University of Iowa Baseball Players Who Made it to a Major League Baseball Team

University of Iowa Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

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

"This is very special, a very special day. One is the privilege of having been in a Texas Ranger uniform and having pride in that before there was probably reason to have pride in it. It's an honor to be in the first class (of Rangers inducted into a team Hall of Fame." - Jim Sundberg on MLB.com (July 30, 2003)

State University of Iowa "Hawkeyes" Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Cap Anson	DNP	05-06-1876
Maury Kent	1904 - 1907	04-15-1912
Art Reinhart	1918 - 1918	04-26-1919
Frank Mulroney	1927 - 1928	04-15-1920
Vance McIlree	1919 - 1920	09-13-1921
Wattie Holm	1922 - 1922	04-15-1924
Bill McWilliams	DNP	07-08-1931
Joe Mowry	1929 - 1931	05-13-1933
Mace Brown	1926 - 1929	05-21-1935
Gene Ford	1933 - 1935	06-17-1936
Carl Miles^(Missouri)	DNP	06-08-1940
Hal Manders	1937 - 1937	08-12-1941
Len Schulte	1932 - 1934	09-27-1944
Jack Bruner	1946 - 1949	09-16-1949
Joe Lutz	DNP	04-17-1951
Jack Dittmer	1947 - 1950	06-17-1952
Jim McAndrew	1963 - 1963 & 1965 - 1965	07-21-1968
Bill Burbach	DNP	04-11-1969
Bob Gebhard	1963 - 1965	08-02-1971
University of Iowa "Hawkeyes" Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Jim Cox	1970 - 1971	07-19-1973
Jim Sundberg	1970 - 1972	04-04-1974
Mike Boddicker	1976 - 1977	10-04-1980
Jeff Jones	1977 - 1979	04-04-1983
Cal Eldred	1987 - 1989	09-24-1991
Tim Costo	1988 - 1990	09-18-1992
Chris Hatcher	1988 - 1990	09-06-1998
Bo Porter	1993 - 1995	05-09-1999
Wes Obermueller	1997 - 1999	09-20-2002
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
University of Iowa M.L.B. Player Alumnus

The University of Iowa baseball program started in 1890 and Gus Thompson was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

The University of Iowa chose its school colors in 1887 when fifty (50) seniors met on the steps of the Old Capitol. When all was said and done, their colors became Old Gold, the color of Iowa's corn fields - and Black, the color of the soil itself.

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