Arlie "The Freshest Man on Earth" Latham (1860)
Doc Casey (1870)
Ralph Miller (1873)
Fred Lieb (1888)
Rosy Ryan (1898)
Jimmie Crutchfield (1910)
Bob Locker (1938) Wayne Granger (1944) Bobby Bonds (1946)
Jim Kern (1949) Steve Stroughter (1952) Mickey Hatcher (1955) Harold Baines (1959) Mike Pagliarulo (1960) Kim Batiste (1968)
Robert Fick (1974) Dan Perkins (1975) Vladimir Nunez (1975)
Kevin Youkilis (1979)
Ralph Miller was the first major league player to live to be a hundred years old.
Candy Nelson (1849)
Bill Holbert (1855)
Marty McManus (1900)
Jack Rothrock (1905)
Santos Amaro (1908) Dave McKay (1950) Butch Wynegar (1956) Steve Lake (1957)
Jerry Willard (1960) Kirby Puckett (1960) Kevin Brown (1965) Brent Gates (1970)
Matt Kata (1978)
Bobby Jenks (1981)
Santos Amaro is the father of Ruben Amaro Sr. and the grandfather of Ruben Amaro Jr. He was a star player in Cuba and in Mexico and is a member of the Salon de la Fama.
Matt Kata was drafted by Minnesota in the twentieth round in 1996, but did not sign.
Frank "Home Run" Baker (1886) Patsy Gharrity (1892)
Alejandro Oms (1895)
C. Arnholt Smith (1899) Doug Harvey (1930) Bill Dailey (1935) Steve Barber (1948) Terry Leach (1954) Randy Bass (1954) Yoshihiko Takahashi (1957)
Luis Aguayo (1959)
Mariano Duncan (1963)
Will Clark (1964)
Jorge Fabregas (1970)
Scott Sullivan (1971) Johan Santana (1979)
Abraham Mills (1884)
Denny Lyons (1866)
Leroy Matlock (1907)
Jim Bragan (1929)
Vern Law (1930)
Durwood Merrill (1938)
Johnny Callison (1939)
Jimmy Wynn (1942) Bill Butler (1947) Larry Rothschild (1954)
Ruppert Jones (1955)
Dale Murphy (1956)
Mike Quade (1957)
Darryl Strawberry (1962) Shawn Gilbert (1965) Steve Finley (1965)
Raul Mondesi (1971) Greg Hansell (1971) David Lee (1973)
Abraham Mills was president of the Mills Commission, which determined that Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball in Cooperstown, New York in 1839.
Bobby Winkles (1930)
Dock Ellis (1945)
Cesar Geronimo (1948)
Phil Bradley (1959) Bryan Oelkers (1961) Steve Reed (1965)
Salomon Torres (1972)
Bobby Abreu (1974)
Dan Uggla (1980) Frank Mata (1984)
Arizona signs Randy Ruiz to a minor league contract.
Arizona agrees to terms with David Winfree on a one year contract.
Baltimore releases Dennys Reyes for failure to report.
Boston agrees to terms with Darnell McDonald on a one year contract.
White Sox agree to terms with Philip Humber on a one year contract. Tyler Ladendorf is assigned to Oakland. Bobby Korecky is assigned to Toronto.
He’s still around? San Diego signs Dennis Tankersley to a minor league contract.
Gene DeMontreville (1873)
Art Herring (1906) John Briggs (1944) Wayne Twitchell (1948)
Greg Pavlick (1950) Steve Howe (1958) John Cangelosi (1963)
Mike Timlin (1966) Aaron Bates (1984)
Billy Southworth (1893) Myril Hoag (1908)
Phil Seghi (1909)
Joe Paparella (1909) Arky Vaughan (1912) Jackie Jensen (1927) Ron Kline (1932) Jim Landis (1934)
Bert Campaneris (1942)
John Curtis (1948)
Darrel Chaney (1948)
Wendell Kim (1950) Terry Mulholland (1963) Benito Santiago (1965) Vince Horsman (1967) Aaron Boone (1973) C. J. Nitkowski (1973)
American League umpire Joe Paparella holds the record for most games umpired in a season, 176 in 1962.
Harry Lord (1882)
Pat Flaherty (1897)
Bobby Goff (1902)
Pete Fox (1909)
Ray Mueller (1912)
Al Gionfriddo (1922)
Carl Furillo (1922)
Jim Bouton (1939)
Jacques Doucet (1940)
Dick Allen (1942) Jim Rice (1953) John Butcher (1957) Mark Salas (1961) Lance Barksdale (1967) Mike Moriarty (1974) Juan Encarnacion (1976)
Hines Ward (1976)
If you have a few minutes to spare, I would very much recommend reading Harry Lord’s biography at baseball-reference.com.
Pat Flaherty pitched in the minors from 1917-1921. He also played in the NFL from 1923-1928, was a major in the Air Force, and appeared in about 250 movies from 1934 to the 1950s.
NFL star Hines Ward was drafted by the Florida Marlins in 1994, but did not sign.
