tost, pitcher (d. 1967)
- 1913 - Edward Jabb, minor league outfielder (d. 2008)
- 1915 - Bud Metheny, outfielder (d. 2003)
- 1917 - Ted Bonda, owner (d. 2005)
- 1917 - Vince Lloyd, broadcaster (d. 2003)
- 1918 - George Provens, infielder (d. 1982)
- 1919 - Ventura Escalante, Dominican national team pitcher (d. 1948)
- 1919 - Chang-Gun Xiao, Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 2013)
- 1920 - Charles Gary, infielder (d. 2011)
- 1925 - Chick DiCola, minor league infielder and manager (d. 2011)
- 1926 - Frank Finnegan, minor league outfielder (d. 2019)
- 1926 - Archie Hinton, pitcher (d. 1974)
- 1926 - John Jackson, Negro League pitcher (d. 2007)
- 1926 - Ray Moore, pitcher (d. 1995)
- 1927 - Sheng-Chiu Huang, Taiwan national team infielder (d. 1987)
- 1931 - Hal Smith, catcher; All-Star (d. 2014)
- 1931 - Chuck Weatherspoon, minor league outfielder (d. 2006)
- 1932 - Chuck Templeton, pitcher (d. 1997)
- 1935 - Hal Kolstad, pitcher
- 1935 - Jack Kralick, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2012)
- 1936 - Jim McKnight, infielder (d. 1994)
- 1941 - Dean Chance, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2015)
- 1942 - Randy Hundley, catcher; All-Star
- 1942 - Bob McKillop, minor league infielder
- 1942 - Ken McMullen, infielder
- 1945 - Kevin Greatrex, Australian national team infielder
- 1953 - Rick Baldwin, pitcher (d. 2020)
- 1954 - Tom Sohns, minor league infielder
- 1955 - Sandy Wihtol, pitcher
- 1956 - Seung-an Yoo, KBO catcher and manager
- 1957 - Kelly Smith, college coach
- 1962 - Jessie Reid, outfielder
- 1963 - Phil Wilson, minor league outfielder
- 1965 - Jeff Nelson, umpire
- 1965 - Walt Williams, minor league pitcher
- 1965 - Takeshi Yamada, NPB pitcher
- 1966 - Scott Tedder, minor league outfielder
- 1967 - Johnny Ard, minor league pitcher (d. 2018)
- 1967 - Ed Gustafson, scout
- 1967 - James Hurst, pitcher
- 1971 - Carlos Morales, Virgin Islands national team infielder
- 1972 - Apenisa Nawalu, Fijian national team player
- 1973 - Jose Guillen, minor league infielder and manager
- 1973 - Takaya Hayashi, NPB infielder
- 1973 - Keith Law, writer
- 1973 - Derek Lowe, pitcher; All-Star
- 1973 - Alessandro Parri, Serie A1 pitcher
- 1974 - Chin-Wei Lee, CPBL catcher
- 1974 - Antoine Loock, Hoofdklasse umpire (d. 2021)
- 1976 - Saburo Omura, NPB outfielder
- 1976 - Jim Rickon, minor league catcher
- 1977 - Brad Wilkerson, outfielder
- 1977 - Yukiya Yokoyama, NPB pitcher
- 1978 - Hiromasa Tamano, NPB infielder
- 1981 - Marvin Bleij, Hoofdklasse infielder
- 1981 - Oliver Knolmajer, Croatian national team pitcher
- 1981 - Carlos Zambrano, pitcher; All-Star
- 1982 - Tadashi Settsu, NPB pitcher
- 1983 - Mark Rodriguez, minor league pitcher
- 1984 - Wilkin Castillo, catcher
- 1984 - Clemens Cichocki, Bundesliga pitcher-infielder-outfielder
- 1984 - Richard De Los Santos, minor league pitcher
- 1984 - Osiel Flores, minor league catcher
- 1985 - Henrique Imai, Brazilian national team pitcher
- 1985 - Woo-ram Jung, KBO pitcher
- 1985 - Alessandro Maestri, NPB pitcher
- 1986 - Hee-kwan Yoo, NPB pitcher
- 1987 - Ana Maldonado, Puerto Rican womens' national team infielder
- 1987 - Jonathan Mota, minor league infielder and manager
- 1987 - Ching-Hao Tsai, CPBL pitcher
- 1988 - Jared Mortensen, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Francisco Peguero, outfielder
- 1990 - Gabriel Colina Au, Hong Kong national team infielder
- 1990 - Alexey Kobrinets, Russian national team infielder
- 1990 - Benjamin Pearson, British national team pitcher
- 1990 - Ronald Torrealba, minor league infielder
- 1992 - Yi-Chih Huang, CPBL pitcher
- 1992 - Tayler Scott, pitcher
- 1993 - Lennard Stöcklin, Bundesliga infielder-pitcher
- 1994 - Yariel González, minor league infielder
- 1994 - Hyun Jung, KBO infielder
- 1994 - Alex Lukashevich, minor league pitcher
- 1994 - Andrew Stevenson, outfielder
- 1995 - Jonathan Farías, Peruvian national team pitcher
- 1995 - Jordan Sheffield, pitcher
- 1999 - Andrew Abbott, pitcher
- 1999 - Shao-Hua Yueh, CPBL pitcher
- 2000 - Nicolás Alvarado, Argentinian national team infielder
- 2000 - Iván Herrera, catcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1893 - Bill French, outfielder (b. 1849)
- 1900 - Charlie Gray, pitcher (b. 1864)
- 1905 - Harry East, infielder (b. 1862)
- 1920 - Patrick Purtell, pre-MLB catcher (b. 1856)
- 1925 - Fred McCrum, umpire (b. 1862)
- 1928 - Charlie Jordan, pitcher (b. 1871)
- 1940 - Logan Drake, pitcher (b. 1900)
- 1941 - Red Carney, umpire (d. 1883)
- 1942 - Ed Burns, catcher (b. 1888)
- 1942 - Danny Friend, pitcher (b. 1873)
- 1954 - George Caithamer, catcher (b. 1910)
- 1954 - Vern Duncan, outfielder (b. 1890)
- 1955 - Dick Burnett, minor league owner (b. ????)
- 1957 - Pete Schneider, pitcher (b. 1895)
- 1960 - Harry Dean, pitcher (b. 1915)
- 1962 - Jim Faulkner, pitcher (b. 1899)
- 1963 - Henry Gillespie, pitcher (b. 1896)
- 1966 - Dick Cox, outfielder (b. 1897)
- 1967 - J.F. McKale, college coach (b. 1887)
- 1970 - George Watkins, outfielder (b. 1900)
- 1973 - Bunny Downs, infielder, manager (b. 1894)
- 1973 - Fred Heimach, pitcher (b. 1901)
- 1980 - Rube Marquard, pitcher; Hall of Famer (b. 1886)
- 1988 - Belve Bean, pitcher (b. 1905)
- 1994 - Bill Webb, pitcher (b. 1913)
- 1997 - Mickey Rocco, infielder (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Nancy Warren, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1921)
- 2002 - Bob Nelson, umpire (b. 1950)
- 2003 - Johnny Hopp, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1916)
- 2003 - Pete Sivess, pitcher (b. 1913)
- 2006 - Eddie Malone, catcher (b. 1920)
- 2009 - Gene Carlson, minor league pitcher (b. 1932)
- 2010 - Freddie Burdette, pitcher (b. 1936)
- 2016 - Claus Helmig, minor league pitcher (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Jack McCloskey, college coach (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Fred Van Dusen, pinch hitter (b. 1937)
- 2022 - Mark Schaeffer, pitcher (b. 1948)
- 2023 - Bobby Morgan, infielder (b. 1926)
- 2023 - John Sullivan, catcher (b. 1941)
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