July 28

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1890 - Giants' pitcher Mickey Welch beats the Pirates, 4-2, to become baseball's third 300-game winner. The 31-year old Brooklyn native will win only seven more games before ending his 13-year career next season.
1903 - Boston's Vic Willis outpitches Christy Mathewson to beat the Giants, 5-3. 3B Ed Gremminger solves Matty, banging out a single, double, home run and sacrifice to lead Boston.
1907 - The Reds take their third game in a row from the Giants, and winning pitcher Jake Weimer adds insult to injury with a swipe of home. An incensed John McGraw gets into a fight with a park security man and belts him. Police break it up and no arrests are made.
1908:
- Walter Johnson's (1-5) recuperation from his operation seems complete as he pitches 15 innings against the Browns with neither team scoring. Washington pulls out a 2 - 1 victory in the 16th as Johnson K's 15, the Big Train's highest strikeout total for his career. He will win 11 of his next 13 decisions.
- Hooks Wiltse and Vic Willis lock horns and the Giants and Pirates duel for 16 innings before the game is called, 2 - 2, because of darkness. Honus Wagner is 0-for-6 but drives home a run with a sacrifice fly.
1909 - Brooklyn's Jim Pastorius no-hits the Phillies until pinch-hitter Doc Martel laces a one-out triple in the 9th inning. Pastorius wins 4 - 0.
1911 - Charles "Victory" Faust shows up at the Giants' hotel in St. Louis asking for a tryout. Manager John McGraw observes the "pitcher," who obviously is no player, and carries him on the team as an unofficial mascot and good luck charm. But the Giants lose to the Cards today, 5 - 2, with the help of five errors. MC Graw will eventually let Faust pitch in a couple of meaningless games, after the pennant is secured.
1914 - The Red Sox acquire lefty Vean Gregg (9-3), a 20-game winner the past three years, from Cleveland for Adam Johnson, Fritz Coumbe, and catcher Ben Egan.
1917 - In a doubleheader at St. Louis, the Red Sox sweep, winning both games by 3 - 2 scores, the second in 11 innings. In the 20 innings, not one Red Sox batter strikes out. Another oddity is in game 2, as Ernie Shore is called out twice for interference when hit with a batted ball.
1922:
- The American League announces plans to erect a $100,000 monument to baseball in East Potomac Park, Washington. It never gets built.
- The Yanks move back into first when Sad Sam Jones beats Ray Kolp, 7 - 3. Kolp lasts just two innings before Bill Bayne takes over for the final seven and allows two runs. Ken Williams hits his 23rd homer but Whitey Witt counters with a 3-run home run.
1931 - The White Sox record an American League-record 12 hits in the 8th inning against the Yankees. They score 11 runs as Bob Fothergill homers and triples to win 14 - 12.
1934:
- The veteran Waite Hoyt stops Dizzy Dean's win streak at 10 with a 5 - 4 win in Pittsburgh.
- Chuck Dressen, who will win pennants in Brooklyn and manage 16 seasons in the ML, begins by replacing Bob O'Farrell at the helm for the Cincinnati Reds.
1935 - Ted Lyons ties a major-league record with two doubles in the same inning while beating the Browns 14 - 6.
1936:
- In the 6th inning of a 16 - 6 Yankee win in Detroit, the Tigers' Goose Goslin drives a ball in the gap in right center. RF Joe DiMaggio and CF Myril Hoag, in for a slumping Jake Powell, sprint for the ball and collide, the ball bounding by for an inside-the-park home run. Both players are knocked unconscious but appear unhurt: Dimag stays in though Hoag is replaced. Hoag will play tomorrow and collect a single, then collapse in his hotel room on the 30th with a brain clot. Hoag will be operated on successfully at Harper Hospital and will be out the rest of the season, but he'll return to play six more years. New York wins the game on 20 hits, scoring four runs in each of the first two innings, and three apiece in the 4th and 5th. Lou Gehrig's two doubles, single and home run number 31 with two aboard pace the visitors. Tommy Bridges is the loser while Johnny Murphy, who relieves Monte Pearson in the 4th, is credited with the win. George Selkirk adds a homer for the Yankees, who have now hit 122.
- Dolph Camilli's 9th inning homer, his second of the game, caps a 4-run rally as the Phillies top the visiting Cubs, 5 - 3. Reliever Larry French, who replaces Roy Henshaw in the 9th, loses after he gives up a single to Johnny Moore off the RF wall to tie, K's Chuck Klein and serves up the dinger to Dolph.
- Bill Dietrich makes his first start for the White Sox since being picked up on waivers and Chicago makes it easy with a 19 - 6 win over Philadelphia. Dietrich helps his own cause with four singles.
- Earl Averill raps his 18th and 19th homers of the year, off Earl Whitehill, as Cleveland beats the Senators, 6 - 4. Lloyd Brown is the winner, allowing 11 hits. Hal Trosky extends his hitting streak to 22 games, while Cleveland's Roy Weatherly sets an American League rookie record by hitting in his 20th consecutive game.
1940 - King Kong Keller clouts three home runs for the New York Yankees in a 10 - 9 win over Chicago in the first game of a doubleheader split.
1948 - Detroit's Dizzy Trout shuts out the Red Sox, 13 - 0, to stop Boston's win streak at 13 games. Hoot Evers paces the 18-hit attack with four hits.
1949:
- Detroit pitcher Dizzy Trout hits a ninth-inning grand slam against the Senators to help the Tigers to a victory.
- A 12-for-25 run raises Jackie Robinson's National League-leading batting average to .364. Jackie will tail off from that mark but will win the batting title at .342.
1950 - The Indians' Larry Doby, Al Rosen and Luke Easter connect for consecutive home runs in the 3rd in a 13 - 1 whipping of the Red Sox.
1951:
- The Giants go 7-0 at Crosley Field this year by defeating the Reds, 3 - 1. Willie Mays has his third homer in six days and Larry Jansen wins to go 15-2 against the Rhinelanders.
- P Russ Meyer hurls a 1 - 0 shutout over the Cubs, the fourth shutout in a row for the Phillies staff. Robin Roberts, Ken Johnson and Bubba Church pitched the earlier whitewashings.
- Charlie Gehringer succeeds Billy Evans as General Manager of the Detroit Tigers.
- Clyde Vollmer, who started the month on the bench, continues his explosive fireworks against the Indians. He singles in the tying run in the 15th and then in the 16th hits a grand slam off reliever Bob Feller for an 8 - 4 Red Sox win. The grand slam is the latest to be hit in a game in ML history. Mickey McDermott pitches all 16 innings for the Sox, striking out 15 and walking one.
1952 - Rogers Hornsby, after being fired by the St. Louis Browns, replaces another former Brownie manager, Luke Sewell, as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
1954 - Giants OF Dusty Rhodes hits three consecutive home runs at the Polo Grounds to back Johnny Antonelli's 10 - 0 whipping of St. Louis. It is Antonelli's 10th consecutive win. Willie Mays smacks his 36th homer, a 447 foot clout to LF.
1958 - For the sixth time in his career, Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate. New York beats the Athletics 14 - 7.
1959 - The White Sox take over first place for good by toppling the Yankees 4 - 3 behind P Billy Pierce. Al Smith, with a 2-run home run in the 8th, provides the winning margin. The Sox will go 13-9 against the Yankees this year, the first time since 1925 that Chicago is over .500 for the season against the Bombers.
1960:
- With relief help from Bobby Shantz, Whitey Ford, who leaves with an upset stomach, picks up a 4 - 0 win over the Indians. Tony Kubek, Mickey Mantle and Clete Boyer homer for the Yanks. The pinstripers sweep, winning the nitecap, 9 - 2, and take over 1st place by three percentage points.
- The Red Sox, losers of nine straight to the White Sox, beat Chicago 4 - 2, knocking the Pale Hose out of 1st. Boston OF Gary Geiger, who homered yesterday against Chicago, suffers a collapsed lung and is out for the rest of the season.
1961 - The Yanks buy 1B Bob Hale from Cleveland. This will make vet Earl Torgeson, signed on June 17, expendable. They'll release Torgy as a player in early September and sign him as a coach.
1962:
- After mysteriously disappearing off the team bus in New York two days ago with teammate Gene Conley to use the rest room, prodigal infielder Pumpsie Green returns to the Red Sox and is fined.
- On Old Timers Day at Yankee Stadium, White Sox knuckleballer Eddie Fisher loses a 3 - 0 shutout when he surrenders 7th inning homers to Mickey Mantle and Johnny Blanchard and loses, 4 - 3.
1963:
- Chicago's Dick Ellsworth strikes out 10 Cardinals, including Stan Musial three times, in a 5 - 1 win.
- The Mets' 8 - 2 loss at Houston is their 22nd straight away from the Polo Grounds, and matches the major-league record set by the 1890 Pirates.
1964 - The Angels' Jim Fregosi hits for the cycle to assure a 3 - 1 win over the Yankees. New York's only score is a Mickey Mantle homer over the CF fence at Chavez Ravine, one of only two hits off Dean Chance. It's the first homer given up by Chance in 69 innings.
1965:
- The Reds' Sammy Ellis outpitches Sandy Koufax, as he beats the Dodgers, 4 - 1, striking out 12 batters.
- RF Tony Conigliaro suffers a broken left wrist when hit by a Wes Stock pitch in a 6 - 0 Boston win. He will miss 24 games.
1966 - Rick Reichardt, California's young hitting star, is sidelined with a kidney ailment. He will have a kidney removed in two weeks.
1968:
- Dave McNally outduels Mickey Lolich to give Baltimore a much-needed win over the Tigers, 5 - 1.
- Ken Holtzman and the Cubs beat the Dodgers' Don Sutton, 1 - 0. It is Sutton's second straight 1 - 0 loss to Chicago; he is now 0-10 against the Cubs, and Holtzman will top him the next three times they face each other.
- At Shea Stadium, Reds P Jim Maloney and Clay Carroll combine on a one-hit, 5 - 3, victory. Maloney gives up a run-scoring double to Cleon Jones in the first inning and then is lifted in the 6th after walking three batters. Carroll gives up two run-scoring grounders, but pitches four hitless frames.
1970:
- It's a tough day for Angels C Tom Egan as he is charged with five passed balls, all with different pitchers. To make matters worse, the California backstop also commits an error allowing the winning run to score in a 6 - 5 loss to the Yankees.
- Donn Clendenon sets a club record by driving in seven runs as the Mets beat the Giants, 12 - 2. A sacrifice fly and a pair of 3-run homers does it. Jim McAndrew is the winner.
1971 - Orioles 3B Brooks Robinson, a sixteen-time gold glove winner, commits three errors. Thanks to Frank Robinson's ninth inning three-run walk-off home run off Rollie Fingers, the Orioles prevail and beat the A's, 3 - 2.
1972 - Steve Carlton wins his 10th straight for the last-place Phils, beating the Cubs' Milt Pappas, 2 - 0. Lefty allows four hits and strikes out 7, while setting the club record for consecutive wins.
1973:
- Tony Perez makes his 4th hit of the game a good one, homering in the 10th to beat the Padres, 2 - 1. Don Gullett, in relief of Tom Hall, is the winner over Randy Jones.
- The Kansas City Royals blow out the Oakland A's, 19 - 8, with Aurelio Monteagudo picking up the win. A defensive moment is provided by A's CF Billy North, who makes an unassisted double play.
1974 - The Reds whip the Padres, 14 - 1, at Riverfront Stadium.
1976 - White Sox pitchers Blue Moon Odom (5 innings) and Francisco Barrios (4 innings) combine to no-hit the A's, 2 - 1. It is Odom's last ML victory.
1977:
- Toronto peppers Gaylord Perry for 11 hits, but the Texas hurler still shuts them out, 3 - 0.
- In New York, a Thursday crowd of 40,918 cheer as New York unleashes a 15-hit attack to down the Orioles, 14 - 2. The Yankee barrage includes homers by Graig Nettles, Thurman Munson and Roy White.
- In a wild one at Wrigley Field, the first-place Cubs (6) and Reds (5) combine for 11 home runs to tie the ML record. The Cubs come back four times to win 16 - 15 in 13 innings in a contest that goes 4 hours and 50 minutes. The Reds lead 6 - 0 to start, beginning with Pete Rose's leadoff home run, and lead 15 - 14 near the finish, but Dave Rosello's RBI single off Jack Billingham wins the game. Rick Reuschel wins his 15th game, and second in two days, pitching just 2/3 of an inning. Going deep are Bill Buckner (2), Bobby Murcer, George Mitterwald (2, including one in the 12th inning) and Jerry Morales for Chicago; Rose, Johnny Bench, Ken Griffey, Mike Lum and Cesar Geronimo homer for the Reds.
1978 - The Orioles' Rich Dauer has his 10th straight game with at least two hits in each. In his streak, which began on July 18, Dauer hit .583 (28-for-48). Dauer's mark is a club record.
1979:
- At Texas, the Boston Red Sox pull off a first-inning triple play - 9-4-3 - against the Rangers. It's Boston's 3rd triple play of the year (July 23 and May 10) tying a major-league record, and it's needed as the Sox win, 1 - 0. Dennis Eckersley beats Fergie Jenkins.
- The Cubs' Dave Kingman continues his slugging with a single and three consecutive home runs during a 6 - 4 loss to the Mets. Kingman ties two records by having his second 3-homer game of the season (May 17th) and hitting five home runs over two consecutive games.
1980 - At Montreal, the Expos beat the Reds, 5 - 4, with Fred Norman getting the win over Mario Soto. Ron LeFlore of the Expos steals his 62nd base in the 7th inning and the Montreal scoreboard notes that the first stolen base was 115 years earlier. As LeFlore stands off base reading the message, he is tagged out.
1982:
- After a 3 - 2 loss to the Brewers, Rangers manager Don Zimmer is fired and replaced by Darrell Johnson. During the 1976 season, Zimmer had replaced Johnson as manager of the Boston Red Sox.
- Atlanta's Phil Niekro (10-3) posts his 250th career win, 8 - 6 over the Padres. The 43-year-old knuckleballer will finish the season 17-4, leading the major leagues in winning percentage.
1983 - American League president Lee MacPhail decides George Brett's 'Pine Tar' home run should count. The remainder of the game will played on August 18 with the Royals beating the Yankees, 5 - 4.
1985:
- Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, Arky Vaughan and Hoyt Wilhelm are inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Cooperstown, New York. Wilhelm is the first pitcher to be inducted because of his role as a relief pitcher.
- Darrell Porter drives in three runs with a double and homer to lead the Cards to a 4 - 2 win over the Padres. LaMarr Hoyt loses after winning 11 straight.
- Darrell Evans hits his 300th career home run, off Ken Schrom, to lead Detroit to a 3 - 2 win over the Twins.
1987 - Montreal's Jeff Reed makes three errors in the 7th inning of an 8 - 3 loss to the Cubs, tying the major-league record for catchers.
1989 - Vince Coleman's major league recording-setting consecutive stolen base streak ends at 50 as Expos backstop Nelson Santovenia nails him trying to swipe second base. The Cardinal speedster surpassed the previous record of 38 established by Davey Lopes of the Dodgers in 1975.
1990:
- Cubs SS Shawon Dunston ties a major-league record with three triples in a 10 - 7 win over the Expos. Shawon also drives in five runs.
- Cal Ripken's errorless streak ends at 95 consecutive games, as Baltimore loses to Kansas City 10 - 9. The streak is a new major-league record for a shortstop, eclipsing Kevin Elster's 89-game mark.
- With one out to go, the Giants' Scott Garrelts loses a no-hitter when the Reds' Paul O'Neill singles. Garrelts finishes with a 4 - 0 one-hit win.
1991 - Dennis Martinez of the Expos tosses the 13th perfect game in major league history (excluding those of Harvey Haddix and Ernie Shore), setting down all 27 Dodgers to face him in a 2 - 0 win. Martinez strikes out five in the contest. C Ron Hassey becomes the first receiver to catch two perfectos, having been behind the plate for the Indians' Len Barker's masterpiece in 1981. Dodger infielder Alfredo Griffin goes 0-for-3 against Martinez, to go along with his 0-for-3 in Tom Browning's perfect game in 1988, and 0-for-2 in Barker's perfecto in 1981.
1992 - In the Mets' 8 - 6 win over the Phils, Howard Johnson suffers a hairline fracture of his wrist. He'll go on the disabled list on August 3 and miss the rest of the season.
1993:
- Darren Daulton belts a grand slam and a two-run triple as the Phils pound the Cards, 14 - 6. Dave Hollins drives in three runs as well for the Quakers.
- The Mets defeat the Marlins, 5 - 4, as Anthony Young takes the win in relief, ending his 27-game losing streak.
- Detroit 3B Travis Fryman strokes five safeties as he hits for the cycle in the Tigers' 12 - 7 loss to the Yankees. He is the first Tiger to cycle in 43 years.
- Seattle's Ken Griffey homers for the 8th consecutive game, tying the major league mark set by Dale Long and tied by Don Mattingly. The Mariners lose to the Twins, however, 5 - 1.
1994:
- Texas P Kenny Rogers hurls a perfect game, defeating the Angels, 4 - 0. Rogers fans eight in the 11th regular season perfect game of the 20th Century. He becomes the first left-hander in American League history to toss a perfecto and the 14th pitcher in history.
- The Players Association executive board approves of August 12 as the date for a strike.
1995:
- The Yankees get P David Cone from the Blue Jays in a trade for minor league pitchers Marty Janzen, Jason Jarvis and Mike Gordon. The team also trades OF-DH Danny Tartabull to the Athletics for OF-DH Ruben Sierra and minor league P Jason Beverlin.
- The Orioles acquire 3B-OF Bobby Bonilla and a player to be named later from the Mets in exchange for OF Alex Ochoa and Damon Buford.
- With baseball's new speed-up rules in place, the Cubs dispose of the Phillies 4 - 0 in a brisk 2:29. Cubs' P Frank Castillo says, "It wasn't the rule about throwing a pitch in 12 seconds since I usually throw in five seconds."
1996:
- Darryl Strawberry's 300th career home run, a 2-run shot in the 9th, lifts the Yankees to a 3 - 2 win over the visiting Royals. The Yankees now lead by 12 games.
- Padres C John Flaherty has his 27-game hitting streak stopped by the Marlins in the Padres' 8 - 2 win. The streak is the second-longest ever by a catcher behind Benito Santiago's record, also set with the Padres.
1997 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Milwaukee P Steve Woodard, recalled just that morning, hurls eight innings of one-hit ball to defeat the Blue Jays, 1 - 0. Mike Fetters tosses a hitless 9th for the Brewers. Toronto's only hit is a double by CF Otis Nixon.
1998:
- I like it so much, I'll do it again. After setting the record yesterday for hitting the most home runs before getting a grand slam, Sammy Sosa hits his second in four at bats in the Cubs' 7 - 5 loss to the Diamondbacks. Sosa is the first Cub to hit grand slams in consecutive games, and just the 18th player in history.
- Twins 2B Todd Walker ties a club record with his 9th consecutive hit, in a 3 - 0 victory over KC. He also matches a club record by reaching base safely 11 straight times. Walker's batting average is now up to .352.
1999 - The Blue Jays obtain 1B David Segui from the Mariners in exchange for P Tom Davey and Steve Sinclair. Segui's refusal of the Mariners' 3-year, $17 million offer prompted the trade. Segui will settle for a one-year arbitrated contract with the Jays.
2000:
- The Mets pick up All-Star SS Mike Bordick from the Orioles for IF/OF Melvin Mora, C Mike Kinkade, and P Lesli Brea and Pat Gorman. New York then picks up OF Bubba Trammell and P Rick White from the Devil Rays for light-hitting OF Jason Tyner and P Paul Wilson.
- The Athletics obtain P Jim Mecir and Todd Belitz from the Devil Rays in exchange for P Jesus Colome and a player to be named later. Mecir will fill in for the slumping Jason Isringhausen.
- Unable to win in four months, David Cone is sent to the team's minor league camp in Tampa by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. The struggling veteran will be under the supervision of Billy Connors, the Yankees vice president of player personnel.
- The Indians obtain P Bob Wickman, Steve Woodard, and Jason Bere from the Brewers in exchange for slugging 1B Richie Sexson, P Paul Rigdon and Kane Davis, and a player to be named later. The Indians keep trading, bringing back OF Wil Cordero from the Pirates for prospects IF Enrique Wilson and OF Alex Ramirez, both of whom will wind up as busts for Pittsburgh. The Tribe had declined to re-sign Cordero after last season and he upped with the Bucs for three years. The Indians then pick up slick-fielding 1B David Segui from the Rangers for OF Ricky Ledee.
2001:
- Orioles OF Melvin Mora's wife, Gisel, gives birth to quintuplets. The three boys and two girls, who all weigh in under two and half pounds, are all doing well.
- In a day-night doubleheader, Vinny Castilla of the Houston Astros becomes the 13th player this season to hit three home runs in a game when he does it against Pittsburgh, but the Pirates still edge the Astros, 9 - 8, with an amazing comeback. Pittsburgh becomes only the second team in National League history to win a game by scoring seven runs starting with two outs and nobody on base in the 9th inning. Brian Giles caps the scoring with a walk-off grand slam off Astros ace closer Billy Wagner to win it. The Cubs did it, against the Reds, in the first game of a doubleheader on June 29, 1952.
- The Twins get P Todd Jones from the Tigers in exchange for P Mark Redman.
2002:
- The Indians send P Paul Shuey to the Dodgers. In return, the Tribe gets P Terry Mulholland and minor league pitchers Ricardo Rodriguez and Francisco Cruceta.
- During his induction speech at the Hall of Fame ceremonies in Cooperstown, with the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow playing in the background and a copy of The Wizard of Oz in his hands, Ozzie Smith compares his baseball career to Dorothy's away trip from Kansas. Citing the recipe for his success during his 19-year career with the Cardinals and Padres, the 47-year-old tells the crowd he had the mind to dream, which the Scarecrow cherished, a heart to believe, which the Tin Man wanted, and courage, which the Lion lacked, in order to persevere.
- The Giants trade two minor league pitchers, right-hander Felix Diaz and left-hander Ryan Meaux, to obtain veteran CF Kenny Lofton from the White Sox.
- Oakland scores eight runs in the 9th inning to complete its 12 - 2 win over Texas.
2005 - The Blue Jays play the longest game in franchise history, innings-wise, an 18-inning marathon against the Angels at Rogers Centre. The Jays win 2 - 1, after nearly five hours of play, when Orlando Hudson hits a line drive past a drawn-in infield, scoring Alex Rios from third base.
2007 - One home run away from tying Hank Aaron's all-time MLB record, Barry Bonds goes 0 for 3 with a walk against the Marlins' Dontrelle Willis in a 4 - 3 win by the Giants.
2008:
- The Angels, with the top record in baseball, defeat one of baseball's best pitchers, Daisuke Matsuzaka, who entered the game with a record of 11-1, 7 - 5 over Boston. Home runs by Casey Kotchman and Torii Hunter are the big blows. In a losing cause, Manny Ramirez homers for the 20th time this season and becomes the 8th MLB player in history with 14 straight 20-homer seasons. Three days later, Ramirez will be traded.
- The Astros beat Cincinnati, 5 - 4. Roy Oswalt, fresh off the disabled list, improves to 20-1 against the Reds. Through today's game, this is the record for a pitcher with 20+ decisions versus one team.
2009 - In his first start since throwing a perfect game on July 23, Mark Buehrle retires the first 17 batters he faces to set a new ML mark of 45 consecutive batters retired. The previous mark of 41 was set by Jim Barr in 1972 and tied by Buehrle's teammate Bobby Jenks in 2007. The Twins still manage to beat the White Sox, 5 - 3.

[edit] Births

1865 - Bob Wood, catcher (d. 1943)
1867 - Bill Day, pitcher (d. 1923)
1868 - Duke Esper, pitcher (d. 1910)
1877 - Willie Garoni, pitcher (d. 1914)
1886 - Hank Perry, outfielder (d. 1956)
1887 - George Daly, pitcher (d. 1957)
1890 - Elmer Miller, outfielder (d. 1944)
1891 - Joe Mathes, infielder (d. 1978)
1893 - Bullet Rogan, Negro League pitcher/outfielder and manager;Hall of Fame (d. 1967)
1894 - John Glaiser, pitcher (d. 1959)
1898 - Paul McCullough, pitcher (d. 1970)
1901 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, pitcher, manager (d. 1979)
1903 - George Gerken, outfielder (d. 1977)
1906 - Ray Dobens, pitcher (d. 1980)
1909 - Morrie Silver, minor league executive (d. 1974)
1911 - Joe Martin, infielder (d. 1960)
1918 - Harold Graff, minor league catcher (d. 1990)
1921 - Ben Steiner, infielder (d. 1988)
1928 - Harry Dalton, general manager (d. 2005)
1930 - Ted Lepcio, infielder
1931 - Gus Keriazakos, pitcher (d. 1996)
1931 - Bill Sharp, infielder (d. 2004)
1934 - Masaaki Koyama, NPB pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
1935 - Ernie Bowman, infielder
1942 - Marty Brennaman, broadcaster
1943 - Dick Simpson, outfielder
1943 - Ron Theobald, infielder
1949 - Vida Blue, pitcher; All-Star
1953 - Rick Duncan, minor league infielder
1953 - Jerry Maddox, infielder
1953 - Mark Williams, outfielder
1954 - Wayne Krivsky, general manager
1960 - Carmelo Martinez, outfielder
1964 - Scott Johnson, minor league outfielder
1964 - Bob Milacki, pitcher
1964 - Terry Taylor, pitcher
1966 - Derek Lee, outfielder
1970 - Joe Urso, minor league infielder and college coach
1975 - Chad Paronto, pitcher
1980 - Cristhian Presichi, minor league outfielder
1982 - Yoshiyuki Kamei, NPB outfielder
1982 - Jose M. Rodriguez, minor league infielder
1984 - Kyu-jin Yun, KBO pitcher
1985 - Henry Sosa, minor league pitcher
1986 - Matt Vance, Bundesliga infielder
1987 - Jae-kyun Hwang, KBO infielder
1988 - Alessio Angelucci, minor league pitcher
1989 - Petr Zýma, Extraliga player