Four Different Leagues by Baseball Almanac

Ballplayers Who Played In Four Different Leagues

Each of the following Major League baseball players has played at least one game in four different major leagues. Chart Notes: The Player Name column links to the player's career stats. The Superscripted item next to their name is the total number of major league years played. The Debut column is the exact date of their first Major League game. The Position column is the position they played most often during their Major League career. The League columns are in order according to each individual player's career.

"(Lave) Cross was one of the most popular players in Philadelphia in the 1880s, 1890s and early 1900s, playing for five teams in that city in four different leagues. He was a valuable utility player for the Phillies in the 1890s before earning a starting job with St. Louis in 1898. After bouncing from one terrible team to another for three seasons, he arrived on Connie Mack's A's in 1901. As a starting third baseman for the next six seasons, Cross performed extremely well, especially considering they were his age 35-40 years." - TheBaseballPage.com

Four Different Leagues In Alphabetical Order
Player Name^(Years)	Debut	Position	League
Player Name^(Years)	Debut	Position	#1	#2	#3	#4
Jersey Bakely⁽⁶⁾	05-11-1883	P	AA	UA	NL	PL
Charlie Bastian⁽⁸⁾	08-18-1884	SS	UA	NL	PL	AA
Jim Brennan⁽⁵⁾	04-20-1884	C	UA	NL	AA	PL
Ed Crane⁽⁹⁾	04-17-1884	P	UA	NL	PL	AA
Lave Cross⁽²¹⁾	04-23-1887	3B	AA	PL	NL	AL
Hugh Duffy⁽¹⁷⁾	06-23-1888	OF	NL	PL	AA	AL
Fred Dunlap⁽¹²⁾	05-01-1880	2B	NL	UA	PL	AA
John Ewing⁽⁶⁾	06-18-1883	P	AA	UA	PL	NL
Duke Farrell⁽¹⁸⁾	04-21-1888	C	NL	PL	AA	AL
Frank Foreman⁽¹¹⁾	05-15-1884	P	UA	AA	NL	AL
Bill Hallman⁽¹⁴⁾	04-23-1888	2B	NL	PL	AA	AL
Dummy Hoy⁽¹⁴⁾	04-20-1888	OF	NL	PL	AA	AL
John Irwin⁽⁸⁾	05-31-1882	3B	NL	UA	AA	PL
Morgan Murphy⁽¹¹⁾	04-22-1890	C	PL	AA	NL	AL
Joe Quinn⁽¹⁷⁾	04-26-1884	2B	UA	NL	PL	AL
Yank Robinson⁽¹⁰⁾	04-24-1882	2B	NL	UA	AA	PL
Emmett Seery⁽⁹⁾	04-17-1884	OF	UA	NL	PL	AA
Mike Slattery⁽⁵⁾	04-17-1884	OF	UA	NL	PL	AA
Gus Weyhing⁽¹⁴⁾	05-02-1887	P	AA	PL	NL	AL
Player Name^(Years)	Debut	Position	#1	#2	#3	#4
Four League Players			League

The player who appeared in four different leagues with the longest major league career was Lave Cross who played for twenty-one seasons. The shortest was Jim Brennan & Mike Slattery who are tied with five seasons. The only Hall of Famer was Hugh Duffy.

Did any of these four league players set the record for most teams played for during a Major League career? How about the record for most teams played for during a single Major League season? Review these similar Tenure Records in our baseball records section.

A breakdown by primary position played of this truly unbreakable record follows: Five (5) pitchers, four (4) outfielders, four (4) second basemen, three (3) catchers, two (2) third baseman and one (1) shortstop.

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