Baseball History on May 25

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Baseball history on May 25, including a list of every Major League baseball player born on May 25, a list of every Major League baseball player who died on May 25, a list of every Major League baseball player who made their big league debut on May 25, and a list of every Major League baseball player whose final big league game was on May 25.
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Baseball History on May 25

Major League Baseball Events on May 25

1845Lip Pike1904John Hayes
1863John Hofford1905Paul Cook
1877Bob Wicker1910Bill Hassamaer
1883Heinie Heitmuller1917Willie Sudhoff
1884Bill Kellogg1922Charlie Gessner
1884Bill Lattimore1924Carl Weilman
1887John Daley1928Max Fiske
1892Doug Smith1929Harvey Blauvelt
1893Everett Bankston1932Henry Boyle
1894Joe Judge1941Bob Higgins
1895Jim Riley1942Bill James
1898Jimmie Keenan1945Charlie Frye
1901Bud Connolly1953Ray Grimes
1901Doc Ozmer1959Dave Brain
1904Buz Phillips1963Hi West
1908Howard Craghead1964Joe Martin
1916Frank Drews1965Harry Biemiller
1917Bert Hodges1969Jim Riley
1918Johnny Beazley1975Bruce Hartford
1925Don Liddle1976Al Lakeman
1931Jim Marshall1988Charlie Perkins
1932Jim Archer1992Otto Denning
1936Marshall Renfroe2008Geremi Gonzalez
1945Bill Dillman2010Morrie Martin
1946Mike Corkins2011Paul Splittorff
1950Glenn Borgmann
1950John Montefusco
1954Bob Knepper
1955Andres Mora
1966Bill Haselman
1966Dave Hollins
1968Will Pennyfeather
1970Joey Eischen
1970Luis Ortiz
1971Angel Echevarria
1971Sean Maloney
1973Mel Rosario
1973Todd Walker
1974Miguel Tejada
1975Randall Simon
1976Lariel Gonzalez
1977Fernando Lunar
1978Travis Hughes
1978Mike Vento
1979Trey Lunsford
1979Chris Young
1980Scott Hairston
1982Jason Kubel
1982Brad Snyder
1984Graham Taylor
1985Brad Lincoln
1985Eric Young Jr.
1989Pat Dean
1989Neil Ramirez
1990Jarred Cosart
1990Ryan Sherriff
1994Donovan Walton
1995Jake Fraley
1995Michael King
1876Charlie Waitt 1880Dick Higham
1882Tom Evers 1902Jim Callahan
1883Edgar Smith 1906Jimmy Wiggs
1884Pat Larkins 1907Harry Arndt
1889Alex Beam 1907Jack McCarthy
1899Charlie Harris 1911Danny Hoffman
1902Jim Callahan 1911Jock Somerlott
1917Mike Regan 1912Jerry Akers
1919Luke Nelson 1912Bill Cunningham
1926Mul Holland 1912Phil Ketter
1928Art Daney 1912Hank Perry
1929Carey Selph 1926Joe Kiefer
1946Frank Hiller 1928Art Daney
1946Steve Souchock 1928Jing Johnson
1947Leslie Aulds 1932George Knothe
1951Willie Mays 1932Russ Scarritt
1956Mack Burk 1934Earl Clark
1965Frank Carpin 1935Charlie Wilson
1969Sonny Ruberto 1937Mickey Cochrane
1977Tom Hume 1942Bob Bowman
1977Mike Paxton 1949Dick Culler
1978Steve Baker 1950Ken Keltner
1978Reggie Baldwin 1954Joe Page
1978George Frazier 1960Don Gross
1980Luis Leal 1965Leo Burke
1981Glenn Brummer 1969Manny Jimenez
1982Keith Creel 1972Frank Fernandez
1982Duane Walker 1973John Gamble
1985Bob Melvin 1973Joe Pepitone
1985Brian Snyder 1978Larry Johnson
1986Scott Bankhead 1980Pedro Borbon
1987Shane Mack 1982Tim Ireland
1991Jose Mota 1984Orlando Sanchez
1993Marcos Armas 1986Marc Hill
1993Paul Carey 1989Tommy John
1996Ramiro Mendoza 1990John Hoover
1998Steve Gajkowski 1991Wayne Edwards
1999Orber Moreno 1991Dan Schatzeder
1999Chris Petersen 1996Derek Aucoin
1999Rob Radlosky 1997Larry Thomas
2000Raul Gonzalez 1998Mark Lemke
2002Aaron Harang 2001Juan Sosa
2002Chris Snelling 2003Ron Gant
2003Ray Olmedo 2003Bill Selby
2004Denny Bautista 2005Jaime Cerda
2004Andy Dominique 2008Morgan Ensberg
2004Corey Hart 2008Scott Hatteberg
2004Elizardo Ramirez 2009Rich Rundles
2005Joel Peralta 2011Justin Berg
2006Jack Hannahan 2011Robinson Tejeda
2006Bobby Keppel 2012Kevin Mattison
2006Saul Rivera 2012Stu Pomeranz
2007Ryan Braun 2013John Gast
2007Mike Zagurski 2013Edgar Gonzalez
2008Clayton Kershaw 2015Jason Marquis
2011Blake Tekotte 2016Chris Capuano
2012Juan Diaz 2016Colin Walsh
2013Jeff Kobernus 2021Josh Lindblom
2015Jacob Lindgren
2015Dixon Machado
2017Dinelson Lamet
2019Josh Smith
2019Mike Yastrzemski
2019Seby Zavala
2022Yerry De Los Santos

Players Born on, Died on, Debut on, Finished on May 25

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Baseball history on May 25 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 25 in Baseball History...

  • 1906 - Jesse Tannehill snaps the Boston Pilgrims' 20-game losing streak (19 at home, both A.L. records) with a 3-0 win over the White Sox. Both Boston teams will finish last, while both Chicago teams finish first. It's the first time two cities have had two winners and two cellar-dwellers.
  • 1919 - Ever-popular Casey Stengel, now a Pirate, is good-naturedly applauded when he comes to bat in the seventh inning at Brooklyn. He doffs his cap in response and, to everyone's delight, releases a sparrow he had hidden there.
  • 1922 - Babe Ruth is suspended one day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump after being called out on a play at second base, then going into the stands after a heckler. He is also stripped of his title as team captain.
  • 1935 - Babe Ruth has a last hurrah, hitting three home runs at Pittsburgh. The final one, the last of his 714 career home runs, is the first to clear the right field grandstand at Forbes Field and is measured at 600 feet.
  • 1937 - After hitting a home run against the Yankees in his prior at bat, Mickey Cochrane suffers a skull fracture from a Bump Hadley pitch. Coach Del Baker will run the team for the hospitalized Detroit leader, who will never return to active play.
  • 1941 - Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for the first time during the season. His run to be the first since Bill Terry in 1930 to exceed the magic number will be marked in newspapers throughout the season, although it will often give way to the batting streak by Joe DiMaggio.
  • 1951 - Giants rookie Willie Mays, who was hitting .477 with Minneapolis, goes 0-for-5 in his major league debut against the Phils.
  • 1953 - Max Surkont of the Braves fans eight Reds in a row, establishing a new major league mark, as the Braves win 10-3 in the second game of a doubleheader. Surkont strikes out seven in a row before rain delays the game, then strikes out Andy Seminick to start the fifth inning. Surkont fans 13 on the way to his sixth straight win.
  • 1960 - George Crowe's major league-record 11th pinch-hit home run, off Don McMahon, gives the Cardinals a 5-3 win over the Braves. Crowe began the season tied with Smoky Burgess and Gus Zernial in career pinch home runs.
  • 1964 - Ground is broken for a new stadium in St. Louis.
  • 1975 - Cleveland's Dennis Eckersley, in his first major league start, hurls a three-hit shutout in beating Oakland 6-0.
  • 1981 - Carl Yastrzemski plays in his 3,000th major league game, scoring the winning run in Boston's 8-7 triumph over Cleveland. Yaz joins Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, and Hank Aaron as the only major leaguers to appear in 3,000 games.
  • 1982 - Fergie Jenkins of the Cubs fans Garry Templeton in the third inning of a 2-1 loss to the Padres to become the seventh pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
  • 1984 - The Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley and minor leaguer Mike Brumley to the Cubs for veteran Bill Buckner, who had been benched in Chicago in favor of Leon Durham but will immediately become Boston's starting first baseman.
  • 1989 - After shopping him for several months, the Mariners finally trade star pitcher Mark Langston to Montreal for pitchers Randy Johnson, Brian Holman, and Gene Harris.

Did you know that there were baseball players born on every date of the year and baseball players who died on every date of the year? Use the calendar below to select any date in baseball history.
 

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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.