Jouett Meekin (1867)
Dummy Taylor (1875)
John Titus (1876) Tom Yawkey (1903) Mark Scott (1915) Joe Foy (1943) Jack Billingham (1943)
Tom Shopay (1945) Charley Walters (1947) Rick Lysander (1953) Alan Trammell (1958)
Oscar Azocar (1965)
The birthday list (2009)
Sam Rice (1890) John Wesley Donaldson (1892)
Muddy Ruel (1896)
Pete Monahan (1902)
Tommy Henrich (1913)
Frankie Gustine (1920)
Jim Wilson (1922)
Roy Face (1928)
Shigeo Nagashima (1936)
Clyde Wright (1941)
Bill Gullickson (1959)
Shane Spencer (1972) Livan Hernandez (1975) Justin Verlander (1983) Jose Morales (1983)
John Wesley Donaldson pitched in the Negro Leagues and averaged nearly twenty strikeouts per game for the All Nations team in the 1910s. He pitched three consecutive no-hitters in 1913.
Pete Monahan played in the minors from 1921-1940, batting .301 and collecting 2,462 hits, but never played in the major leagues.
Third baseman Shigeo Nagashima played for the Yomiuri Giants from 1958-1974 and is considered by some to be the greatest player in the history of Japanese baseball.
John Morrill (1855)
Dick Siebert (1912)
Hub Kittle (1917) Russ Nixon (1935) Dave Niehaus (1935) Jackie Moore (1939)
Walt Jocketty (1951)
Dave Stewart (1957) Keith Atherton (1959) Alvaro Espinoza (1962) Miguel Batista (1971) Juan Diaz (1974)
Hub Kittle’s baseball career spanned 68 years. In 1980, he became the oldest player to appear in organized baseball, pitching a perfect inning for AAA Springfield on August 27 at age 63½.
I was reading a note about Jeff Burroughs the other day when it occurred to me that there have not been a whole lot of great ballplayers named "Jeff". So, with the help of baseball-reference.com, I put together my all-Jeff team.
Ray Ryan (1883)
George Mogridge (1889)
Sherry Smith (1891)
Jake Kline (1895)
Huck Betts (1897) Joe Gordon (1915) Herm Wehmeier (1927)
Frank House (1930)
Manny Mota (1938)
Dal Maxvill (1939) Bob Miller (1939) Jerry Morales (1949)
John Mayberry (1949)
Bruce Kison (1950)
Marc Hill (1952)
Rafael Ramirez (1958) Kevin Tapani (1964) John Valentin (1967)
Shawn Estes (1973) Jamey Carroll (1974) Chad Moeller (1975)
Ray Ryan was involved in minor league baseball for six decades. He had one baseball card, a part of the T206 tobacco series. This is the series that produced the famous Honus Wagner card.
Jake Kline was the baseball coach at Notre Dame from 1934-1975.
Pat Pieper (1886)
Nemo Leibold (1892)
Wally Pipp (1893)
Ed Brandt (1905) Red Barber (1908) Rod Dedeaux (1914)
Roger Craig (1930)
Cliff Gustafson (1931)
Dick Bosman (1944)
Dave Roberts (1951)
Jaime Easterley (1953) Mike Hart (1958) Michael Jordan (1963)
Scott Williamson (1976) Juan Padilla (1977) Josh Willingham (1979)
Pat Pieper was the public address announcer for the Chicago Cubs from 1916-1974. For the first sixteen of those years, he made the announcements with a megaphone.
Rod Dedeaux and Cliff Gustafson were highly successful college baseball coaches, Dedeaux with USC and Gustafson with Texas.
Already known as a basketball star, Michael Jordan played one year of minor league baseball for AA Birmingham in the White Sox organization before returning to the less-challenging sport.
Doug Bernier was signed to a minor league contract and assigned to Rochester. Antone Richardson was signed to a minor league contract. Rafael Perez was signed to a minor league contract. Chih-Wei Hu was assigned to the GCL Twins. Leonel Zazueta was assigned to the GCL Twins.
Alex Ferguson (1897)
Parnell Woods (1912)
Creepy Crespi (1918)
Atsushi Aramaki (1926) Bobby Darwin (1943) Terry Crowley (1947) Bob Didier (1949)
Glenn Abbott (1951)
Jerry Hairston (1952)
Barry Foote (1952)
Bill Pecota (1960) Eric Bullock (1960) Dwayne Henry (1962)
Jerome Bettis (1972)
Eric Byrnes (1976)
Parnell Woods was an infielder in the Negro Leagues for fourteen years. He later became the business manager for the Harlem Globetrotters.
Atsushi Aramaki was a dominant pitcher in Japan in the 1950s and is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
Better known as an NFL running back, Jerome Bettis is a part-owner of the Altoona Curve and the State College Spikes.
Sliding Billy Hamilton (1866) Charlie Irwin (1869)
Jimmy Ring (1895)
George Earnshaw (1900)
Larry Goetz (1900)
Lorenzo Ponza (1915)
Chuck Estrada (1938)
Ron Cey (1948)
Rick Auerbach (1950)
Joe Hesketh (1959) Mark Davidson (1961) Melido Perez (1966)
Ugueth Urbina (1974)
Alex Gonzalez (1977) Luis Ugueto (1979)
Lorenzo Ponza invented the modern pitching machine.
Larry Goetz was a National League umpire from 1936-1957.