Champions

• World Series
  1925 World Series
  In the 1925 World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the defending champion Washington Senators in seven games.In a reversal of fortune on all counts from the previous 1924 World Series, when Washington's Walter Johnson had come back from two losses to win the seventh and deciding game, Johnson...
  
  : Pittsburgh Pirates
  Pittsburgh Pirates
  The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...
  
   over Washington Senators
  Minnesota Twins
  The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...
  
   (4-3)
• Negro League World Series
  Negro League World Series
  The Negro League World Series was a post-season baseball tournament which was held from 1924-1927 and from 1942-1948 between the champions of the Negro leagues, matching the mid-western winners against their east coast counterparts....
  
  : Hilldale Daisies over Kansas City Monarchs
  Kansas City Monarchs
  The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro Leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri and owned by J.L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930. J.L. Wilkinson was the first Caucasian owner at the time...
  
   (5-1)

Awards and honors

• League Award
  MLB Most Valuable Player Award
  The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award is an annual Major League Baseball award, given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League. Since 1931, it has been awarded by the Baseball Writers Association of America...
  
  
  • Roger Peckinpaugh
    Roger Peckinpaugh
    Roger Thorpe Peckinpaugh was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians , New York Yankees , Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox...
    
    , Washington Senators
    Minnesota Twins
    The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...
    
    , SS
  • Rogers Hornsby
    Rogers Hornsby
    Rogers Hornsby, Sr. , nicknamed "The Rajah", was an American baseball infielder, manager, and coach who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball . He played for the St. Louis Cardinals , New York Giants , Boston Braves , Chicago Cubs , and St. Louis Browns...
    
    , St. Louis Cardinals
    St. Louis Cardinals
    The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...
    
    , 2B

MLB statistical leaders

American League final standings

National League final standings

Negro National League final standings

• Kansas City won the first half, St. Louis won the second half.
• Kansas City beat St. Louis 5 games to 3 games in a play-off.

Eastern Colored League final standings

Events

• April 14
  • On opening day, there is a slugfest in St. Louis as the Browns and visiting Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians
    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...
    
     put up a combined 35 runs. Cleveland puts up twelve in the eighth, and wins 21-14.
  • Hall of Famer
    National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
    The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of...
    
     Lefty Grove
    Lefty Grove
    Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was a professional baseball pitcher. After having success in the minor leagues during the early 1920s, Grove became a star in Major League Baseball with the American League's Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, winning 300 games in his 17-year MLB career...
    
     is the opening day starter for the Philadelphia Athletics
    Oakland Athletics
    The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....
    
    . He lasts 3.2 innings, and gives up five runs
    Run (baseball)
    In baseball, a run is scored when a player advances around first, second and third base and returns safely to home plate, touching the bases in that order, before three outs are recorded and all obligations to reach base safely on batted balls are met or assured...
    
     (four earned) in his major league debut. Fellow Hall of Famer Mickey Cochrane
    Mickey Cochrane
    Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane was a professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers...
    
     also makes his major league debut, and is one-for-two as the A's defeat the Boston Red Sox
    Boston Red Sox
    The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
    
    , 9-8 in ten innings.

• May 1 - Jimmie Foxx
  Jimmie Foxx
  James Emory "Jimmie" Foxx , nicknamed "Double X" and "The Beast", was a right-handed American Major League Baseball first baseman and noted power hitter....
  
   hits a double
  Double (baseball)
  In baseball, a double is the act of a batter striking the pitched ball and safely reaching second base without being called out by the umpire, without the benefit of a fielder's misplay or another runner being put out on a fielder's choice....
  
   in his first major league at-bat. His Athletics lose 9-4 to the Washington Senators
  Minnesota Twins
  The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...
  
  .

• May 5 - Everett Scott
  Everett Scott
  Lewis Everett Scott , nicknamed "Deacon", was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for 12 seasons with the Boston Red Sox , New York Yankees , Washington Senators , Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds . Scott batted and threw right-handed...
  
  's record streak of 1‚307 consecutive games played comes to an end as he is replaced by rookie Pee-Wee Wanninger
  Pee-Wee Wanninger
  Paul Louis Wanninger was a backup shortstop in Major League Baseball who played from through for the New York Yankees , Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds...
  
   at shortstop
  Shortstop
  Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...
  
   in the 6–2 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics. His mark will be broken by Lou Gehrig
  Lou Gehrig
  Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig , nicknamed "The Iron Horse" for his durability, was an American Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his entire 17-year baseball career for the New York Yankees . Gehrig set several major league records. He holds the record for most career grand slams...
  
   on August 17, .

• May 7 - Pittsburgh Pirates
  Pittsburgh Pirates
  The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...
  
   shortstop Glenn Wright
  Glenn Wright
  Forest Glenn Wright, nicknamed "Buckshot" , was a former professional baseball player who played short stop in the Major Leagues from 1924-1935. Wright would play for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Chicago White Sox...
  
   turns the fifth unassisted triple play
  Unassisted triple play
  In baseball, an unassisted triple play occurs when a defensive player makes all three putouts by himself in one continuous play, without any teammates touching the ball . In Major League Baseball , it is one of the rarest of individual feats, along with hitting four home runs in one game and the...
  
   in Major League history in the ninth inning of a 10-9 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals
  St. Louis Cardinals
  The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...
  
  .

• May 17 - The Cleveland Indians' Tris Speaker
  Tris Speaker
  Tristram E. Speaker , nicknamed "Spoke" and "The Grey Eagle", was an American baseball player. Considered one of the best offensive and defensive center fielders in the history of Major League Baseball, he compiled a career batting average of .345 , and still holds the record of 792 career doubles...
  
   gets his 3,000th hit, off Tom Zachary
  Tom Zachary
  Jonathan Thompson Walton Zachary was a pitcher who had a 19-year career that lasted from 1918 to 1936. He played for the Philadelphia A's, Washington Senators, St...
  
  , in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators.

• June 1 - Lou Gehrig
  Lou Gehrig
  Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig , nicknamed "The Iron Horse" for his durability, was an American Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his entire 17-year baseball career for the New York Yankees . Gehrig set several major league records. He holds the record for most career grand slams...
  
   pinch hits for Pee-Wee Wanninger
  Pee-Wee Wanninger
  Paul Louis Wanninger was a backup shortstop in Major League Baseball who played from through for the New York Yankees , Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds...
  
   to begin Gehrig's 2,130 consecutive game streak.

• June 2 - After losing five in a row, New York Yankees manager Miller Huggins
  Miller Huggins
  Miller James Huggins , nicknamed "Mighty Mite", was a baseball player and manager. He managed the powerhouse New York Yankee teams of the 1920s and won six American League pennants and three World Series championships....
  
   "shakes up" the slumping lineup by replacing first baseman
  First baseman
  First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player's team...
  
   Wally Pipp
  Wally Pipp
  Walter Clement Pipp was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball, now best remembered as the man who lost his starting role to Lou Gehrig at the beginning of Gehrig's streak of 2,130 consecutive games....
  
   in the starting lineup with Lou Gehrig, and second baseman
  Second baseman
  Second base, or 2B, is the second of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that player's team. A second baseman is the baseball player guarding second base...
  
   Aaron Ward with utility infielder
  Infielder
  An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field.-Standard arrangement of positions:In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns playing offensive and defensive roles...
  
   Howie Shanks
  Howie Shanks
  Howard Samuel Shanks , was a Major League Baseball outfielder. He played fourteen seasons in the majors, from 1912–1925, for the Washington Senators, New York Yankees, and Boston Red Sox.-See also:*List of Major League Baseball leaders in career stolen bases*List of Major League Baseball triples...
  
  . The strategy works as Gehrig goes three-for-five with a run scored, and Shanks goes one-for-four with a run scored in the Yankees' 8-5 victory over the Washington Senators. Pipp only logs seventeen more plate appearances for the rest of the season, and is sold to the Cincinnati Reds
  Cincinnati Reds
  The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....
  
   for $7,500 following the season.

• June 6 - Eddie Collins
  Eddie Collins
  Edward Trowbridge Collins, Sr. , nicknamed "Cocky", was an American Major League Baseball second baseman, manager and executive...
  
   of the Chicago White Sox
  Chicago White Sox
  The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...
  
   records his 3000th career hit.

• July 23 - Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig hits the first of his major league record 23 grand slams to beat Firpo Marberry
  Firpo Marberry
  Frederick "Firpo" Marberry was an American right-handed starting and relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from to , most notably with the Washington Senators...
  
   and the Senators, 11–7.

• August 6 - Three American League
  American League
  The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major...
  
   teams put up ten runs, as the Chicago White Sox defeat the Boston Red Sox
  Boston Red Sox
  The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
  
   10-0, the New York Yankees defeat the Detroit Tigers
  Detroit Tigers
  The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
  
   10-4 and the Washington Senators defeat the St. Louis Browns 10-3.

• August 27 - The St. Louis Browns' Bullet Joe Bush
  Bullet Joe Bush
  Leslie Ambrose "Bullet Joe" Bush born in Brainerd, Minnesota was a pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics , Boston Red Sox , New York Yankees , St. Louis Browns , Washington Senators , Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants...
  
   one hits the Washington Senators to complete a three game sweep of the first place team.

• August 30 - After being swept by the St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park
  Sportsman's Park
  Sportsman's Park was the name of several former Major League Baseball ballpark structures in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, all but one of which were located on the same piece of land, the northwest corner of Grand Boulevard and Dodier Street on the north side of the city.- History :From...
  
  , the Washington Senators come back and sweep the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park
  Comiskey Park
  Comiskey Park was the ballpark in which the Chicago White Sox played from 1910 to 1990. It was built by Charles Comiskey after a design by Zachary Taylor Davis, and was the site of four World Series and more than 6,000 major league games...
  
  . They sweep the second place Philadelphia Athletics on September 1 & 2 to build a 5.5 game lead, and coast the remainder of the way to their second consecutive American League championship.

• September 13 - Dazzy Vance
  Dazzy Vance
  Charles Arthur "Dazzy" Vance was a star Major League Baseball starting pitcher during the 1920s.-Biography:...
  
   pitches a no-hitter
  No-hitter
  A no-hitter is a baseball game in which one team has no hits. In Major League Baseball, the team must be without hits during the entire game, and the game must be at least nine innings. A pitcher who prevents the opposing team from achieving a hit is said to have "thrown a no-hitter"...
  
   for the Brooklyn Robins in a 10-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies
  Philadelphia Phillies
  The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
  
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• September 27 - 1925 National League Most Valuable Player Rogers Hornsby
  Rogers Hornsby
  Rogers Hornsby, Sr. , nicknamed "The Rajah", was an American baseball infielder, manager, and coach who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball . He played for the St. Louis Cardinals , New York Giants , Boston Braves , Chicago Cubs , and St. Louis Browns...
  
   goes three-for-three to raise his batting average
  Batting average
  Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...
  
   to .403. The Cardinals, however, lose 7-6 to the Boston Braves. With the Cards 19 games back of first place, Hornsby sits out the remaining four games on his team's schedule to secure a .400 average for the third time in his career.

• October 2
  • Leo Durocher
    Leo Durocher
    Leo Ernest Durocher , nicknamed Leo the Lip, was an American infielder and manager in Major League Baseball. Upon his retirement, he ranked fifth all-time among managers with 2,009 career victories, second only to John McGraw in National League history. Durocher still ranks tenth in career wins by...
    
     makes his major league debut in the Yankees' 10-0 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics.
  • Replacing Rogers Hornsby at second base in the St. Louis Cardinals' line-up, Specs Toporcer
    Specs Toporcer
    George Toporczer [played as Toporcer] was a professional baseball player and executive. He served primarily as a utility infielder during his eight seasons in Major League Baseball, playing for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1921 through 1928. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
    
     is the hitting star of the Cardinals' 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs with a home run, double and two runs scored. Toporcer goes eight-for-eighteen filling in for Hornsby in the final four games on the Cardinals' schedule.

• October 4 - Ty Cobb
  Ty Cobb
  Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb , nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He was born in Narrows, Georgia...
  
   pitches a 1-2-3 ninth inning in the Detroit Tigers' 11-6 victory over the St. Louis Browns.

• October 7 - Walter Johnson
  Walter Johnson
  Walter Perry Johnson , nicknamed "Barney" and "The Big Train", was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played his entire 21-year baseball career for the Washington Senators...
  
  's pitching leads the Washington Senators to a 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in game one of the 1925 World Series
  1925 World Series
  In the 1925 World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the defending champion Washington Senators in seven games.In a reversal of fortune on all counts from the previous 1924 World Series, when Washington's Walter Johnson had come back from two losses to win the seventh and deciding game, Johnson...
  
  . Senators shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh
  Roger Peckinpaugh
  Roger Thorpe Peckinpaugh was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians , New York Yankees , Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox...
  
   commits the first of a record eight errors in the series.

• October 8 - Kiki Cuyler
  Kiki Cuyler
  Hazen Shirley "Kiki" Cuyler was a Major League Baseball right fielder from 1921 until 1938. He was born in Harrisville, Michigan.Cuyler broke into the big leagues in 1921 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and became a fixture in the lineup in 1924...
  
  's two-run home run
  Home run
  In baseball, a home run is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team in the process...
  
   in the eighth inning carriers the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 3-2 victory in the second game of the World Series
  World Series
  The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball, played between the American League and National League champions since 1903. The winner of the World Series championship is determined through a best-of-seven playoff and awarded the Commissioner's Trophy...
  
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• October 10 - The Washington Senators come from behind to take game three of the World Series.

• October 11 - Walter Johnson wins his second game of the 1925 World Series, holding the Pirates to six hits, and no runs.

• October 12 - The Pirates take game five of the World Series, 6-3. Clyde Barnhart
  Clyde Barnhart
  Clyde Lee Barnhart , is a former right-handed outfielder and third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates...
  
   is the hitting star of the game, going two-for-four with two RBIs and a run scored.

• October 13 - Eddie Moore
  Eddie Moore
  Eddie Deon Moore is an American football player who currently plays linebacker for the Denver Broncos. He went to high school in South Pittsburg, Tennessee...
  
   leads the fifth inning off with a home run to break a 2-2 tie as the Pirates even the World Series at three games apiece.

• October 15 - Walter Johnson again took the mound for Game seven, and carried a 6–4 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning, but errors
  Error (baseball)
  In baseball statistics, an error is the act, in the judgment of the official scorer, of a fielder misplaying a ball in a manner that allows a batter or baserunner to reach one or more additional bases, when such an advance would have been prevented given ordinary effort by the fielder.The term ...
  
   by 1925 American League Most Valuable Player Roger Peckinpaugh in the seventh and eighth innings lead to four unearned run
  Earned run
  In baseball, an earned run is any run for which the pitcher is held accountable . Any runner who tags his base and reaches home plate is scored against the pitcher as an earned run...
  
  s, and the Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Washington Senators, 9-7. The Pirates become the first team in a best-of-seven Series to overcome a 3–1 Series deficit to win the World Championship
  World championship
  A world championship is the top achievement for any sport or contest. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the best nation, team, individual in the world in a particular field. Certain sports do not have a world championship, instead...
  
  .

• October 21 - Marv Goodwin
  Marv Goodwin
  Marvin Mardo Goodwin , was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from -. He would play for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds...
  
  , a former pitcher for the Washington Senators
  Minnesota Twins
  The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...
  
   and St. Louis Cardinals
  St. Louis Cardinals
  The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...
  
   who joined the Cincinnati Reds
  Cincinnati Reds
  The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....
  
   at the end of the season, is killed in a plane he was piloting. Goodwin was one of the original spitball
  Spitball
  A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of saliva, petroleum jelly, or some other foreign substance....
  
  ers whose method for getting batters out was grandfathered when that pitch was deemed illegal. At age 34, Goodwin becomes the first active Major League player to die from injuries sustained in an airplane crash.

January

• January   4 - Tom Gorman
  Tom Gorman (1950s pitcher)
  Thomas Aloysius Gorman was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played all or part of eight seasons in Major League Baseball, from until , for the New York Yankees and Kansas City Athletics....
  
  
• January 12 - Ed Stevens
  Ed Stevens (baseball)
  Edward Lee Stevens , nicknamed "Big Ed," is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball. He played from 1945-1950 with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was known as the player who lost his starting job with the Dodgers to Jackie Robinson .He was a coach for the San Diego Padres...
  
  
• January 17 - Hank Schmulbach
  Hank Schmulbach
  Henry Alrives "Hank" Schmulbach was an American Major League Baseball player who was used as a pinch runner for the St. Louis Browns for one game on September 27, .-External links:...
  
  
• January 19 - Alice Hohlmayer
  Alice Hohlmayer
  Alice Hohlmayer [Naughton] is a former first basewoman and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
  
  
• January 22 - Bobby Young
  Bobby Young
  Robert George Young was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles franchise....
  
  
• January 22 - Johnny Bucha
  Johnny Bucha
  John George Bucha was an American Major League Baseball catcher.Bucha made his Major League Baseball debut in 1948 with the St. Louis Cardinals. In 1952 he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the Rule 5 draft...
  
  
• January 30 - Brooks Lawrence
  Brooks Lawrence
  Brooks Ulysses Lawrence was a Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals , Cincinnati Redlegs , and Cincinnati Reds ....
  
  

February

• February   2 - Joe Szekely
  Joe Szekely
  Joseph Szekely was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder who played professionally for six seasons and who appeared in five Major League games for the Cincinnati Redlegs....
  
  
• February   3 - Harry Byrd
  Harry Byrd (baseball)
  Harry Gladwin Byrd was an American Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Athletics , New York Yankees , Baltimore Orioles , Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers...
  
  
• February   5 - Jack Maguire
  Jack Maguire
  Jack Maguire was a Major League Baseball player in St. Louis, Missouri – September 28, 2001. In 1950, he played for the New York Giants; in 1951 he played for the Giants, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the St. Louis Browns .-Sources:...
  
  
• February   8 - Milt Nielsen
  Milt Nielsen
  Milton Robert Nielsen was a Major League Baseball center fielder who played for two seasons. He played for the Cleveland Indians in 1949 and 1951, playing in 19 career games. After retiring from baseball he purchased a Chevrolet dealership in St. Peter, Minnesota. He is buried in Resurrection...
  
  
• February   9 - Vic Wertz
  Vic Wertz
  Victor Woodrow Wertz was a Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder. He had a seventeen year career from 1947 to 1963. He was signed as a free agent by the Detroit Tigers in 1942 and played for the Tigers, St...
  
  
• February 11 - Sara Reeser
  Sara Reeser
  Sara Louise Reeser is a former infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the and seasons. Listed at 5' 4", 130 lb., she batted and threw left handed....
  
  
• February 13 - Mike Palm
• February 14 - Buddy Lively
  Buddy Lively
  Everett Adrian Lively is a former professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of three seasons with the Cincinnati Reds...
  
  
• February 18 - Joe Lutz
  Joe Lutz
  Rollin Joseph "Joe" Lutz was an American professional baseball player and coach, who was the first Caucasian to manage a team in Japanese professional baseball.-Life:...
  
  
• February 22 - Bob Wilson
  Bob Wilson (baseball)
  Robert Wilson was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played in three games for the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 1958 season. In five at bats that season , he had just one hit.- Personal life :Bob Wilson was briefly married to Norma D...
  
  

March

• March   1 - Bob Usher
  Bob Usher
  Robert Royce Usher is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for six seasons. He played for the Cincinnati Reds from 1946 to 1947 and from 1950 to 1951. He also played for the Chicago Cubs in 1952, and the Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators in 1957.-References:...
  
  
• March   3 - George Eyrich
  George Eyrich
  George Lincoln Eyrich was a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1943. At 18 years of age, the 5'11", 175 lb. rookie was the fourth-youngest player to appear in a National League game that season.Eyrich is one of many ballplayers who only appeared...
  
  
• March 10 - Lou Limmer
  Lou Limmer
  Louis Limmer, known as Lou was a Major League Baseball player in 1951 and 1954 for the Philadelphia Athletics....
  
  
• March 13 - Ray Martin
  Ray Martin (baseball)
  Raymond Joseph Martin is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played three seasons with the Boston Braves in 1943 and 1947 to 1948.-External links:...
  
  
• March 18 - Fred Hatfield
  Fred Hatfield
  Fred James Hatfield , nicknamed "Scrap Iron", was a Major League Baseball infielder who played 9 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Boston Red Sox , Detroit Tigers , Chicago White Sox , Cleveland Indians , and Cincinnati Redlegs .Born in Lanett, Alabama, Hatfield signed by the Boston Red Sox as an...
  
  
• March 20 - Al Widmar
  Al Widmar
  Albert Joseph Widmar was an American starting pitcher and a pitching coach in Major League Baseball. Between 1945 and 1952, Widmar played for the Boston Red Sox , St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox . He batted and threw right-handed...
  
  
• March 24 - Dick Kryhoski
  Dick Kryhoski
  Richard David Kryhoski was a first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams between 1949 and 1955. Listed at 6' 2", 200 lb., Kryhoski batted and threw left-handed. He was born and raised in Leonia, New Jersey.Kryhoski attended at Upsala College in East Orange, New...
  
  

April

• April   6 - Hal Schacker
  Hal Schacker
  Harold Schacker is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in six games, all in relief, for the Boston Braves in 1945. At the age of 20, the 6'0", 190 lb...
  
  
• April 10 - Pete Milne
  Pete Milne
  William James "Pete" Milne was a professional baseball player. He played parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1948 until 1950, for the New York Giants, primarily as an outfielder...
  
  
• April 11 - Bob Spicer
  Bob Spicer
  Robert Oberton Spicer is a retired American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher and occasional outfielder, he had a highly successful 15-season minor league career but played only four games as a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball for the – Kansas City Athletics...
  
  
• April 16 - Alton Brown
  Alton Brown (baseball)
  Alton Leo "Deacon" Brown is a former right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for the Washington Senators in 1951....
  
  
• April 23 - Buddy Peterson
  Buddy Peterson
  Carl Francis "Buddy" Peterson was an American professional baseball player and manager who spent all but 13 games of his career at the minor league level...
  
  
• April 24 - Theda Marshall
  Theda Marshall
  Theda Marshall was a first basewoman who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 133 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• April 28 - Clarence Marshall
• April 30 - Marie Wegman
  Marie Wegman
  Marie Wegman was an utility infielder/outfielder and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 130 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  

May

• May   1 - Anna Mae Hutchison
  Anna Mae Hutchison
  Anna Mae Hutchison [Hutch] was a female pitcher and catcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 149 lb., she batted and threw right-handed...
  
  
• May   2 - Ralph Brickner
  Ralph Brickner
  Ralph Harold Brickner was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox in the 1952 season. Brickner batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio....
  
  
• May   5 - Johnny Rutherford
  Johnny Rutherford (baseball)
  John William Rutherford , is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent before the 1947 season, and played for them in 1952...
  
  
• May 12 - Yogi Berra
  Yogi Berra
  Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra is a former American Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder, and manager. He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career for the New York Yankees...
  
  
• May 14 - Sophie Kurys
  Sophie Kurys
  Sophie Kurys is a former second basewoman who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 115 lb., Kurys batted and threw right-handed.-Career:...
  
  
• May 14 - Les Moss
  Les Moss
  John Lester "Les" Moss is a former American professional baseball player, coach, scout and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the St...
  
  
• May 20 - Lee Griffeth
  Lee Griffeth
  Leon Clifford Griffeth was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. Listed at 5' 11", 180 lb., he was a switch-hitter and threw left-handed....
  
  
• May 25 - Don Liddle
  Don Liddle
  Donald Eugene Liddle was an American left-handed pitcher in professional baseball who played four seasons in the Major Leagues for the Milwaukee Braves, New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals from through...
  
  

June

• June   4 - Dick Aylward
  Dick Aylward
  Richard John Aylward was a Major League Baseball catcher who played for one season. He played for the Cleveland Indians for four games during the 1953 Cleveland Indians season.-External links:...
  
  
• June   8 - Del Ennis
  Del Ennis
  Delmer Ennis was an American left and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Philadelphia Phillies. From 1949 to 1957, Ennis accumulated more runs batted in than anyone besides Stan Musial and was 8th in the National League in home runs...
  
  
• June   8 - Eddie Gaedel
  Eddie Gaedel
  Edward Carl Gaedel was an American with dwarfism who became famous for participating in a Major League Baseball game....
  
  
• June   9 - Jim Pearce
  Jim Pearce (baseball)
  James Madison Pearce was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played parts of five seasons in the majors, between and , for the Washington Senators and Cincinnati Redlegs.-Sources:...
  
  
• June 14 - Fenton Mole
  Fenton Mole
  Fenton Le Roy "Muscles" Mole is a former Major League Baseball player. Mole played in ten games for the New York Yankees in the 1949 season. He had five hits in 27 at-bats, with a .185 batting average. Mole batted and threw left-handed.-References:* on Baseball-Reference.com...
  
  
• June 20 - Clem Koshorek
  Clem Koshorek
  Clement John Koshorek was an infielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates.-External links:...
  
  
• June 15 - Gene Baker
  Gene Baker
  Eugene Walter Baker was an American Major League Baseball player. A native of Davenport, Iowa, he primary played second base for the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was selected for the National League All Star game in 1955. He played eight seasons from 1953 to 1958 and 1960 to 1961,...
  
  
• June 24 - Jack Banta
  Jack Banta (baseball)
  Jackie Kay Banta was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1950....
  
  
• June 24 - Wally Yonamine
• June 27 - Wayne Terwilliger
  Wayne Terwilliger
  Willard Wayne "Twig" Terwilliger is a former second baseman, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball.-Early life:...
  
  
• June 29 - Bill Connelly
  Bill Connelly (baseball)
  William Wirt Connelly was a major league baseball pitcher who played in 1945, 1950, and 1952-53.He holds the career record for most extra-base hits with no singles, at four. Connelly had a 6-2 record with a 6.95 ERA. His biggest weakness was control; he issued 7.23 walks per nine innings...
  
  
• June 29 - Nippy Jones
  Nippy Jones
  Vernal Leroy Jones is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who won World Series rings with the St. Louis Cardinals in and the Milwaukee Braves in .-St. Louis Cardinals:...
  
  

July

• July   2 - Isaiah Harris
  Isaiah Harris
  Isaiah "Lefty" Harris was a pitcher in Negro League baseball. He played for the Memphis Red Sox in 1949 and 1950. In 1950, he went 9-4 with a 3.13 earned run average...
  
  
• July 18 - Windy McCall
  Windy McCall
  John William McCall is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1948 through 1957 for the Boston Red Sox , Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants . Listed at 6' 0", 180 lb., McCall batted and threw left-handed...
  
  
• July 21 - Earl Mossor
  Earl Mossor
  Earl Dalton Mossor was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in three games with the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1951 baseball season.-External links:...
  
  
• July 22 - Elise Harney
  Elise Harney
  Elise Harney [″Lee″] was a female pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed....
  
  
• July 25 - Bob Wellman
  Bob Wellman
  Robert Joseph Wellman was an American professional baseball player, manager and scout. He managed for a quarter-century in minor league baseball, winning more than 1,600 games — with his 1966 Spartanburg Phillies setting a Western Carolinas League record by ripping off a 29-game winning streak...
  
  
• July 26 - Jackie Mayo
  Jackie Mayo
  John Lewis Mayo is a former Major League Baseball player who played for the Philadelphia Phillies between 1948 and 1953. He was part of the team that won the National League pennant in 1950 and was regarded as one of the Philadelphia Whiz Kids...
  
  
• July 30 - Bill Glynn
  Bill Glynn
  William Vincent Glynn is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played four seasons of professional baseball for the Cleveland Indians and the Philadelphia Phillies....
  
  
• July 30 - Bill Moisan
  Bill Moisan
  William Joseph Moisan, Jr. was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Chicago Cubs during the season. Listed at 6' 1", 170 lb., he batted left-handed and threw right-handed....
  
  
• July 31 - Harry Malmberg
  Harry Malmberg
  Harry William Malmberg was an American second baseman and coach in Major League Baseball, and a longtime player and manager in minor league baseball...
  
  

August

• August   1 - Bobby Balcena
  Bobby Balcena
  Robert Rudolph Balcena was an outfielder in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Cincinnati Redlegs in . Balcena batted right-handed and threw left-handed. He was born in San Pedro, California.Balcena became the first player of Filipino ancestry to appear in a major league game...
  
  
• August   3 - Dave Hoskins
  Dave Hoskins
  David Taylor Hoskins was an American professional baseball player: a right-handed pitcher who appeared in 26 games for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball during the 1953 season and 14 games during the 1954 campaign....
  
  
• August   5 - Tony Jacobs
  Tony Jacobs
  Anthony Robert Jacobs was an American professional baseball player. The , right-handed pitcher appeared in two Major League Baseball games, one for the Chicago Cubs and one for the St. Louis Cardinals...
  
  
• August 15 - Ruth Lessing
  Ruth Lessing
  ----Ruth Elizabeth Lessing [Tex] was a female catcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 128 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• August 16 - Willie Jones
  Willie Jones (baseball)
  Willie Edward Jones , nicknamed "Puddin' Head", was a Major League Baseball third baseman who played for the Philadelphia Phillies , Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds...
  
  
• August 20 - Larry Miggins
  Larry Miggins
  Lawrence Edward Miggins [″Irish″] is a former outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in parts of the and seasons. Listed at 6' 4", 198 lb., Miggins batted and threw right handed...
  
  
• August 25 - Earle Brucker
  Earle Brucker, Jr.
  Earle Francis Brucker, Jr. was a professional baseball player. He played two games as a catcher in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1948. After playing several seasons in minor league baseball, including a brief stint in the Pacific Coast League in 1953, he retired from...
  
  
• August 26 - Billy DeMars
  Billy DeMars
  William Lester DeMars is a retired American shortstop and coach in Major League Baseball. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 5'10" tall and weighed 160 pounds during his playing career....
  
  
• August 28 - Johnny Pramesa
  Johnny Pramesa
  John Steven Pramesa was an American professional baseball player, a catcher in the Major Leagues from – for the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds. A native of Barton, Ohio, he threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed .Pramesa spent the full seasons of and as the Reds' second-string...
  
  
• August 30 - George Wilson
  George Wilson (baseball player)
  George Washington "Teddy" Wilson was an American professional baseball player. He was an outfielder over parts of 3 seasons with the Chicago White Sox, New York Giants and New York Yankees. Wilson was a member of the 1956 World Series champion Yankees...
  
  
• August 31 - Paul Hinrichs
  Paul Hinrichs
  Paul Edwin Hinrichs [Herky] is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1951 season. Listed at 6' 0", 180 lb., he batted and threw right-handed....
  
  

September

• September 12 - Stan Lopata
  Stan Lopata
  Stanley Edward Lopata was an American professional baseball player. Lopata played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for parts of 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Braves...
  
  
• September 18 - Harvey Haddix
  Harvey Haddix
  Harvey Haddix, Jr. was a Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who played with the St. Louis Cardinals , Philadelphia Phillies , Cincinnati Redlegs , Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles . Haddix was born in Medway, Ohio, located just outside of Springfield...
  
  
• September 24 - Wally Hood
  Wally Hood (pitcher)
  Wallace James Hood Jr. was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Hood played for the New York Yankees in . In 2 career games, he had a 0-0 record, with a 0.00 ERA, going 2.3 innings...
  
  
• September 26 - Bobby Shantz
  Bobby Shantz
  Robert Clayton Shantz was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics , Kansas City Athletics , New York Yankees , Pittsburgh Pirates , Houston Colt .45's , St...
  
  
• September 28 - Vince Gonzales
  Vince Gonzales
  Wenceslao Gonzales O'Reilly was a Cuban-born professional baseball player during the 1950s and 1960s. A left-handed pitcher who stood tall and weighed , Gonzales appeared in one Major League Baseball game in 1955 as a member of the Washington Senators.Gonzales entered pro baseball in 1951 as a...
  
  
• September 28 - Bill Jennings
  Bill Jennings (baseball)
  William Lee Jennings was a shortstop in Major League Baseball. Listed at 6' 2", 175 lb., he batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• September 28 - Carolyn Morris
  Carolyn Morris
  Carolyn E. Morris was a female pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 157 lb., Morris batted and threw right handed...
  
  
• September 29 - Tom Hamilton
  Tom Hamilton (baseball)
  Thomas Ball Hamilton was a Major League Baseball player who played in 1952 and 1953 for the Philadelphia Athletics. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed, and he was 6'4" tall and 213 pounds...
  
  

October

• October   3 - Chris Haughey
  Chris Haughey
  Christopher Francis Haughey is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in one game for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943. At 18 years of age, the 6'1", 180 lb...
  
  
• October   5 - Bobby Hofman
  Bobby Hofman
  Robert George Hofman was an American infielder, catcher and coach in Major League Baseball. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Hofman threw and batted right-handed, and stood 5'11" tall and weighed 175 pounds .Hofman's seven-year MLB playing career was spent entirely with the New York Giants...
  
  
• October   7 - Mildred Earp
  Mildred Earp
  Mildred Earp [Mid or Millie] is a former female pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 135 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• October   9 - Tommy Giordano
  Tommy Giordano
  Thomas Arthur Giordano is an American professional baseball front-office executive. In , in his 63rd season in organized baseball, he served as senior advisor to the general manager of the American League champion Texas Rangers.Giordano is also a former Major League Baseball infielder, scout, and...
  
  
• October 21 - Valmy Thomas
  Valmy Thomas
  Valmy Thomas was a Major League Baseball catcher. In his five-year career, he played for five different home cities: the New York Giants , the San Francisco Giants , the Philadelphia Phillies , the Baltimore Orioles , and the Cleveland Indians...
  
  
• October 25 - Roy Hartsfield
  Roy Hartsfield
  Roy Thomas Hartsfield was a second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball; his MLB playing and managing careers each lasted three years. Hartsfield played his entire major-league career with the Boston Braves from 1950 to 1952. He was then traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers for outfielder Andy...
  
  
• October 28 - Luis Márquez
  Luis A. Marquez
  Luis Ángel "Canena" Márquez Sánchez was a professional baseball player. He was the third Puerto Rican to play in Major League Baseball . Márquez played in a total of 68 games in the major leagues, split in two seasons between the Boston Braves, the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates...
  
  

November

• November   4 - Spook Jacobs
  Spook Jacobs
  Forrest Vandergrift "Spook" Jacobs was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1954 through 1956 for the Philadelphia Athletics , Kansas City Athletics , and Pittsburgh Pirates...
  
  
• November   6 - Bob Addis
  Bob Addis
  Robert Gordon Addis, , more commonly known as Bob Addis, was a Major League outfielder.-Career:...
  
  
• November   9 - Bill Bruton
  Bill Bruton
  William Havon Bruton was a Major League Baseball center fielder who played for the Milwaukee Braves in 1953 through 1960, and for the Detroit Tigers in 1961 through 64. Bruton batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
  
  
• November 10 - Hank Ruszkowski
  Hank Ruszkowski
  Henry Alexander Ruszkowski was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played in parts of three seasons for the Cleveland Indians . Listed at 6' 0", 190 lb., Ruszkowski batted and threw right handed...
  
  
• November 13 - Jim Delsing
  Jim Delsing
  James Henry Delsing was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who is most remembered for having been the pinch runner for -tall Eddie Gaedel on August 19,...
  
  
• November 13 - Betty Whiting
  Betty Whiting
  Elizabeth Jane Whiting was a utility who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5'6", 147 lb., Whiting batted and threw right handed...
  
  
• November 17 - Jean Faut
  Jean Faut
  Jean Anna Faut [Winsch/Eastman] is a former female starting pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 137 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• November 18 - Gene Mauch
  Gene Mauch
  Gene William Mauch was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers , Pittsburgh Pirates , Chicago Cubs , Boston Braves , St...
  
  
• November 19 - Chuck Comiskey
  Chuck Comiskey
  Charles Albert Comiskey II was part-owner of the Chicago White Sox from to . A native of Chicago, Comiskey was the grandson of the team's founder, Charles Comiskey....
  
  
• November 29 - Minnie Miñoso

December

• December   1 - Niles Jordan
  Niles Jordan
  Niles Chapman Jordan [Sonny] was a starting pitcher who played in Major League Baseball during the and seasons...
  
  
• December   1 - Cal McLish
  Cal McLish
  Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers , Pittsburgh Pirates , Chicago Cubs , Cleveland Indians , Cincinnati Reds , Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Phillies...
  
  
• December   3 - Harry Simpson
  Harry Simpson
  Harry Leon "Suitcase" Simpson was an African American outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for a number of teams. He played in the World Series with the New York Yankees in 1957, where they lost....
  
  
• December   6 - Rance Pless
  Rance Pless
  Rance Pless is a retired American professional baseball player. A third baseman, first baseman and outfielder over the course of a 14-year professional career, he played part of one season of Major League Baseball with the 1956 Kansas City Athletics...
  
  
• December   8 - Hank Thompson
• December 11 - Dick Hoover
  Dick Hoover (baseball)
  Richard Lloyd Hoover was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Braves during the 1952 season. Listed at 6' 0", 170 lb., he batted and threw left-handed....
  
  
• December 14 - Toothpick Sam Jones
  Sam Jones (baseball)
  Samuel Jones , known during his career as "Toothpick Sam" Jones or "Sad Sam" Jones, was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played from to ....
  
  
• December 21 – Dorothy Kamenshek
  Dorothy Kamenshek
  Dorothy "Dottie" Kamenshek was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. She batted and threw left-handed....
  
  
• December 21 - Kent Peterson
  Kent Peterson
  Kent Franklin Peterson was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played all or part of eight seasons in the majors, and -, for the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies. In , Peterson led the National League in hit batsmen with 6 despite pitching just 137 innings.-External links:* at Find a Grave...
  
  
• December 21 - Bob Rush
  Bob Rush (baseball)
  Robert Ransom Rush was a professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball from 1948-60.Rush played for the Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs, and the Chicago White Sox....
  
  
• December 23 - Ed Blake
  Ed Blake
  Edward James Blake was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played four seasons with the Cincinnati Reds and the Kansas City Athletics. In eight career games, Blake pitched 8⅔ innings and had a 8.31 earned run average .After graduating high school in East St. Louis, Blake...
  
  
• December 25 - Ned Garver
  Ned Garver
  Ned Franklin Garver was an American League pitcher playing from 1948 to 1961 winning 129 games in his major league career. Most of his career was spent playing for perennial second-division teams like the St. Louis Browns and Kansas City Athletics.In 1951, Garver fashioned an outstanding season....
  
  
• December 25 - Dorothy Mueller
  Dorothy Mueller
  Dorothy Mueller [Bajda] was a pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the and seasons. Listed at 5' 11", 160 lb., Mueller batted and threw right handed...
  
  
• December 29 -Joyce Hill
  Joyce Hill
  Joyce E. Hill [Westerman] is a former catcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 150 lb., she batted left handed and threw right handed....
  
  

January–February

• January   1 - Hank Simon
  Hank Simon
  Henry Joseph Simon was a Major League Baseball outfielder. He played two seasons in the majors, and , all in the American Association. In 1887, he played in three games for the Cleveland Blues, then in 1890 he split the season between the Brooklyn Gladiators and Syracuse Stars. Simon's minor...
  
  , 62, outfielder for the Cleveland Blues, Brooklyn Gladiators and Syracuse Stars of the American Association between the 1887 and 1890 seasons.

• January 16 - George Bignell
  George Bignell
  George William Bignell was a Major League Baseball player. He played four games for the Milwaukee Brewers of the Union Association in 1884.-Sources:...
  
  , 66, backup catcher for the 1884 Milwaukee Brewers of the Union Association.

• January 24 - Jim Mullin
  Jim Mullin (baseball)
  James Henry Mullin was an American Major League Baseball infielder. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the season and the Washington Senators during the and seasons.-References:...
  
  , 41, infielder who played from 1904 through 1905 for the Philadelphia Athletics and Washington Senators of the American League.

• January 25 - Cy Bowen
  Cy Bowen
  Sutherland McCoy "Cy" Bowen was a former professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher for one season with the New York Giants...
  
  , 63, pitcher for the 1896 New York Giants of the National League.

• February 15 - Duke Farrell
  Duke Farrell
  Charles Andrew Farrell was a 19th century Major League Baseball catcher. Born in Oakdale, Massachusetts, he played for eight teams during his 18 year career...
  
  , 58, durable catcher who caught 1565 games from 1888 to 1905 while playing with seven different teams, particularly for the 1903 Boston Americans, the champion team in the first World Series ever played, and also a four-time .300 hitter who led the American Association in home runs and runs batted in in 1891.

• February 18 - Charlie Dougherty
  Charlie Dougherty
  Charles William Dougherty was a major league baseball player for Altoona Mountain City in 1884. He was their second baseman, and he hit a .259 batting average.-Sources:...
  
  , 63, infielder/outfielder for the 1884 Altoona Mountain City of the Union Association.

• February 20 - John Mansell
  John Mansell
  John Mansell was a 19th-century Major League Baseball player. He played outfield for the 1882 Philadelphia Athletics in the American Association. His brothers Mike and Tom also played professional baseball.-External links:...
  
  , 66, outfielder for the 1882 Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association.

March–April

• March 4 - John Montgomery Ward
  John Montgomery Ward
  John Montgomery Ward , known as Monte Ward, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, shortstop and manager. Ward was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Renovo, Pennsylvania...
  
  , 65, Hall of Fame pitcher who posted 164-102 record and a 2.10 earned run average in 293 games, including 47 wins for 1879 champion Providence Grays and a perfect game
  Perfect game
  A perfect game is defined by Major League Baseball as a game in which a pitcher pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and in which no opposing player reaches base. Thus, the pitcher cannot allow any hits, walks, hit batsmen, or any opposing player to reach base safely for any...
  
   in 1880. He then became a shortstop, batting over .325 three times, to become the fifth player to reach the 2000 hit club. In addition, he organized the first players' union in 1888, and formed the Players League in 1890.

• March   7 - Caleb Johnson
  Caleb Johnson
  Caleb Clark Johnson was an American professional baseball player for the Cleveland Forest Citys during the 1871 season.-External links:...
  
  , 80, infielder/outfielder who played briefly for 1871 Cleveland Forest Citys of the National Association.

• March 21 - Harry Raymond
  Harry Raymond
  Harry H. Raymond , was a Major League Baseball player who played infielder from -. He would play for the Louisville Colonels, Washington Senators, and Pittsburgh Pirates.-External links:...
  
  , 63, infielder who played with the Louisville Colonels of the American Association (1888–1891) and for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Senators of the National League (1892).

• March 23 - Tom Evers
  Tom Evers
  Thomas Francis Evers was a professional baseball player who primarily played second base in the American Association for the 1882 Baltimore Orioles and for the 1884 Washington Nationals of the Union Association. He is the uncle of Johnny Evers and Joe Evers.-External links:...
  
  , 72, second baseman for the 1882 Baltimore Orioles of the American Association and the 1884 Washington Nationals of the Union Association.

• April 18 - Charles Ebbets
  Charles Ebbets
  Charles Hercules Ebbets, Sr. was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1902 to 1925.-Biography:...
  
  , 65, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers National League franchise since 1897.

• April 19 - Suter Sullivan
  Suter Sullivan
  Suter Grant Sullivan was an infielder in Major League Baseball from 1898 to 1899. He played for the St. Louis Browns and Cleveland Spiders.-External links:...
  
  , 52, infielder/outfielder who played from 1898 to 1899 for the Cleveland Spiders and Baltimore Orioles of the National League.

• April 23 - Ad Gumbert
  Ad Gumbert
  Addison Courtney Gumbert was a pitcher for Major League Baseball in the 19th century. His brother Billy Gumbert and great nephew Harry Gumbert were also Major League Baseball players.-Sources:...
  
  , 56, pitcher who collected a 123-102 record for the Chicago Cubs, Boston Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies from 1888 through 1896.

• April 27 - Fred Crane
  Fred Crane
  Frederic William Hotchkiss Crane played in Major League Baseball...
  
  , 84, first baseman for the Elizabeth Resolutes (1873) and the Brooklyn Atlantics (1875) of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

May–June

• May   9 - Ed Beatin
  Ed Beatin
  Ebenezer Ambrose Beatin , was a pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1887 to 1891.-Career:Beatin came to fame in 1887 - at the age of 20 - when he was playing for Allentown of the Pennsylvania State Association...
  
  , 58, National League pitcher for the Detroit Wolverines and Cleveland Spiders from 1887 to 1891, and a member of the 1887 champion Wolverines.

• May 10 - Tod Brynan
  Tod Brynan
  Charles Ruley "Tod" Brynan was a right-handed pitcher/outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Stockings and Boston Beaneaters ....
  
  , 61, National League pitcher/left fielder for the Chicago White Stockings (1888) and the Boston Beaneaters (1891).

• May 31 - Harry Deane
  Harry Deane
  John Henry "Harry" Deane was an American professional baseball player born in Trenton, New Jersey. He mostly played center field in his two season career in the National Association...
  
  , 79, National Association outfielder for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas (1871) and the Baltimore Canaries (1874), who also managed briefly the Fort Wayne team.

• June   5 - Sam Trott
  Sam Trott
  Samuel W. Trott was an American professional baseball player and manager who played eight seasons for the Boston Red Caps, Detroit Wolverines and Baltimore Orioles...
  
  , 66, National League catcher for the Boston Red Caps, Detroit Wolverines and Baltimore Orioles, who later managed the Washington Statesmen in 1891.

• June 26 - Sam Crane
  Sam Crane (second baseman)
  Samuel Newhall Crane was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Crane played for eight different major league teams during his seven year career that spanned from to...
  
  , 71, 19th century second baseman in seven seasons for the New York Metropolitans, Cincinnati Outlaw Reds, Detroit Wolverines, St. Louis Maroons, New York Giants and Pittsburgh Alleghenys, who also managed and later went on to a long career as a sportswriter.

July–August

• July 4 - George Derby
  George Derby (baseball)
  George Henry Derby was a former professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of three seasons with the Detroit Wolverines and Buffalo Bisons. He was the National League strikeout champion as a rookie in 1881 with Detroit...
  
  , 87, pitcher for the Detroit Wolverines (1881–1882) and Buffalo Bisons (1885) of the National League, who led the circuit for the most strikeouts in 1881.

• August   2 - Patrick T. Powers
  Patrick T. Powers
  Patrick T. Powers was an American baseball executive who served as president of the Eastern League and founding president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the minor leagues organization that celebrated its hundredth season in 2001...
  
  , 63, founder of the minor leagues' governing body and its first president from 1901 to 1909.

• August 14 - Asa Stratton
  Asa Stratton
  Asa Evans Stratton was a Major League Baseball shortstop, who played one game for the Worcester Ruby Legs on June 17, 1881. In that game, he had one hit in four at bats. He was born in Grafton, Massachusetts and died at the age of 72 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He is interred at Riverside...
  
  , 72, shortstop who played for the 1881 Worcester Ruby Legs.

• August 15 - Arthur Soden
  Arthur Soden
  Arthur H. Soden was an American executive in Major League Baseball who was the president/owner of the Boston Beaneaters of the National League and a Civil War veteran...
  
  , 80, owner of the National League's Boston Red Stockings/Beaneaters/Doves/Rustlers/Braves franchise from the 1870s to the 1900s, who became the league's president in 1882.

September–October

• September   5 - Emil Huhn
  Emil Huhn
  Emil Hugo "Hap" Huhn was a right-handed Major League Baseball first baseman and catcher who played for the Federal League's Newark Pepper in 1915 and for the Cincinnati Reds in 1916 and 1917...
  
  , 33, first baseman and catcher for the Federal League's Newark Pepper (1915) and the National League's Cincinnati Reds (1916–1917).

• September 11 - Pat Duff
  Pat Duff
  Patrick Henry Duff was an Irish American professional baseball player. Duff played one game in Major League Baseball, and in one at bat he didn't compile a hit...
  
  , 50, pinch-hitter for the 1906 Washington Senators of the American League.

• September 21 - Charlie Irwin
  Charlie Irwin
  Charles Edwin Irwin , is a former professional baseball player who played third base in the Major Leagues from 1893-1902. He would play for the Chicago Colts, Cincinnati Reds, and Brooklyn Superbas of the National League.Irwin died when he was hit by a bus in Chicago.-External links:...
  
  , 56, third baseman who played from 1893 through 1902 for the Chicago Colts, Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Superbas of the National League.

• September 22 - Dave Beadle
  Dave Beadle
  David A. Beadle , is a professional baseball player who played catcher and outfielder in one game in the Major Leagues for the 1884 Detroit Wolverines. He appeared in his game on June 17, 1884 and failed to get a hit in three at-bats...
  
  , 61, catcher/outfielder for the 1884 Detroit Wolverines of the National League.

• October   7 - Christy Mathewson
  Christy Mathewson
  Christopher "Christy" Mathewson , nicknamed "Big Six", "The Christian Gentleman", or "Matty", was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played his entire career in what is known as the dead-ball era...
  
  , 45, Hall of Fame pitcher for the New York Giants, whose 373 victories and a 2.13 earned run average included two no-hitters and thirteen 20-win seasons. Notably, Mathewson reached 30 wins four times and posted an ERA under 2.00 five times, including a National League record of 37 wins in 1908, while leading the circuit in ERA and strikeouts five times each; in wins and shutouts four times, setting league's career records for wins, strikeouts, games and shutout. Other of his highligths includes having pitched three shutouts in a six-day span to led the Giants to the 1905 World Series title.

• October 21 - Marv Goodwin
  Marv Goodwin
  Marvin Mardo Goodwin , was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from -. He would play for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds...
  
  , 34, former pitcher for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds between 1916 and 1925, and one of the original spitball
  Spitball
  A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of saliva, petroleum jelly, or some other foreign substance....
  
  ers who was grandfathered when that pitch was deemed illegal.

• October 19 - John Carney
  John Carney (baseball)
  John Joseph Carney , also known as Handsome Jack, was a professional baseball player in the late 19th century. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, United States in 1866, and made his debut with the Washington Nationals on April 24, 1889...
  
  , 58, National League first baseman for the Washington Nationals, Buffalo Bisons and Cleveland Infants from 1889 to 1890.

• October 28 - Willy Wilson
  Willy Wilson (baseball)
  William Wilson , was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues in 1906. He would play for the Washington Senators.-External links:...
  
  , 41, pitcher for the 1906 Washington Senators of the American League.

November–December

• November   1 - Roy Clark
  Roy Clark (baseball)
  Roy Elliott Clark was a outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Giants in 1902. He also went to college at Brown University.-External links:...
  
  , 51, backup outfielder for the 1902 New York Giants of the National League.

• November   1 - Billy Serad
  Billy Serad
  William I. Serad , was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from -. He would play for the Cincinnati Red Stockings and Buffalo Bisons....
  
  , 62, National League pitcher who played between 1884 and 1888 with the Buffalo Bisons and Cincinnati Red Stockings.

• November   3 - Sam Frock
  Sam Frock
  Samuel "Sam" William Frock was an American professional baseball player who played four Major league seasons between and .He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died there at the age of 42.-External links:...
  
  , 42, National League pitcher for the Boston Doves/Rustlers and Pittsburgh Pirates between 1907 and 1911.

• November   6 - Harvey McClellan
  Harvey McClellan
  Harvey McDowell McClellan was an American Major League Baseball infielder.McClellan started his professional baseball career in 1914. He played two years for the Lexington Colts of the Ohio State League, hitting below .200 both years.McClellan joined the Chicago White Sox in 1919...
  
  , 30, backup infielder for the Chicago White Sox from 1919 to 1924.

• November   7 - Sam Kimber
  Sam Kimber
  Samuel Jackson "Sam" Kimber was an American Major League Baseball player who pitched one full season, for the 1884 Brooklyn Atlantics of the American Association, and one game for the 1885 Providence Grays of the National League.Although his career was short, Sam did have one shining moment, on...
  
  , 73, pitcher for the 1884 Brooklyn Atlantics and the 1885 Providence Grays of the National League, who hurled a no-hitter
  No-hitter
  A no-hitter is a baseball game in which one team has no hits. In Major League Baseball, the team must be without hits during the entire game, and the game must be at least nine innings. A pitcher who prevents the opposing team from achieving a hit is said to have "thrown a no-hitter"...
  
   in his first season.

• November 20 - John Coleman
  John Coleman (1895 pitcher)
  Walter Lee Coleman was a left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the St. Louis Cardinals during the season....
  
  , 52, pitcher for the 1895 St. Louis Cardinals.

• November 23 - Henry Lynch
  Henry Lynch
  Henry W. Lynch was a professional baseball player. He played part of one season in Major League Baseball, appearing in four games for the Chicago Colts in 1893 as a right fielder.-References:...
  
  , 59, outfielder for the 1893 Chicago Colts of the National League.

• November 23 - Guerdon Whiteley
  Guerdon Whiteley
  Guerdon W. Whiteley was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for two seasons. He played for the Cleveland Blues in eight games during the 1884 Cleveland Blues season and for the Boston Beaneaters for 33 games during the 1885 Boston Beaneaters season. He continued to play in the minor...
  
  , 66, backup outfielder for the Cleveland Blues (1884) and the Boston Beaneaters (1885) of the National League.

• December 19 - Corty Maxwell
  Corty Maxwell
  Cortez "Corty" Maxwell was a professional baseball umpire.Maxwell umpired three National Association games in , as the home plate umpire. -References:...
  
  , 74, National Association umpire during the 1875 season.

• December 31 - Denny Sullivan, 67, third baseman for the Providence Grays 1879 National League champions and the 1880 Boston Red Caps.

• December 25 - Harry Kirsch
  Harry Kirsch
  Harry Louis Kirsch was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for one season. He pitched in two games for the Cleveland Naps during the 1910 Cleveland Naps season.-External links:...
  
  , 38, pitcher for the 1910 Cleveland Naps of the American League.