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

Yale University Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

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

"His (Ron Darling) season (1981) was probably the greatest a Yale player has ever had as far as both pitching and hitting go." - Yale University Coach Joe Benato in the Yale Herald (1999)

Yale College "Bulldogs" Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Edgar Smith	1882 - 1882	05-25-1883
Jack Jones	1882 - 1883	07-09-1883
Al Hubbard	1882 - 1883	09-13-1883
Bill Hutchison	1878 - 1881	06-10-1884
Bill Vinton	1884 - 1884	07-03-1884
Yale University "Bulldogs" Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Denny O'Neil^{(Holy Cross)}	1893 - 1893	06-18-1893
Yale Murphy	1890 - 1893	04-19-1894
Ed Buckingham	1892 - 1895	08-30-1895
Queenie O'Rourke^{(Holy Cross)}	1901 - 1901 & 1903 - 1903	08-15-1908
Barney Reilly	1904 - 1909	07-02-1909
Pete Falsey	1910 - 1914	07-16-1914
Spencer Pumpelly	1912 - 1917	07-11-1925
Bruce Caldwell^(Brown)	1927 - 1928	06-30-1928
Johnny Broaca	1932 - 1932	06-02-1934
Eddie Collins	1937 - 1939	07-04-1939
Joe Wood	1939 - 1941	05-01-1944
Frank Quinn	1945 - 1948	05-29-1949
Dick Manville	1945 - 1945	04-30-1950
Dick Tettelbach	1948 - 1950	09-25-1955
Bob Davis	1953 - 1955	07-26-1958
Ken MacKenzie	1955 - 1956	05-02-1960
Ron Darling	1979 - 1981	09-06-1983
Craig Breslow	2002 - 2002	07-23-2005
Ryan Lavarnway	2006 - 2007	08-18-2011
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Yale University M.L.B. Player Alumnus

The Yale University baseball program started in 1865 and Edgar Smith was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

Did you know that there are twenty-four former Yale players who made it to "the show"? Send corrections or updates to Baseball Almanac.

Frank Quinn was a Bulldog from 1945 through 1948 and during his tenure he set and still holds the following records: Most Innings Pitched in a Season (141.0 in 1948), Most Wins in a Season (11 in 1947 [tied with Ron Darling who had 11 in 1980]) and Most Strikeouts in a Season (149 in 1947).

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