List of First Major League Baseball Players by Country

From BR Bullpen

The following is a list of the first Major League Baseball player from each country that has produced a player. Listed are the country, player, debut year of the player, and total number of players from that country to play in the MLB through the 2007 season.

For the first players signed by a MLB team to a contract from various countries, see the List of first players to sign with a MLB team from different countries.

Nation	Player	Debut Year	Total Players
Afghanistan	Jeff Bronkey	1993	1
American Samoa	Tony Solaita	1968	1
Aruba	Gene Kingsale	1996	4
Australia	Joe Quinn	1884	19
Austria	Kurt Krieger	1949	1
Austria-Hungary	Frank Rooney	1914	1
Bahamas	Andre Rodgers	1957	5
Belgium	Brian Lesher	1996	1
British Honduras	Chito Martinez	1991	1
Canada	Tom Smith	1875	205
Canary Islands	Al Cabrera	1913	1
China	Harry Kingman	1914	1
Colombia	Luis Castro	1902	7
Cuba	Steve Bellan	1871	152
Curaçao	Hensley Meulens	1989	5
Czechoslovakia	Amos Cross	1885	4
Dominican Republic	Ozzie Virgil	1956	410
Denmark	Olaf Henriksen	1911	1
England	George Hall/Harry Wright	1871	32
Finland	John Michaelson	1921	1
France	Larry Ressler	1875	8
Germany	David Lenz/Marty Swandell	1872	29
Greece	Al Campanis	1943	1
Honduras	Gerald Young	1987	1
Indonesia	Tom Mastny	2006	1
Ireland	Andy Leonard	1871	41
Italy	Lou Polli	1932	6
Jamaica	Chili Davis	1981	3
Japan	Masanori Murakami	1964	32
Mexico	Mel Almada	1933	98
the Netherlands	Rynie Wolters	1871	7
Nicaragua	Dennis Martinez	1976	8
Norway	John Anderson	1894	3
Okinawa	Bobby Fenwick	1972	1
Puerto Rico	Hi Bithorn	1942	215
Panama	Humberto Robinson	1955	45
the Philippines	Bobby Chouinard	1996	1
Poland	Henry Peploski	1929	4
Russia	Jake Gettman	1897	5
Saudi Arabia	Craig Stansberry	2007	1
Scotland	Jim McCormick	1878	8
Singapore	Robin Jennings	1996	1
South Korea	Chan Ho Park	1994	12
South Vietnam	Danny Graves	1996	1
Spain	Bryan Oelkers	1983	3
Sweden	Charlie Hallstrom	1885	4
Switzerland	Otto Hess	1902	1
Taiwan	Chin-Feng Chen	2002	4
Ukraine	Bill Cristall	1901	3
United States	Bobby Mathews	1871	14580
United States Virgin Islands*	Joe Christopher	1959	10
Venezuela	Alex Carrasquel	1939	181
West Germany	Rob Belloir	1975	13
Wales	Peter Morris	1884	3

• - Valmy Thomas was born in Puerto Rico because there was better hospital care there, but his parents were from the Virgin Islands and returned there right after his birth. He preceded Joe Christopher to the majors.