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

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

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

"There's a certain amount of luck, and a certain amount of talent. If you put it all together, you can have a big year like I had in '46 (batting .353). When you see the ball dropping just inside the foul lines instead of just outside them, or when you see fielders just missing balls instead of just catching them, then you know that it's luck that helps your average." - Mickey Vernon

Villanova University "Wildcats" Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Red Donahue	1892 - 1895	05-08-1893
Barney McFadden	1893 - 1900	04-24-1901
Jack Hayden^{(Pennsyvania)}	1897 - 1898	04-26-1901
Mike O'Neill	1896 - 1901	09-20-1901
Paddy Greene	1894 - 1902	09-10-1902
Matt Broderick^(Niagara)	1897 - 1900	05-01-1903
Joe Cassidy	1901 - 1903	04-18-1904
Mickey Doolan⁽^Bucknell⁾	1899 - 1902	04-14-1905
Snake Deal	1898 - 1906	07-09-1906
Jim Stephens	1902 - 1906	04-11-1907
Tom Catterson	1903 - 1908	09-19-1908
Bunny Madden	1901 - 1909	06-03-1909
Bert Daniels^{(Notre Dame & Bucknell)}	1907 - 1907	06-25-1910
Ernie Lush^(Niagara)	1903 - 1907	07-20-1910
Joe Walsh	1905 - 1910	10-08-1910
Fred Sherry	1908 - 1910	04-25-1911
Mike Murphy	1907 - 1912	05-17-1912
Eddie Murphy	1910 - 1912	08-26-1912
Jimmie Savage	1902 - 1908	09-03-1912
Mike Loan	1912 - 1912	09-18-1912
Pat Kilhullen	1909 - 1914	06-10-1914
Fred Lear	1913 - 1915	06-07-1915
Vince Molyneaux^(Niagara)	1916 - 1917	07-05-1917
Mike Pasquella	1917 - 1919	07-09-1919
Nelson Greene	1919 - 1923	04-28-1924
Ed Cotter	1923 - 1926	06-12-1926
Joe Connell	1921 - 1926	06-15-1926
Al Smith	1922 - 1926	06-18-1926
Bill Dietrich	1929 - 1930	04-13-1933
Frank Skaff	1932 - 1935	09-11-1935
Ben Geraghty	1931 - 1935	04-17-1936
Swede Larsen^(Colgate)	1933 - 1933	06-17-1936
Ray Stoviak	1934 - 1938	06-05-1938
Nick Etten	1931 - 1932	09-08-1938
Mickey Vernon	1937 - 1937	07-08-1939
Jim Schelle	1936 - 1939	07-23-1939
Art Mahan	1933 - 1936	04-30-1940
Lennie Merullo^(Boston)	1936 - 1939	09-12-1941
Mike Garbark	1935 - 1938	04-18-1944
Frank Kreutzer	1959 - 1960	09-20-1962
Bruce Howard	1962 - 1962	09-04-1963
Steve Huntz	1963 - 1963	09-19-1967
Rafael Novoa	1986 - 1989	07-31-1990
Gary Scott	1987 - 1989	04-09-1991
Gene Schall	1989 - 1992	06-16-1995
Mike Neill	1989 - 1991	07-27-1998
Mike Porzio	1991 - 1993	07-09-1999
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Villanova University M.L.B. Player Alumnus

Villanova University's baseball program started in 1866 and Red Donahue was their first player to make it to the Major League level. Names that appear on the chart above in bold print are in the Villanova University Hall of Fame.

President Eisenhower's favorite player was Mickey Vernon. On Opening Day in 1954 Vernon hit a two-run, tenth-inning homer off the Yankees' Allie Reynolds to win the game for the Washington Senators. The President started to leave his seat and go on to the field to join the celebration, but was stopped by the Secret Service who brought Vernon to the President's box seat.

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