Baseball History on May 8

Major League Baseball Events on May 8 | Baseball Almanac

Baseball history on May 8, including a list of every Major League baseball player born on May 8, a list of every Major League baseball player who died on May 8, a list of every Major League baseball player who made their big league debut on May 8, and a list of every Major League baseball player whose final big league game was on May 8.
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Baseball History on May 8

Major League Baseball Events on May 8

1843Jack Chapman1914Paddy Fox
1850Ross Barnes1927Phil Bedgood
1856Dasher Troy1931George Noftsker
1858Dan Brouthers1937Al Yeargin
1869Tom Bannon1940Chick Fraser
1874Eddie Boyle1941Bill Joyce
1880John Skopec1946Ducky Swan
1882Barney Schreiber1948John Dolan
1885Bill Powell1954Les Channell
1891Chet Hoff1960Howie Camp
1893Ed Hemingway1961Weldon Wyckoff
1893Edd Roush1962Buster Burrell
1893Roy Wilkinson1967Ossie Orwoll
1895Ed Murray1977Frankie Pytlak
1899Fritz Henrich1980Fred Wigington
1917Harry O'Neill1981Earle Brucker
1937Mike Cuellar1981Eddie Onslow
1937Art Lopez1993Al Tate
1948Steve Braun1997Bob Whitcher
1948Miguel Puente2003Slick Coffman
1950Lloyd Allen2009Dom DiMaggio
1951Dennis Leonard2010George Susce
1959Ricky Nelson2014Leo Marentette
1962Orestes Destrade2016John Young
1964Dave Rohde2018Al Stanek
1971Todd Greene2020Ben Johnson
1980Jason Davis2023Vern Holtgrave
1981John Maine
1981Alfredo Simon
1982Adrian Gonzalez
1984Adam Moore
1989Wily Peralta
1990Sean Gilmartin
1991Cody Ege
1994Lewis Brinson
1997Bryan Hudson
1999Brett Wisely
1876John Carbine 1884Walt Walker
1876George Zettlein 1890Billy Klusman
1877Mike Dorgan 1891Mike Kilroy
1877Harry Smith 1891Cyclone Ryan
1882Morrie Critchley 1894Kid Camp
1884Walt Walker 1894Lew Camp
1889Charlie Reynolds 1895Gil Hatfield
1890Willie McGill 1896Jake Boyd
1902Andy Oyler 1898Danny Friend
1906Lew Richie 1899George Bristow
1907George McQuillan 1901Bert Conn
1908Walter Carlisle 1910Bill O'Hara
1912Dave Howard 1912Lee Tannehill
1918Frank Shellenback 1913Ralph Capron
1920George Payne 1914Bill Reynolds
1922George Murray 1915Felix Chouinard
1929Lou Legett 1915Jim Delahanty
1936Gene Lillard 1916Marty McHale
1938Jim Asbell 1917Duke Kenworthy
1938Johnny Humphries 1918Weldon Wyckoff
1938Bob Uhl 1920Hod Leverette
1939Walt Masterson 1923Tod Dennehey
1945Frank Papish 1923Harry Harper
1945Vince Ventura 1923Roy Moore
1946Earl Reid 1930Stu Clarke
1952Jerry Snyder 1932Ike Boone
1959Roger McCardell 1933Hod Ford
1962Bob Botz 1934Johnny Pasek
1963Dick Scott 1939Jim Weaver
1965Mike Hedlund 1946Al Javery
1977Gil Flores 1947Lou Finney
1982Tom O'Malley 1947Hugh Mulcahy
1983Dave Anderson 1948John Hall
1984Mike Hart 1949Johnny Beazley
1984Kirby Puckett 1949Jimmy Outlaw
1990Carlos Diaz 1950Walt Linden
1990David Segui 1950Marv Rackley
1994Mike Mordecai 1955Phil Cavarretta
1994Paul Shuey 1955Mickey Grasso
1995Jason Giambi 1955Stan Jok
1995Dustin Hermanson 1955Jerry Lane
1997Cory Lidle 1955Bill Miller
1999Juan Pena 1956Matt Batts
2000Fernando Lunar 1956Bob Ross
2001Alex Escobar 1956Al Silvera
2001Matt Miller 1956Gale Wade
2004Brian Bruney 1957Ellis Kinder
2005Cla Meredith 1958Bill Taylor
2005Ray Sadler 1960Fred Kipp
2005Brad Thompson 1962Al Cicotte
2009Chris Coghlan 1965Frank Baumann
2010Kevin Russo 1965Steve Boros
2011José Iglesias 1965Bobby Del Greco
2013Derek Dietrich 1966George Kernek
2014Rougned Odor 1973Bobby Fenwick
2015Williams Perez 1975Charlie Sands
2015Travis Shaw 1976Ken Crosby
2016Albert Suarez 1977Joe Lis
2016J.B. Wendelken 1979Gene Clines
2017Chris Bostick 1979Tom Murphy
2021Trevor Larnach 1987Nelson Simmons
2021Sebastian Rivero 1987Rob Wilfong
2022George Kirby 1988Gibson Alba
2022Alek Thomas 1988Chris Chambliss
1988Mike Mason
1990Dickie Noles
1993Eric Bell
1994Steve Sax
2000Gary DiSarcina
2003Gary Johnson
2004Adrian Hernandez
2004Josh Pearce
2005Brian Anderson
2005J.J. Davis
2005Jesse Garcia
2005Dave Matranga
2005Ben Weber
2008Callix Crabbe
2008Brad Harman
2008Colt Morton
2010Matt Chico
2011Milton Bradley
2012Aneury Rodriguez
2016Matt Tuiasosopo
2017Jaff Decker

Players Born on, Died on, Debut on, Finished on May 8

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Baseball history on May 8 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 May 8 in Baseball History...

  • 1901 - In their long-delayed A.L. home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia 12-4 behind Cy Young, who has jumped from the St. Louis N.L. team. He will lead the A.L. with his 1.62 ERA and 33 wins, which are 41.8 percent of his team's 79 victories. This post-1900 record will stand until Steve Carlton totals 45.8 percent of the Phillies' 59 wins in 1972.
  • 1906 - With the A's shorthanded because of injuries, Connie Mack puts pitcher Alvin "Chief" Bender in left field in the sixth inning of a game against the Boston Pilgrims. Bender hits two inside-the-park home runs.
  • 1907 - Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer threw a no-hitter to give the Braves a 6-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in Boston.
  • 1929 - Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants pitched a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the first by a left-hander in the majors in thirteen seasons.
  • 1935 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds hit four doubles in consecutive innings (sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth) off four different Phillies pitchers. Lombardi also singled as the Reds beat Philadelphia 15-4.
  • 1946 - Red Sox shortstop Johnny Pesky becomes the first player in AL history to score six runs in one game as Boston beats the White Sox 14-10. During the week Pesky also had eleven straight hits before grounding out against Al Milnar of the Browns.
  • 1947 - According to a story by league president Ford Frick, a movement among Cardinals players to protest their first meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a clubhouse talk from owner Sam Breadon (who denies the story). Suspended manager Leo Durocher and his wife, Larraine Day, are in the stands as the Dodgers win 7-6 on a Pee Wee Reese home run.
  • 1966 - Orioles right fielder Frank Robinson powers the first ball ever hit completely out of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. The 451-foot shot ends Luis Tiant's scoreless-innings streak at 27. Baltimore wins 8-3 and ties Cleveland for first place.
  • 1966 - The St. Louis Cardinals closed old Busch Stadium with a 10-5 loss to the San Francisco Giants.
  • 1968 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter of the Oakland A's pitched a perfect game to beat the Minnesota Twins 4-0.
  • 1973 - For the second time in his career, the Pirates' Willie Stargell poles one out of Dodger Stadium. His blast off Andy Messersmith hits the right field pavilion roof 470 feet away. His first such homer, a 506-foot shot, came off Alan Foster on August 5, 1969. No other player has hit one out of the stadium.
  • 1973 - Cubs manager Whitey Lockman is ejected during a 12-inning 3-2 win over the Padres. Coach Ernie Banks fills in for the last few innings, technically becoming the major leagues' first black manager.
  • 1984 - Minnesota's Kirby Puckett had four singles in his first Major League game as the Twins beat the California Angels 5-0.
  • 1994 - The Colorado Silver Bullets, the first women's team to play a pro men's team, lost 19-0 to the Northern League All-Stars. Leon Durham hit two homers and Oil Can Boyd started for the All-Stars. The Silver Bullets had two hits, struck out sixteen times and made six errors.
  • 1998 - Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire connects for his 400th career home run in the third inning at Shea Stadium. McGwire, who has homered every 11.82 at-bats in his career, reaches the milestone in his 4,726th at-bat, beating babe Ruth to that plateau by 128 at-bats. McGwire is the 26th major league player to hit 400 home runs.
  • 2001 - Randy Johnson became only the third pitcher to strike out twenty batters in nine innings, but didn't finish the game as Arizona went on beat Cincinnati 4-3 in 11 innings. The Big Unit, the first left-hander to fan twenty, missed out on the chance to join Roger Clemens and Kerry Wood as the record-holders for a nine-inning game because Arizona could not finish off the Reds in regulation.

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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.