Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart of every University of Notre Dame alumni 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)
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# | MLB Player Name | Dates Played | Debut | Box |
1. | Willie McGill | 1892 - 1892 | 05-08-1890 |
2. | Doc Powers (Louisville & Holy Cross) | 1897 - 1898 | 06-12-1898 |
3. | Norwood Gibson | 1896 - 1900 | 04-29-1903 |
4. | John Walsh (Fordham) | 1901 - 1901 | 06-22-1903 |
5. | Peaches O'Neill | 1899 - 1902 | 04-16-1904 |
6. | Shag Shaughnessy | 1902 - 1904 | 04-17-1905 |
7. | Ed Reulbach (Vermont) | 1903 - 1904 | 05-16-1905 |
8. | Red Murray (Lock Haven) | 1906 - 1906 | 06-16-1906 |
9. | Red Morgan (Georgetown) | 1900 - 1901 | 06-20-1906 |
10. | Harry Curtis (Syracuse) | 1907 - 1907 | 08-28-1907 |
11. | Burt Keeley | 1899 - 1900 | 04-18-1908 |
12. | Jean Dubuc | 1907 - 1908 | 06-25-1908 |
13. | Ed McDonough | 1908 - 1909 | 08-03-1909 |
14. | Frank Scanlan | 1907 - 1909 | 08-06-1909 |
15. | Billy Burke | 1909 - 1909 | 04-30-1910 |
16. | Red Kelly | 1909 - 1910 | 06-18-1910 |
17. | Bert Daniels (Villanova & Bucknell) | 1908 - 1909 | 06-25-1910 |
18. | George Cutshaw | 1908 - 1908 | 04-25-1912 |
19. | Cy Williams | 1910 - 1912 | 07-18-1912 |
20. | Bill Lathrop | 1912 - 1913 | 07-29-1913 |
21. | Clem Clemens | 1910 - 1911 | 05-15-1914 |
22. | Herb Kelly | 1912 - 1914 | 09-25-1914 |
23. | Rupert Mills | 1913 - 1915 | 06-23-1915 |
24. | Al Bergman | 1914 - 1915 | 08-29-1916 |
25. | Pat Murray | 1917 - 1919 | 07-01-1919 |
26. | John Mohardt | 1919 - 1921 | 04-15-1922 |
27. | Paul Castner | 1921 - 1923 | 08-06-1923 |
28. | Red Smith | 1925 - 1927 | 05-31-1927 |
29. | Ed Walsh | 1926 - 1928 | 07-04-1928 |
30. | Billy Sullivan (Portland) | 1930 - 1931 | 06-09-1931 |
31. | Ed Lagger (Northwestern) | 1932 - 1932 | 06-15-1934 |
32. | Andy Pilney | 1934 - 1936 | 06-12-1936 |
33. | Ed Hanyzewski | 1939 - 1941 | 05-12-1942 |
34. | John McHale | 1943 - 1943 | 05-28-1943 |
35. | Jackie Mayo | 1944 - 1947 | 09-19-1948 |
36. | Bill Froats | 1949 - 1951 | 04-22-1955 |
37. | Tom Carroll | 1954 - 1954 | 05-07-1955 |
38. | Jim Brady | 1954 - 1955 | 05-12-1956 |
39. | Carl Yastrzemski | 1958 - 1958 | 04-11-1961 |
40. | Jim Hannan | 1958 - 1959 | 04-17-1962 |
41. | Frank Carpin | 1958 - 1958 | 05-25-1965 |
42. | Dick Rusteck | 1961 - 1963 | 06-10-1966 |
43. | Shaun Fitzmaurice | 1963 - 1964 | 09-09-1966 |
44. | Ron Reed | 1962 - 1965 | 09-26-1966 |
45. | Dick Thoenen | 1962 - 1962 | 09-16-1967 |
46. | Dan McGinn | 1963 - 1966 | 09-03-1968 |
47. | Dan Peltier | 1987 - 1989 | 06-26-1992 |
48. | Tommy Shields | 1984 - 1986 | 07-25-1992 |
49. | Craig Counsell | 1989 - 1992 | 09-17-1995 |
50. | Chris Michalak | 1990 - 1993 | 08-22-1998 |
51. | Christian Parker | 1995 - 1996 | 04-06-2001 |
52. | Brad Lidge | 1996 - 1998 | 04-26-2002 |
53. | Aaron Heilman | 1999 - 2001 | 06-26-2003 |
54. | Matt Macri | 2002 - 2004 | 05-24-2008 |
55. | Jeff Samardzija | 2004 - 2006 | 07-25-2008 |
56. | Jeff Manship | 2005 - 2006 | 08-15-2009 |
57. | John Axford | 2002 - 2005 | 09-15-2009 |
58. | Kyle Weiland | 2006 - 2008 | 07-10-2011 |
59. | David Phelps | 2006 - 2008 | 04-08-2012 |
60. | A.J. Pollock | 2007 - 2009 | 04-18-2012 |
61. | Trey Mancini | 2011 - 2013 | 09-20-2016 |
62. | Dan Slania | 2011 - 2013 | 06-30-2017 |
63. | Joe Hudson | 2010 - 2012 | 09-08-2018 |
64. | Cavan Biggio | 2014 - 2016 | 05-24-2019 |
65. | Brandon Bielak | 2015 - 2017 | 07-27-2020 |
66. | Peter Solomon | 2015 - 2017 | 04-18-2021 |
67. | Matt Vierling | 2016 - 2018 | 06-19-2021 |
68. | Sean Guenther | 2015 - 2017 | 08-04-2021 |
69. | Joe Boyle | 2018 - 2020 | 09-17-2023 |
# | MLB Player Name | Dates Played | Debut | Box |
Notre Dame MLB Players | Research by Baseball Almanac |
The University of Notre Dame baseball program started in 1870. 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 the first former Fighting Irish ballplayer to make it to the Major League level.
Did you know that there were sixty-nine former University of Notre Dame ballplayers, and twenty students (Cap Anson, Joe Blong, Bill Krieg, Count Campau, Bert Inks, Louis Sockalexis, Henry Thielman, Joe Birmingham, Tillie Shafer, Earle Mack, Alex McCarthy, Lou Nagelsen, Adrian Lynch, Tom Whelan, Yank Terry, Lou Bevil, Billy Reed, Paul Schramka, Duke Simpson, Bobby Keppel) who did not play baseball for the Irish, who made it to the majors? Send 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!