Baseball History on April 11

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Baseball history on April 11, including a list of every Major League baseball player born on April 11, a list of every Major League baseball player who died on April 11, a list of every Major League baseball player who made their big league debut on April 11, and a list of every Major League baseball player whose final big league game was on April 11.
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Baseball History on April 11

Major League Baseball Events on April 11

1858Pop Corkhill1904Shorty Fuller
1862Henry Zeiher1930Wayland Dean
1875Win Clark1934Charles Moran
1875Ossee Schreckengost1935Charlie Gettig
1876Win Kellum1942Norm McNeil
1880George Grossart1943Tom Knowlson
1882Bill McCarthy1944Jack Dunleavy
1886Al Nixon1949Joe Buskey
1892Ray Gordinier1950Dick McCabe
1892Red Smith1953Kid Nichols
1893Hal Deviney1965Sam Fishburn
1893Spencer Pumpelly1965Bobby Vaughn
1895Ralph Sharman1969Al Kaiser
1900John Middleton1970Joe Heving
1904Dutch Ussat1970Johnny Meador
1916Joe Antolick1970Sailor Stroud
1916Sam Chapman1971Bert Brenner
1917Barney McCosky1973Clarence Blethen
1919Hank Schenz1974Bob Baird
1921Jim Hearn1979Eddie Wilson
1923Scott Cary1983Mike Menosky
1925Bob Spicer1984Leo Dixon
1927Jack Faszholz1991Walker Cooper
1937Art Quirk1997Milt Smith
1940Dick Wantz1999Pete Milne
1945Mike Kilkenny2013Grady Hatton
1951Sid Monge2014Bill Henry
1954Willie Royster2014Don Robertson
1956John Martin2019Scott Sanderson
1958Jeff Calhoun
1962Tim Fortugno
1964Amalio Carreno
1964Bret Saberhagen
1964Wally Whitehurst
1965Turner Ward
1966Steve Scarsone
1970Sean Bergman
1970Joe Vitiello
1972Robin Jennings
1972Bobby Jones
1972Jason Varitek
1974Trot Nixon
1975Todd Dunwoody
1976Kelvim Escobar
1978Josh Hancock
1980Mark Teixeira
1983Zack Segovia
1984Andres Blanco
1984Alejandro De Aza
1986Russ Canzler
1986Charlie Furbush
1988Pete Kozma
1988Kenta Maeda
1988Chris McGuiness
1988Ryan Schimpf
1989José Cisnero
1995Cavan Biggio
1996Alex Vesia
1997Ricardo Sanchez
1891John Doran 1891Nick Reeder
1891Clark Griffith 1912Eddie Dent
1891Nick Reeder 1928Frank Bennett
1907Goat Anderson 1984Jerry Augustine
1907Bobby Byrne 1988Jessie Reid
1907John Kane 1990Howard Hilton
1907John Kelly 1990Steve Lombardozzi
1907Art Kruger 1992Luis Quinones
1907Mike Mitchell 1997Mark Gubicza
1907Nig Perrine 1997Roberto Mejia
1907Jim Stephens 1998Josh Booty
1912Wally Mattick 1999Guillermo Garcia
1912Tex McDonald 2002Fernando Lunar
1912Del Pratt 2004Bobby Jones
1912Buddy Ryan 2005Benito Santiago
1912Ossie Vitt 2006Jeff Harris
1912Buck Weaver 2008Buck Coats
1913Joe Berger 2008Clay Timpner
1913Hugh High 2010Hayden Penn
1913Henri Rondeau 2013Hisanori Takahashi
1915Clint Rogge 2015Matt Tracy
1917Johnny Couch 2016Logan Kensing
1917Bob Jones 2016Hector Olivera
1917Fred Nicholson
1917Swede Risberg
1917Ben Shaw
1917Jack Snyder
1917Chuck Ward
1928Les Bartholomew
1928Del Bissonette
1928Otis Brannan
1928Bill Cissell
1928Paul Easterling
1928Ed Morgan
1928Buck Redfern
1928Bill Shores
1928Glenn Spencer
1928Pinky Whitney
1955Bob Alexander
1955Don Ferrarese
1955Glen Gorbous
1955Bobby Kline
1955Don Leppert
1955Rudy Minarcin
1955Ernie Oravetz
1955Pedro Ramos
1955Hal Smith
1955Gale Wade
1959George Altman
1959Jim Baxes
1959Ernie Broglio
1959Howie Nunn
1961Jim Donohue
1961Tom Haller
1961Chuck Hiller
1961Dick Howser
1961John Papa
1961Chuck Schilling
1961Carl Warwick
1961Jake Wood
1961Carl Yastrzemski
1962Ed Charles
1962Manny Jimenez
1962Bob Moorhead
1962Dan Osinski
1962Ron Taylor
1963Conrad Cardinal
1963Pedro Gonzalez
1963Chris Zachary
1967Rod Carew
1967Gus Gil
1967Ramon Hernandez
1967Allan Lewis
1967Jim Price
1967Joe Rudi
1967Don Shaw
1967Ray Webster
1968Jack Billingham
1968Dave Nelson
1968Vicente Romo
1968Carl Taylor
1968Jon Warden
1969Bill Burbach
1969Darrel Chaney
1969Billy Conigliaro
1969Jerry DaVanon
1969Dick Drago
1969Mike Kilkenny
1969Clay Kirby
1969Carl Morton
1969Don Secrist
1969Tom Tischinski
1969Charlie Walters
1970Jim Campbell
1970Sam Parrilla
1970Milt Ramirez
1971Terry Forster
1971Ernie McAnally
1971Bob O'Brien
1974Stan Papi
1975Rodney Scott
1976Pat Zachry
1977Dave Rozema
1978Andy Replogle
1979Eric Wilkins
1980Joe Charboneau
1980Bob Detherage
1980Jerry Dybzinski
1980Steve Howe
1980Dave Smith
1981Danny Boone
1981Darrell Brown
1981Bryan Clark
1981Marshall Edwards
1981Mike Witt
1982Salome Barojas
1982Mike Moore
1983Dann Bilardello
1984Alvin Davis
1984John Gibbons
1984Jerry Willard
1985Terry Blocker
1985Mike Gallego
1985Craig Gerber
1985Jeff Kaiser
1985Roger McDowell
1986Jeff Parrett
1986Dan Plesac
1986Bob Tewksbury
1987Les Straker
1987Matt Williams
1990Willie Blair
1990Mike Bordick
1990Eric Gunderson
1991Heathcliff Slocumb
1991Joe Slusarski
1992Miguel Batista
1992Peter Hoy
1992Andy Stankiewicz
1993Graeme Lloyd
1998Kevin Millar
2001Larry Barnes
2002Mike Moriarty
2003Robby Hammock
2004Jason Szuminski
2006Jason Hammel
2009Kenshin Kawakami
2009Landon Powell
2010Mike Leake
2010Raul Valdes
2011Tyler Chatwood
2013Alex Wilson
2014Michael Mariot
2015Archie Bradley
2015Matt Tracy
2016Brett Nicholas
2016Mallex Smith
2017Johan Camargo
2017JT Riddle
2018Jaime Barria
2018Andrew Suárez
2019Pedro Avila
2019Erik Swanson
2021Brent Honeywell
2022Símon Muzziotti

Players Born on, Died on, Debut on, Finished on April 11

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Baseball history on April 11 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 April 11 in Baseball History...

  • 1912 - Rube Marquard of the New York Giants began a 19-game winning streak with an 18-3 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
  • 1917 - Babe Ruth beats the Yankees, pitching a three-hit, 10-3 win for the Red Sox in the opener. He is on the way to a 24-13 record and a league-leading 35 complete games in his best year as a pitcher.
  • 1954 - To make room for promising rookie outfielder Wally Moon, the Cardinals trade longtime great Enos Slaughter to the Yankees. In what turns out to be a good deal for both teams, the Cardinals get center fielder Bill Virdon, pitcher Mel Wright, and outfielder Emil Tellinger in return. Virdon will become the N.L. Rookie of the Year in 1955, and Slaughter will help the Yankees win 103 games.
  • 1959 - Don Drysdale hits his second Opening Day home run to become the first pitcher with two career home runs on Opening Day. Unfortunately, his home run is the only Dodgers score as he loses to the Cubs 6-1.
  • 1961 - The Los Angeles Angels won their first major league game, 7-2 over the Orioles in Baltimore. Ted Kluszewski had two homers for the Angels.
  • 1962 - The New York Mets played their first game and lost 11-4 to the Cardinals in St. Louis.
  • 1963 - Warren Spahn's Opening Day 6-1 victory over the Mets is the 328th win of his career. He thus moves ahead of Eddie Plank as the all-time winningest left-hander. Except for Duke Snider's home run, no Mets get past second base.
  • 1966 - A crowd of 44,468, including Vice President Hubert Humphrey, attends a historic opener at Washington. Emmett Ashford becomes the major league's first black umpire in Cleveland's 5-2 win against the Senators.
  • 1969 - The Seattle Pilots played their first game, with Gary Bell shutting out the White Sox 7-0 at Sicks Stadium.
  • 1975 - In Milwaukee, 48,160 fans brave 37-degree weather to welcome home Hank Aaron. Hank drives in a run as the Brewers whip the Indians 6-2.
  • 1981 - After 15 seasons with the Dodgers, Don Sutton makes his debut with the Astros and is pounded by his former club for six runs in four innings. Los Angeles wins 7-4.
  • 1985 - Seattle's Gorman Thomas hit three homers and drove in six runs to lead the Mariners to a 14-6 victory over the Oakland A's.
  • 1990 - California's Mark Langston and Mike Witt combine to no-hit the Mariners 1-0 for the first combined no-hitter in the major leagues since 1976. It is Langston's first start for the Angels since signing as a free agent in the off-season.
  • 1991 - Junior Ortiz guns down Rickey Henderson, who is trying to break Lou Brock's all-time stolen base record. Henderson later leaves the game with a calf injury.
  • 1996 - Greg Maddux loses his first road game since June 27, 1994 in Montreal. Atlanta's 2-1 loss in San Diego ends a string that saw Maddux go 18-0 with only 17 earned runs allowed in 154.2 innings.

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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.