Georgia Institute of Technology Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

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

"Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that." - Nomar Garciaparra
Georgia School of Technology
"Yellow Jackets"

Major League Baseball Player Alumnus

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

Weldon Henley

1900 - 1901

04-23-1903

Tommy McMillan

1905 - 1906

08-19-1908

Ed Lafitte

1906 - 1907

04-16-1909

Del Pratt (Alabama)

1906 - 1907

04-11-1912

Erskine Mayer

1908 - 1909

09-04-1912

Bill Calhoun

1910 - 1911

04-24-1913

Scrappy Moore (Vanderbilt)

1913 - 1913

06-21-1917

Horace Allen

1918 - 1919

06-15-1919

Bobby Reeves

1924 - 1926

06-09-1926

Ed Crowley

1926 - 1927

06-21-1928

Tom Angley

1925 - 1927

04-23-1929

Red Barron

1919 - 1922

06-10-1929

Whit Wyatt

1927 - 1927

09-26-1929

Frank Waddey

1927 - 1928

04-16-1931

Joe Palmisano

1922 - 1925

05-31-1931

Bill Strickland

1930 - 1930

07-16-1937

Lew Carpenter

1933 - 1935

05-01-1943

Russ Lyon

1933 - 1933

04-21-1944

Jim Hearn

1940 - 1941

04-17-1947

Georgia Institute of Technology
"Yellow Jackets"

Major League Baseball Player Alumnus

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

Ray Blemker

1957 - 1959

07-03-1960

Bob Tillman (Middle Tennessee)

1957 - 1957

04-15-1962

Kevin Brown

1984 - 1986

09-30-1986

Scott Jordan

1982 - 1985

09-02-1988

Jim Poole

1985 - 1988

06-15-1990

Frank Bolick

1986 - 1987

04-05-1993

Darren Bragg

1988 - 1991

04-12-1994

Riccardo Ingram

1986 - 1987

06-26-1994

Doug Creek

1988 - 1991

09-17-1995

Nomar Garciaparra

1992 - 1994

08-31-1996

Brad Rigby

1992 - 1994

06-28-1997

Marc Pisciotta

1989 - 1991

06-30-1997

Jason Varitek

1991 - 1994

09-24-1997

Jay Payton

1992 - 1994

09-01-1998

Kris Wilson

1995 - 1997

07-28-2000

Dave Elder

1995 - 1997

07-24-2002

Cory Vance

1998 - 2000

09-21-2002

Mark Teixeira

1999 - 2001

04-01-2003

Matt Murton

2001 - 2002

07-08-2005

Kevin Cameron

2001 - 2001

04-05-2007

Micah Owings (Tulane)

2003 - 2004

04-06-2007

Eric Patterson

2002 - 2004

08-06-2007

Brandon Boggs

2002 - 2004

04-29-2008

Jason Perry

2000 - 2002

07-04-2008

Tyler Greene

2004 - 2005

04-30-2009

Matt Wieters 2005 - 2007 05-29-2009
Blake Wood 2004 - 2005 05-12-2010
Mike Nickeas 2002 - 2004 09-04-2010
Charlie Blackmon 2007 - 2008 06-07-2011
Derek Dietrich 2008 - 2010 05-08-2013

Brandon Cumpton

2008 - 2010

06-15-2013

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

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Georgia Institute of Technology M.L.B. Player Alumnus



The Georgia Tech baseball program started in 1895 and Weldon Henley was their first player to make it to the Major League level. Names that appear on the chart above in bold print are in the Georgia Institute of Technology Hall of Fame.

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Jason Varitek, who broke into the big leagues on September 24, 1997, holds or once held Georgia Institute of Technology school career records for most games played (two-hundred fifty three), most runs scored (two-hundred sixty-one), most hits (three-hundred fifty-one), most doubles (eighty-two), most runs batted in (two-hundred fifty-one) and most home runs (fifty-seven).

     

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