Princeton University Baseball Players Who Made it to a Major League Baseball Team

Princeton University Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

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

"In spite of his academic and intellectual accomplishments, Moe Berg chose a career as an athlete for his love of baseball. Biographers and historians have hypothesized that Berg's entire career as a professional baseball player was merely an elaborate cover for his second occupation as a spy for the United States." - NOVA Online (Atomic Spies)

College of New Jersey "Tigers" Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Leonidas Lee	1877 - 1878	07-17-1877
Dan Bickham	1884 - 1886	08-13-1886
Woody Wagenhorst	1882 - 1888	06-25-1888
Princeton University "Tigers" Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Homer Hillebrand	1900 - 1900	04-24-1905
Dutch Meier	1900 - 1902	05-12-1906
Bobby Vaughn	1904 - 1909	06-12-1909
Fred Winchell	1901 - 1909	09-16-1909
Bill Cooney	1903 - 1909	09-22-1909
Hy Gunning	1908 - 1911	08-08-1911
Roger Salmon	1912 - 1912	05-03-1912
Steve White	1909 - 1912	05-29-1912
Dutch Sterrett	1908 - 1912	06-20-1912
King Lear	1910 - 1913	05-02-1914
Ted Reed^(Dartmouth)	1912 - 1913	09-10-1915
Duke Kelleher	1913 - 1916	08-18-1916
Tom McNamara	1919 - 1922	04-25-1922
Waddy MacPhee	1919 - 1922	09-27-1922
Moe Berg	1921 - 1923	06-27-1923
Charlie Caldwell	1921 - 1925	07-07-1925
Roy Talcott	1941 - 1943	06-24-1943
John Easton	1953 - 1955	06-19-1955
Dave Sisler	1951 - 1952	04-21-1956
Bob Tufts	1975 - 1977	08-10-1981
Chris Young	2000 - 2000	08-24-2004
Russ Ohlendorf	2002 - 2004	09-11-2007
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Princeton University M.L.B. Player Alumnus

Princeton University's baseball program was their first varsity sport and it started in November 1864. Thirteen years later, Leonidas Lee became their first player to make it to the big leagues.

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Princeton University was one of the two teams in the first ever televised baseball game. It was played on May 17, 1938 at Columbia University's Baker Field. Princeton won the single-camera NBC broadcast 2-1 while fans watched live and listened to Bill Stern call the game. Source: Princeton University Media Guide (2004).

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