College of the Holy Cross Baseball Players Who Made it to a Major League Baseball Team

College of the Holy Cross Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart of every College of the Holy Cross alumnus who played baseball at College of the Holy Cross AND made it to the Major League level.

"The right fielder has to be very careful when a fight breaks out and the benches empty. He's always got his back to the enemy bullpen." - Mike Hegan (1969)

College of the Holy Cross "Crusaders" Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Tim Murnane	1868 - 1870	04-26-1876
Denny Sullivan^(Boston)	1878 - 1879	08-25-1879
Ed Conley	1883 - 1884	07-20-1884
Tom Gunning^{(Boston & Pennsylvania)}	1881 - 1884	07-26-1884
Jimmy Ryan^(Boston)	1881 - 1885	10-08-1885
John Keefe	1886 - 1889	04-28-1890
Tom Cahill^{(Pennsylvania)}	1885 - 1888	04-09-1891
Bill Merritt	1889 - 1891	08-08-1891
Jimmy Bannon	1892 - 1893	06-15-1893
John Stafford	1890 - 1893	06-15-1893
Denny O'Neil^(Yale)	1889 - 1892	06-18-1893
Jack McCarthy	1891 - 1893	08-03-1893
Tom Smith^(Fordham)	1891 - 1892	06-06-1894
Louis Sockalexis^{(Notre Dame)}	1895 - 1896	04-22-1897
Tom Leahy	1891 - 1893	05-18-1897
John Pappalau	1895 - 1897	06-09-1897
Bill Fox	1895 - 1897	08-20-1897
Doc Powers^{(Louisville & Notre Dame)}	1894 - 1897	06-12-1898
Doc Curley^{(Massachusetts & Virginia)}	1894 - 1898	09-12-1899
Mike Hickey	1890 - 1893	09-14-1899
Pat Carney	1898 - 1901	09-20-1901
Rube Ward	1899 - 1901	04-28-1902
Andy Coakley	1901 - 1903	09-17-1902
Conny McGeehan	1901 - 1903	07-15-1903
Pete Noonan	1900 - 1904	06-20-1904
Tom Stankard	1901 - 1904	07-02-1904
Jack Hoey	1904 - 1906	06-27-1906
Bill Carrigan	1904 - 1906	07-07-1906
Jack Barry	1906 - 1907	07-13-1908
Queenie O'Rourke^(Yale)	1904 - 1905	08-15-1908
Doc McMahon	1906 - 1908	10-06-1908
Ed Larkin^(Lehigh)	1905 - 1906	10-02-1909
John Flynn	1904 - 1906	04-22-1910
Hugh Bradley	1905 - 1907	04-25-1910
Kip Dowd	1907 - 1910	07-05-1910
Danny Mahoney	1908 - 1911	05-15-1911
Andy Harrington^(Boston)	1908 - 1912	09-08-1913
Doc Carroll	1912 - 1916	06-27-1916
Bill Murray^(Brown)	1913 - 1917	06-27-1917
Joe Dugan	1916 - 1917	07-05-1917
Ed Gill	1916 - 1919	07-05-1919
Jigger Statz	1917 - 1919	07-30-1919
Rosy Ryan	1917 - 1919	09-07-1919
Chick Bowen	1916 - 1919	09-15-1919
Chick Gagnon	1919 - 1922	06-27-1922
Freddie Maguire	1919 - 1922	09-22-1922
Haddie Gill	1920 - 1923	08-16-1923
Ownie Carroll	1922 - 1925	06-20-1925
Doc Gautreau	1922 - 1925	06-22-1925
Pete Cote	1923 - 1926	06-18-1926
John Freeman	1924 - 1926	06-17-1927
Ray Dobens	1926 - 1929	07-07-1929
Bots Nekola	1929 - 1929	07-19-1929
Gene Desautels	1928 - 1930	06-22-1930
Jimmy Shevlin	1928 - 1930	06-29-1930
Blondy Ryan	1927 - 1930	07-13-1930
Hank Garrity	1929 - 1931	07-26-1931
Jo-Jo Morrissey	1924 - 1926	04-12-1932
Bob Friedrichs	1929 - 1931	05-17-1932
Tom Padden	1925 - 1927	05-29-1932
Joe Mulligan	1932 - 1934	06-28-1934
Al Niemiec	1931 - 1933	09-19-1934
Ed Moriarty	1933 - 1935	06-21-1935
Eddie Wilson	1928 - 1936	06-21-1936
Bob Daughters	1935 - 1936	04-24-1937
Bill Lefebvre	1936 - 1938	06-10-1938
Art Kenney	1936 - 1938	07-01-1938
Pinky Woods	1940 - 1941	06-20-1943
Bill Mills	1940 - 1944	05-19-1944
Pete Naton	1951 - 1953	06-16-1953
Gordon Massa	1954 - 1957	09-24-1957
Bill Spanswick	1956 - 1958	04-18-1964
Mike Hegan	1961 - 1961	09-13-1964
Dick Joyce	1963 - 1964	09-03-1965
Pat Bourque	1968 - 1969	09-06-1971
Mike Pazik	1970 - 1971	05-11-1975
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
College of the Holy Cross M.L.B. Player Alumnus

The College of the Holy Cross baseball program started in 1843 and Tim Murnane was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

Did you know that there are seventy-six (76) former College of the Holy Cross players who made it to "the show"? Send corrections or updates to Baseball Almanac.

The Holy Cross Crusaders team color is royal purple, their home games are played on Fitton Field, they do not have any team-specific Hall of Fame, and twelve (12) of their players also played college ball at a different school.

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