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

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

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

"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it." - Carl Yastrzemski (Source: etched on walls above lockers in Boston Red Sox spring training stadium)

University of Notre Dame "Fighting Irish" Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Willie McGill	1892 - 1892	05-08-1890
Cap Anson	DNP	05-06-1876
Joe Blong	DNP	05-11-1876
Bill Krieg	DNP	04-20-1884
Count Campau	DNP	07-07-1888
Bert Inks	DNP	09-02-1891
Louis Sockalexis^{(Holy Cross)}	DNP	04-22-1897
Doc Powers^{(Louisville & Holy Cross)}	1897 - 1898	06-12-1898
Henry Thielman^(Manhattan)	DNP	04-17-1902
Norwood Gibson	1896 - 1900	04-29-1903
John Walsh^(Fordham)	1901 - 1901	06-22-1903
Peaches O'Neill	1899 - 1902	04-16-1904
Shag Shaughnessy	1902 - 1904	04-17-1905
Ed Reulbach^(Vermont)	1903 - 1904	05-16-1905
Red Murray^{(Lock Haven)}	1906 - 1906	06-16-1906
Red Morgan^(Georgetown)	1900 - 1901	06-20-1906
Joe Birmingham^(Cornell)	DNP	09-12-1906
Harry Curtis^(Syracuse)	1907 - 1907	08-28-1907
Burt Keeley	1899 - 1900	04-18-1908
Jean Dubuc	1907 - 1908	06-25-1908
Tillie Shafer^{(Loyola Marymount)}	DNP	04-24-1909
Ed McDonough	1908 - 1909	08-03-1909
Frank Scanlan	1907 - 1909	08-06-1909
Billy Burke	1909 - 1909	04-30-1910
Red Kelly	1909 - 1910	06-18-1910
Bert Daniels^{(Villanova & Bucknell)}	1908 - 1909	06-25-1910
Earle Mack^(Niagara)	DNP	10-05-1910
Alex McCarthy	DNP	10-07-1910
George Cutshaw	1908 - 1908	04-25-1912
Cy Williams	1910 - 1912	07-18-1912
Lou Nagelsen	DNP	09-10-1912
Bill Lathrop	1912 - 1913	07-29-1913
Clem Clemens	1910 - 1911	05-15-1914
Herb Kelly	1912 - 1914	09-25-1914
Rupert Mills	1913 - 1915	06-23-1915
Al Bergman	1914 - 1915	08-29-1916
Pat Murray	1917 - 1919	07-01-1919
Adrian Lynch	DNP	08-04-1920
Tom Whelan^{(Georgetown & Dartmouth)}	DNP	08-13-1920
John Mohardt	1919 - 1921	04-15-1922
Paul Castner	1921 - 1923	08-06-1923
Red Smith	1925 - 1927	05-31-1927
Ed Walsh	1926 - 1928	07-04-1928
Billy Sullivan^(Portland)	1930 - 1931	06-09-1931
Ed Lagger^{(Northwestern)}	1932 - 1932	06-15-1934
Andy Pilney	1934 - 1936	06-12-1936
Yank Terry	DNP	08-03-1940
Ed Hanyzewski	1939 - 1941	05-12-1942
Lou Bevil	DNP	09-02-1942
John McHale	1943 - 1943	05-28-1943
Jackie Mayo	1944 - 1947	09-19-1948
Billy Reed^{(St. Norbert's)}	DNP	04-15-1952
Paul Schramka^{(San Francisco)}	DNP	04-14-1953
Duke Simpson^{(Ohio State)}	DNP	05-06-1953
Bill Froats	1949 - 1951	04-22-1955
Tom Carroll	1954 - 1954	05-07-1955
Jim Brady	1954 - 1955	05-12-1956
Carl Yastrzemski	1958 - 1958	04-11-1961
Jim Hannan	1958 - 1959	04-17-1962
Frank Carpin	1958 - 1958	05-25-1965
Dick Rusteck	1961 - 1963	06-10-1966
Shaun Fitzmaurice	1963 - 1964	09-09-1966
Ron Reed	1962 - 1965	09-26-1966
Dick Thoenen	1962 - 1962	09-16-1967
Dan McGinn	1963 - 1966	09-03-1968
Dan Peltier	1987 - 1989	06-26-1992
Tommy Shields	1984 - 1986	07-25-1992
Craig Counsell	1989 - 1992	09-17-1995
Chris Michalak	1990 - 1993	08-22-1998
Christian Parker	1995 - 1996	04-06-2001
Brad Lidge	1996 - 1998	04-26-2002
Aaron Heilman	1999 - 2001	06-26-2003
Bobby Keppel	DNP	05-25-2006
Matt Macri	2002 - 2004	05-24-2008
Jeff Samardzija	2004 - 2006	07-25-2008
Jeff Manship	2005 - 2006	08-15-2009
John Axford	2002 - 2005	09-15-2009
Kyle Weiland	2006 - 2008	07-10-2011
David Phelps	2006 - 2008	04-08-2012
A.J. Pollock	2007 - 2009	04-18-2012
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
University of Notre Dame M.L.B. Player Alumnus DNP = Did Not Play (Baseball)

The University of Notre Dame baseball program started in 1870 and Willie McGill, who at the age of sixteen pitched the Fighting Irish's very first collegiate game (but was not actually student at the school!), was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

Did you know that there are sixty former University of Notre Dame players who made it to the show? Send corrections or updates to Baseball Almanac.

Notre Dame alumnus have truly played an important part in baseball history: Arch Ward founded the All-Star Game & Bert Dunne invented the batting tee.

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