Baseball History on January 21

Major League Baseball Events on January 21 | Baseball Almanac

Baseball history on January 21, including a list of every Major League baseball player born on January 21, a list of every Major League baseball player who died on January 21, a list of every Major League baseball player who made their big league debut on January 21, and a list of every Major League baseball player whose final big league game was on January 21.
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Baseball History on January 21

Major League Baseball Events on January 21

1862Art Sunday1895Frank Bowes
1867Mike Tiernan1900Jim Rogers
1872Irv Waldron1947Jimmy Walsh
1873Frank West1949Russ Ennis
1879Snake Deal1953Jose Rodriguez
1880Emil Batch1959Hooks Wiltse
1881Arch McCarthy1965Bert Whaling
1885Benny Meyer1969Dick Terwilliger
1886Joe Benz1970Casper Asbjornson
1892Bernie Boland1970Harry Shriver
1895Ed Sperber1972Dick Loftus
1895Jimmy Zinn1974Claude Cooper
1898John Mohardt1975Pat Tobin
1899Lew Fonseca1979Sam Leslie
1900Willie Ludolph1980Clyde Barnhart
1905Larry Boerner1980Gene Rye
1906Glenn Chapman1982Al Lefevre
1909Bill Karlon1989Carl Furillo
1913Fern Bell1992Chuck Rowland
1914Blix Donnelly1993Charlie Gehringer
1921Ken Polivka1995Russ Bauers
1922Sam Mele1996Dan Monzon
1929Danny O'Connell1997Bill McWilliams
1937Bill Graham2004Johnny Blatnik
1939Norm Bass2005Corky Valentine
1940Rich Beck2010Bobby Bragan
1946Johnny Oates2010Hal Manders
1947Bob Reynolds2010Curt Motton
1947Bill Stein2012Cliff Chambers
1952Mike Krukow2012Troy Herriage
1955Dave Smith2014Tim Hosley
1955Mike Smithson2017Ken Wright
1959Ricky Adams2022Bill Harrington
1959Jose Uribe2024Steve Staggs
1960Andy Hawkins
1960Darryl Motley
1965Matt Stark
1966Chris Hammond
1968Keith Shepherd
1968Tom Urbani
1969Rusty Greer
1970Jeff McCurry
1971Johnny Guzman
1972Alan Benes
1976Jason Ryan
1976Ron Wright
1981Wilfredo Ledezma
1984Robert Ray
1987Brandon Crawford
1987Chase d'Arnaud
1987Jake Diekman
1987Roger Kieschnick
1987Josh Wall
1988Preston Claiborne
1988Josh Ravin
1990Jose Ramirez
1990Joe Wieland
1994Jake Cronenworth
1995Zach Plesac
1995Antonio Senzatela
1996Michel Baez
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Players Born on, Died on, Debut on, Finished on January 21

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Baseball history on January 21 includes a total of Major League baseball players born that day of the year, Major League baseball players who died on that date, baseball players who made their Major League debut on that date, and Major League baseball players who appeared in their final game that date.

On January 21 in Baseball History...

  • 1921 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis officially takes over as baseball's commissioner.
  • 1947 - A rule change that allows voting only for players after 1921 produces four new Hall of Famers: Carl Hubbell, Frank Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove, all former M.V.P.s and World Series winners. Hubbell, was forbidden by Ty Cobb to throw his screwball in Detroit's farm system, but he used it to win 253 games for the Giants. Frisch went to the World Series eight times and batted .316 over 19 seasons. Grove won 300 games, and his battery mate Cochrane retired with the highest lifetime batting average of any catcher.
  • 1953 - The Hall of Fame passes over Joe DiMaggio in his first year of eligibility and elects pitcher Dizzy Dean and outfielder Al Simmons to Cooperstown. Simmons, who drove in 100 runs in each of his first eleven major league seasons, was one of the most feared hitters of his time. The colorful Dean had a .644 career winning percentage and won 30 games in 1934.
  • 1960 - Stan Musial asks for, and receives, a pay cut from $100,000 to $80,000 a year. Musial says he was overpaid in 1957 and 1958, and his salary should be cut based on his 1959 performance.

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Bill James, on the same page of the same book we used at the top of this page, said, "But as I began to do research on the history of baseball (in order to discuss the players more intelligently) I began to feel that there was a history a baseball that had not been written at that time, a history of good and ordinary players, a history of being a fan, a history of games that meant something at the time but mean nothing now." To that end, I have created Baseball Almanac. A site to worship baseball. A site by a fan who is trying to tell the history of good and ordinary baseball players.