UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME BASEBALL PLAYERS

MLB Players Who Played Collegiately at the University of Notre Dame | Baseball Almanac

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.

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Major League Baseball Player Alumni

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
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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!