May 11
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on May 11.
Events[edit]
- 1897 - In National League action, Washington Senators catcher Duke Farrell picks up eight assists in a game against the Baltimore Orioles. For many years, record books will credit him with eight runners caught stealing, but that is incorrect. Only five of the assists are on stolen base attempts; one comes on a pick-off and the last two on other fielding plays. In spite of Farrell's efforts, the Senators lose anyway, 6 - 3.
- 1904 - Cy Young's 23-inning no-hit string ends. The streak included two innings on April 25th, six on April 30th, a perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics on May 5th, and six innings today.
- 1919:
- Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators pitches 12 scoreless innings in a duel with Jack Quinn of the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds. Johnson allows only two hits and retires 28 batters in a row. Future football star George Halas, batting leadoff for the Yankees, goes 0 for 5, striking out twice.
- Hod Eller of the Cincinnati Reds pitches a no-hitter to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6 - 0. Eller strikes out eight and walks three.
- 1923 - Setting several Pacific Coast League records, Pete Schneider of the Vernon Tigers hits five home runs and a double with 14 RBI in a 35 - 11 romp over Salt Lake City.
- 1924 - Moses Fleetwood Walker, credited as the first black to play professional baseball at the major league level, dies in Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 67. Walker made his historic debut in 1884, when he played in 42 games for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association.
- 1932:
- Wild Bill Hallahan of the St. Louis Cardinals ties a major league record by uncorking three wild pitches in one inning in the 12-inning, 6 - 3 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- Eighth-grader Joe Schultz Jr. singles, steals second base and third base, and scores a run as a pinch-hitter in a Texas League game. The fourteen-year old, who is the son of former big leaguer Joe (Germany) Schultz, will become a catcher and manager in the major leagues.
- 1944 - Hal Trosky steals home in the 16th inning, helping the Chicago White Sox to a 4 - 2 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics. Trosky, not known for his base stealing ability, missed the previous two seasons with severe migraine headaches.
- 1946 - In front of the largest crowd in 13 years, the New York Giants defeat the Boston Braves, 5 - 1, in the first night game played at Braves Field. The 37,407 fans are surprised as their hometown heroes enter the field wearing shiny satin uniforms designed to reflect the light generated by the electricity used for the evening contest.
- 1948 - During a rain delay of a Richmond Roses-Marion Cubs game, Marion catcher Bob Osgood has a heart attack in the dugout. He dies at age 19. Osgood had a history of heart problems.
- 1949 - Scoring in every inning, the Chicago White Sox beat the Boston Red Sox, 12 - 8, at Comiskey Park. A team tallying in every inning has only occurred five times in American League history.
- 1950:
- Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff introduces legislation for the observance of a National Baseball Day.
- A train strike forces many teams to fly to their next scheduled games. Traveling by air is still a rarity in the major leagues at this time.
- 1953 - A deadly hurricane destroys the city of Waco, TX, killing over 100 persons and destroying Katy Park, home of the Waco Pirates of the Big State League. The team will relocate to Longview, TX for the remainder of the season.
- 1955 - Ernie Banks hits a grand slam - the first of five on the year - to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 10 - 8 victory that snaps the Brooklyn Dodgers' 11-game winning streak.
- 1956 - Rookie Danny Kravitz will accumulate ten home runs during his five-year major league career, but he'll never top this, his first - a walk-off grand slam. It transforms a three-run deficit into a 6 - 5 victory over Philly for Pittsburgh. It also launches the perennial cellar dwellers on a 16 and 6 tear that will land them, briefly, in first place before the bubble bursts and they revert to type, gradually wending their way back down to the cellar by season's end.
- 1957 - Even though the game is practically over before the Pirates come to bat, having given up six runs to the Phillies in the top of the 1st inning, the first Pirate at-bat provides the most memorable moment of the game, Roberto Clemente's 440-plus-foot inside-the-park home run. The Phils win the game, 7 - 2.
- 1963 - Sandy Koufax pitches the second of four career no-hitters to help the Los Angeles Dodgers beat San Francisco, 8 - 0.
- 1971 - Pitcher Steve Dunning of the Cleveland Indians hits a grand slam homer off Diego Segui of the Oakland Athletics to give the Indians a 5 - 0 lead, but reliever Phil Hennigan gets the victory in the Indians' 7 - 5 win. Due to the adoption the designated hitter rule in 1973, Dunning's slam will remain the last one hit by an American League pitcher until Seattle's Félix Hernández does it in an interleague game against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium in 2008.
- 1972 - Tom Seaver wins his 100th game in a 2 - 1 New York Mets victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Mets also acquire veteran outfielder Willie Mays from the San Francisco Giants for pitcher Charlie Williams and $50,000.
- 1977 - Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner decides to take the managerial reins of his team, which has lost 16 straight games. The Braves lose their 17th in a row in Turner's debut, as coach Vern Benson makes most of the strategic decisions. After the game, the National League removes Turner from the dugout, citing a rule that prevents an owner from doubling as manager. Dave Bristol, who was given a "sabbatical" to allow Turner to step into the dugout, will be brought back to finish the year at the helm of the team.
- 1980 - 39-year-old Pete Rose steals second base, third, and home in one inning for the Phillies. The last National League player to pull off this feat had been Jackie Robinson in 1954.
- 1984 - The Detroit Tigers improve their record to 26-4 with an 8 - 2 victory over the California Angels and establish a new record for the best 30-game start in major league history, eclipsing the 25-5 mark set by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955.
- 1990 - Dave Winfield rejects a trade that would have sent him from the New York Yankees to the California Angels in exchange for pitcher Mike Witt. A no-trade clause in Winfield's contract gives him the right to turn down the deal. Five days later, Winfield will reach an agreement with the Yankees and give his permission for the trade to take place.
- 1996 - Al Leiter pitches the first no-hitter in the Florida Marlins' brief history. Leiter strikes out six and walks two batters to beat the Colorado Rockies, 11 - 0.
- 1998 - Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs sets the major league record for strikeouts in consecutive games (33) by fanning 13 Arizona Diamondbacks in a 4 - 2 victory. The record for strikeouts in two starts had been 32, set by Luis Tiant in 1968 and matched by Nolan Ryan (1974), Dwight Gooden (1984) and Randy Johnson (1997).
- 1999 - For the first time in the 20th century, two starting pitchers in major league baseball share the same name as the Colorado Rockies' lefthander Bobby M. Jones faces righthander Bobby J. Jones and the New York Mets at Coors Field. B.M. defeats B.J. and the Mets, 8 - 5.
- 2000:
- The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs, 14 - 8, in the longest nine-inning game in National League history: 4 hours, 22 minutes. The teams tie the major league record set in the American League by Baltimore and the Yankees on September 5, 1997. The game features one of the longest home runs in the history of Wrigley Field. A picture circulated by the Associated Press puts it this way: "Rick Frohock celebrates on the rooftop of a three-story building on Waveland Ave. behind the left-field bleachers of Wrigley Field after catching a home run hit by Chicago's Glenallen Hill against the Brewers. It was believed to be the first time a ball landed on top of the apartment building." Hill's shot is estimated at 490 feet by the next day's press accounts and eventually measured at 500 feet.
- At the age of 37, Florida Marlins pitcher Joe Strong becomes the oldest player to make his major league debut since pitcher Diomedes Olivo debuted with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1960 as a 41-year-old.
- Manny Ramirez hits a 1st-inning grand slam and adds a two-run home run in the 6th to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 16 - 0 rout of the Kansas City Royals. The victory, which stops Kansas City's winning streak at five games, is Cleveland's most lopsided shutout in 45 years, since the Indians crushed the Boston Red Sox, 19 - 0.
- 2001 - After another dreadful appearance yesterday in which he threw five wild pitches, the Cardinals send promising young fireballer Rick Ankiel to Triple-A Memphis to work on overcoming his unexplainable lack of control. The left-hander has walked 25 batters in 24 innings this season.
- 2003:
- Rafael Palmeiro of the Texas Rangers becomes the 19th player to join the 500 home run club. In a 17 - 10 win, Palmeiro hits a full-count fastball into the right field stands off Cleveland Indians righthander Dave Elder.
- Amidst criticism of his handling of pitchers due the rash of recent injuries to the team's young arms, the Florida Marlins fire manager Jeff Torborg. Jack McKeon, who has previously managed four other clubs, becomes the franchise's sixth skipper, taking over a 16-22 team that will catch fire under his calm leadership.
- 2004:
- In Massachusetts, Pittsfield city officials and historians release a bylaw dating back to 1791 which they believe is the earliest written reference to baseball. The 213-year-old document, used to protect the windows in the town's new meeting house by prohibiting anyone from playing baseball within 80 yards of the building, was uncovered by baseball historian John Thorn while doing research on the origins of baseball.
- At Fenway Park, Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox leads his teammates out of the dugout waving an American flag to celebrate his first day as a citizen of the United States. As the 31-year-old native of the Dominican Republic comes to bat, the song America by Neil Diamond is played over the public address system.
- 2005 - The Boston Red Sox end a game for the second consecutive day by hitting a walk-off home run off the same pitcher, a feat only accomplished five previous times in major league history. Oakland Athletics closer Octavio Dotel, who gave up the decisive blast to Kevin Millar the previous day, is victimized today by Jason Varitek in the bottom of the 9th inning, to beat Oakland, 6 - 5.
- 2006 - Hideki Matsui of the New York Yankees breaks his left wrist and his consecutive games streak ends in the Boston Red Sox's 5 - 3 victory at Yankee Stadium. Going back to his days in Nippon Pro Baseball, he had appeared in 1,768 consecutive games. Matsui had played in 518 consecutive games (a record for the start of a career) since joining the Yankees in 2003 after playing in 1,250 straight for the Yomiuri Giants from August 22, 1993, through 2002.
- 2008 - The Colorado Springs SkySox top the Albuquerque Isotopes, 5 - 1. The game is historic in that it is the first no-hitter ever thrown at home by the SkySox. Franklin Morales walks six in five hitless innings and is relieved in turn by Chris George (1 2/3 IP, 2 BB), Matt Daley (1 1/3 IP, 1 BB) and Steven Register (1 IP, no BB) as the Isotopes get nine walks but no hits.
- 2009 - Ryan Zimmerman goes 4 for 5 with two home runs to extend his hitting streak to 29 games, but San Francisco beats Washington, 11 - 7. Randy Johnson strikes out nine for career win number 298. The game features the tallest pitching match-up in history, with the 6' 10" Johnson facing Daniel Cabrera, who stands 6' 9".
- 2010:
- Johnny Cueto comes within about a foot of a no-hitter when SS Paul Janish dives to stop Ronny Cedeno's ground ball in the 3rd inning, only to see it deflect off his glove for a single. That's the only base hit for the Pirates, as the Reds hurler records a 9 - 0 one-hitter. Chris Heisey gets his first three major league hits in the game, including a home run.
- The Mariners' key acquisition during the off-season, left-handed pitcher Cliff Lee, finally wins a game for his new team. After spending all of April on the disabled list with a strained abdominal muscle, and pitching well in his first two starts but being let down by an anemic offense, he pitches 7 1/3 strong innings in a 5 - 1 win over the Orioles. Brandon League then relieves Lee and finishes the game to earn his first save of the year, while Ryan Langerhans homers off loser David Hernandez, who is now 0-5.
- In their first game since Dallas Braden's perfect game, the A's have to use six relievers to grind out a 7 - 6 win over the Rangers in 13 innings. Daric Barton drives in Landon Powell, who had just stolen his first major league base on a busted hit-and-run play, for the winning run. Barton had earlier homered in the 11th, only to see Texas come back against Tyson Ross for the third blown save by an A's reliever on the night. Ross then strikes out when forced to bat in the 12th because of an empty Oakland bench, and later gets credit for his first major league win.
- Hyun-jin Ryu sets a new Korea Baseball Organization record with 17 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, breaking the mark of 16 shared by Dong-won Choi, Dae-jin Lee and Dong-yol Sun; Sun had whiffed 18 in an extra-inning game as well. Ryu's Hanwha Eagles top the LG Twins, 3 - 1. Byung-kyu Lee's solo shot is the lone run off Ryu.
- 2011:
- The Indians' 14-game home winning streak comes to an end at the hands of the Rays' David Price, who shuts them down in an 8 - 2 win. The Indians have vaulted to the top of the AL Central standings on the strength of their success at home; logically, the team that finally beats them - the Rays - sports the best road record in the majors at 12-5.
- Tim Wakefield takes the mound for the Red Sox at age 44 years and 282 days. He breaks Deacon McGuire's record as the oldest performer in Boston Red Sox history - McGuire was 44 years and 280 days old on August 24, 1908, his last game for the franchise.
- 2012:
- The Rays and Orioles face each other in Baltimore tied with the best record in the AL East at 20-12. The Orioles continue their surprising start when they come out on top, 4 - 3, on Nick Johnson's first homer of the season, off Joel Peralta in the 7th, after not playing in the majors in 2011.
- Brandon Inge drives in four runs as the A's romp past the Tigers, 11 - 4. Detroit released Inge earlier this season, but he is now on a tear, becoming the first major leaguer since Lou Gehrig in 1931 to drive in four or more runs four times in a five-game span.
- 2013 - Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals retires the first 13 batters in his start against the Rockies. Combined with Shelby Miller's 27 straight outs to end yesterday's game, the Cardinals tie a record for most consecutive outs by one team against another at 40; the Texas Rangers had also performed the feat on May 3-4, 1996. A one-out walk to Todd Helton in the 5th inning ends the streak, but Wainwright keeps the no-hitter going until the 7th and ends up with a two-hit shutout, 3 - 0.
- 2016:
- Max Scherzer ties the major league record by striking out 20 batters in a nine-inning game against his former team as the Nationals defeat the Tigers, 3 - 2. He now shares the mark with Roger Clemens (who did it twice), Kerry Wood and Randy Johnson. Scherzer does not issue a single walk in the game.
- Today's game between the Reds and Pirates features six hit batsmen, four ejections and four solo homers by Pittsburgh, which wins, 5 - 4, on a 9th-inning single by Jordy Mercer. Bucs OF Starling Marte and manager Clint Hurdle both get the heave-ho for arguing a caught stealing call in the 6th, but Marte's replacement, Josh Harrison, later hits one of his team's homers. For the Reds, P Ross Ohlendorf and manager Bryan Price are thumbed after Ohlendorf plunks David Freese following Mercer's single.
- 2020 - Major League Baseball owners agree on a tentative plan to resume the season that has been put on hold since spring training was shut down in early March by the coronavirus pandemic. Training would resume in June and an 82-game season would start around July 1-4, with games played in home ballparks, but without spectators. Teams would play games only against divisional opponents, or teams from the corresponding division in the other league, and the postseason would be expanded to 14 teams from the current 10. Rosters would be expanded to 30 players, with an additional 22-man taxi squad available as replacements in the absence of minor league games. Owners insist that the Players Association will need to accept that salaries will be based on total revenues for the plan to go ahead, something that is unlikely to be acceptable, however. This exact plan will be rejected, but the two sides will agree on a 60-game season starting in late July along the same general parameters.
- 2021:
- The Oakland Athletics receive permission from MLB to start exploring relocation options, as their most recent attempt to come to an agreement with local authorities on replacing the outdated Oakland Coliseum, has gone nowhere.
- 3B Tyler Bosetti of the University of Nevada sets a new NCAA record by homering in his ninth straight game.
- 2022 - Christian Yelich becomes the fifth player to hit for the cycle for the third time when he does so in a 14 - 11 Brewers loss to the Reds. His previous two cycles had also come against the Reds, within a three-week span in 2018.
Births[edit]
- 1863 - Jim Connor, infielder (d. 1950)
- 1871 - Art Herman, pitcher (d. 1955)
- 1874 - Roy Clark, outfielder (d. 1925)
- 1881 - Al Cabrera, infielder (d. 1964)
- 1881 - Jesse Purnell, infielder (d. 1966)
- 1884 - Monte Pfyl, infielder (d. 1945)
- 1885 - Fred Hoey, broadcaster (d. 1949)
- 1890 - Jimmy Whelan, pinch hitter (d. 1929)
- 1891 - Roger Salmon, pitcher (d. 1974)
- 1895 - Jack Marshall, pitcher (d. 1961)
- 1897 - Claude Rohwer, minor league infielder (d. 1940)
- 1903 - Charlie Gehringer, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1993)
- 1905 - Harry Slate, minor league pitcher (d. 1958)
- 1907 - Rip Sewell, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1989)
- 1909 - Ramón Bragaña, pitcher/utility player; Salon de la Fama (d. 1985)
- 1910 - Eddie Chiles, owner (d. 1993)
- 1910 - Vail Jewell, infielder (d. 1989)
- 1911 - Horace Harris, outfielder (d. 1986)
- 1912 - Del Young, infielder (d. 1979)
- 1914 - Al Williams, pitcher (d. 1969)
- 1917 - Johnny Gerlach, infielder (d. 1999)
- 1917 - Dave Short, outfielder (d. 1983)
- 1918 - Dewey Adkins, pitcher (d. 1998)
- 1919 - Porter Vaughan, pitcher (d. 2008)
- 1920 - Joe Campini, catcher (d. 2001)
- 1920 - Gene Hermanski, outfielder (d. 2010)
- 1921 - Jack Lang, writer (d. 2007)
- 1921 - Ben Phillips, minor league catcher (d. 2013)
- 1921 - Ken Rudisill, minor league player and manager (d. 1994)
- 1922 - Nestor Chylak, umpire; Hall of Famer (d. 1982)
- 1922 - Thelma Eisen, AAGPBL outfielder (d. 2014)
- 1922 - Monte Kennedy, pitcher (d. 1997)
- 1924 - Frank Campos, outfielder (d. 2006)
- 1923 - Lou Arnold, AAGPBL pitcher (d. 2010)
- 1928 - Vern Rapp, manager (d. 2015)
- 1928 - Mel Wright, pitcher (d. 1983)
- 1937 - Hsin-Chang Lin, CPBL manager
- 1939 - Hector Martinez, outfielder (d. 1999)
- 1939 - Milt Pappas, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2016)
- 1939 - Frank Quilici, infielder, manager (d. 2018)
- 1940 - Harry Fanok, pitcher
- 1941 - George Shinn, minor league owner
- 1947 - Masakazu Satake, Japanese national team catcher and manager
- 1949 - Jerry Martin, outfielder
- 1950 - Dane Iorg, outfielder
- 1951 - Hisao Niura, NPB pitcher
- 1958 - Mark Huismann, pitcher
- 1958 - Walt Terrell, pitcher
- 1964 - Bill Bean, outfielder
- 1964 - Jeff Sellers, pitcher
- 1964 - Bobby Witt, pitcher
- 1964 - Floyd Youmans, pitcher
- 1965 - Ho-ik Chang, KBO catcher
- 1966 - Trenidad Hubbard, outfielder
- 1966 - Norio Tanabe, NPB infielder and manager
- 1968 - Mike Garcia, pitcher; All-Star
- 1969 - Phil Dauphin, minor league outfielder
- 1971 - Britt Bonneau, college coach
- 1971 - Tsutomu Iwamoto, NPB pitcher
- 1971 - Kerry Ligtenberg, pitcher
- 1972 - Cam Cairncross, pitcher
- 1974 - Dmytro Nelipo, Extraliga outfielder
- 1974 - Kazuo Yamaguchi, NPB pitcher
- 1975 - Francisco Cordero, pitcher; All-Star
- 1975 - Jeff Fiermonte, minor league outfielder
- 1978 - Luis Alfonso Garcia, minor league infielder, outfielder and pitcher
- 1979 - Barry Armitage, minor league pitcher
- 1979 - Jahseam George, minor league pitcher
- 1980 - Francisco Butto, minor league pitcher
- 1980 - Roy Corcoran, pitcher
- 1980 - Richard Harrell, South African national team pitcher
- 1980 - Ryuji Ono, NPB catcher
- 1981 - Dan Ortmeier, outfielder
- 1982 - Brad Dutton, minor league infielder
- 1982 - Kenichi Nakata, NPB pitcher
- 1982 - Chang-Wei Tu, CPBL pitcher
- 1983 - Marysel Cruz, Puerto Rican women's national team pitcher
- 1983 - Manny Del Campo, minor league catcher
- 1985 - Eric Krebs, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Marianne Perez, Venezuelan women's national team infielder
- 1986 - Alfredo Venegas, minor league pitcher
- 1987 - Kyung-ka Kim, South Korean women's national team infielder
- 1987 - Kevin Mahoney, minor league infielder
- 1987 - Red Patterson, pitcher
- 1987 - Sami Säkkinen, Elitserien pitcher
- 1988 - Alexi Legrá, Bolivian national team infielder
- 1989 - David Buchanan, pitcher
- 1990 - Radley Haddad, coach
- 1990 - Juan Pablo Oramas, minor league pitcher
- 1990 - Alex Phillips, minor league pitcher
- 1990 - Jan-Niclas Stöcklin, Bundesliga pitcher
- 1990 - Garrett Wittels, minor league infielder
- 1991 - Kyra van Genderen, Dutch women's national team outfielder
- 1992 - Quentin Benedek, Division Elite outfielder
- 1992 - Matěj Menšík, Extraliga outfielder
- 1992 - Lauren Murphy, Australian women's national team pitcher
- 1992 - Glenn Sparkman, pitcher
- 1993 - Anthony Blaluk, Palauan national team outfielder
- 1993 - Miguel Sano, infielder; All-Star
- 1994 - Jackson Stephens, pitcher
- 1995 - Gunnar Buhner, minor league infielder
- 1995 - Unubold Oyunbaatar, Mongolian national team catcher
- 1995 - Derwin Pomare, minor league infielder
- 1995 - Ryder Ryan, pitcher
- 1996 - José Azocar, outfielder
- 1996 - Griffin Canning, pitcher
- 1996 - Jordan Yamamoto, pitcher
- 1996 - Noah Zavolas, minor league pitcher
- 1998 - David Lozano, minor league infielder
Deaths[edit]
- 1887 - John Ake, infielder (b. 1861)
- 1924 - John Stedronsky, infielder (b. 1850)
- 1924 - Fleet Walker, catcher (b. 1856)
- 1937 - Nick Scharf, outfielder (b. 1858)
- 1938 - Buzz Murphy, outfielder (b. 1895)
- 1945 - Shinichi Ishimaru, NPB pitcher (b. 1922)
- 1948 - Bob Osgood, minor league catcher (b. 1928)
- 1949 - Ben Holmes, Negro league infielder (b. 1858)
- 1953 - Ed Hug, catcher (b. 1880)
- 1954 - Dorsey Riddlemoser, pitcher (b. 1875)
- 1961 - Lee Dunham, infielder (b. 1902)
- 1961 - Jack Marshall, pitcher (b. 1895)
- 1965 - Anuar Canavati, minor league executive; Salon de la Fama (b. 1911)
- 1966 - Shinzo Koizumi, amateur executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1888)
- 1968 - Dan Boone, pitcher (b. 1895)
- 1971 - Jeff McCleskey, infielder (b. 1891)
- 1972 - Lynn King, outfielder (b. 1907)
- 1972 - Danny Schell, outfielder (b. 1927)
- 1972 - Suds Sutherland, pitcher (b. 1894)
- 1977 - Johnnie Chambers, pitcher (b. 1911)
- 1977 - Oscar Horstmann, pitcher (b. 1891)
- 1978 - Francisco Contreras, Venezuelan national team outfielder (b. 1922)
- 1981 - Sammy Byrd, outfielder (b. 1907)
- 1982 - Dave Malarcher, infielder, manager (b. 1894)
- 1982 - Sotaro Suzuki, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1890)
- 1984 - Earl Reid, pitcher (b. 1913)
- 1985 - Johnny Bero, infielder (b. 1922)
- 1985 - Ramón Bragaña, pitcher/utility player; Salón de la Fama (b. 1909)
- 1985 - Bud Teachout, pitcher (b. 1904)
- 1994 - Bennie Warren, catcher (b. 1912)
- 1997 - Vince Sherlock, infielder (b. 1910)
- 1999 - Ben Taylor, infielder (b. 1924)
- 2000 - Pat Olsen, minor league pitcher (b. 1902)
- 2002 - Steve Rachunok, pitcher (b. 1916)
- 2008 - Randy Sawa, Canadian national team pitcher (b. ~1949)
- 2009 - Johnny Schaive, infielder (b. 1934)
- 2009 - Norm Daniels, college coach (b. 1907)
- 2009 - Bill Kelso, pitcher (b. 1940)
- 2010 - Rich Bristow, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1970)
- 2011 - Gé Hoogenbos, Hoofdklasse infielder-outfielder and coach (b. 1925)
- 2011 - Mel Queen, pitcher, manager (b. 1942)
- 2012 - Rose Mary Glaser, AAGPBL player (b. 1921)
- 2012 - Frank Wills, pitcher (b. 1958)
- 2013 - Mike Davison, pitcher (b. 1945)
- 2013 - Taisei Nakamura, NPB pitcher (b. 1935)
- 2013 - Len Yochim, pitcher (b. 1928)
- 2014 - Thelma Eisen, AAGPBL outfielder (d. 1922)
- 2014 - Guy Morton, pinch-hitter (b. 1930)
- 2015 - Kay Heim, AAGPBL catcher (b. 1917)
- 2017 - Fred Kelley, college coach (b. 1936)
- 2019 - Larry Howard, catcher (b. 1945)
- 2019 - Jos Loogman, Hoofdklasse umpire (b. 1942)
- 2020 - Larry Gowell, pitcher (b. 1948)
- 2020 - Jordan Horne, college coach (b. 1943)
- 2023 - Futoshi Nakanishi, NPB infielder and manager (b. 1933)
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