Baseball History on August 28

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Baseball history on August 28, including a list of every Major League baseball player born on August 28, a list of every Major League baseball player who died on August 28, a list of every Major League baseball player who made their big league debut on August 28, and a list of every Major League baseball player whose final big league game was on August 28.
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Baseball History on August 28

Major League Baseball Events on August 28

1861Charlie Reising1894Gracie Pierce
1873Bill Stuart1929Ed Flynn
1874George Bone1936Youngy Johnson
1875Joe Yeager1939Dave Oldfield
1876Doc Hazleton1940Charlie Johnson
1877Ben Beville1942Bill Rariden
1880Buck Hooker1951Billy Lush
1881Dode Paskert1951Bill Piercy
1891Byron Houck1958Jean Dubuc
1892Braggo Roth1958Eddie Stack
1896Aaron Ward1958Sid Womack
1898Charlie Grimm1976Bill Hunnefield
1902Art Jacobs1979Earl Pruess
1902Wally Roettger1980Harry Smythe
1908Don Savidge1989Fred Waters
1910Jack Peerson1990Larry Jackson
1912Goody Rosen1994Dain Clay
1918Jeff Cross1995Juan Rios
1918Ronnie Miller1996Al Zarilla
1919Charlie Marshall1997Lou Scoffic
1921Cliff Aberson1999Johnny Gerlach
1921Bill Bradford1999Dave Pope
1925Johnny Pramesa
1926Bob Trice
1936Tony Gonzalez
1937Bob Hartman
1938Billy Cowan
1938Dick LeMay
1940Tom Satriano
1943Lou Piniella
1946Mike Torrez
1950Ron Guidry
1951Joel Youngblood
1967Darren Lewis
1971Shane Andrews
1972Jay Witasick
1973Kit Pellow
1977Tom Shearn
1978Ed Rogers
1980T.J. Beam
1980Ryan Madson
1981Yunesky Maya
1982Carlos Quentin
1982Randy Wells
1984Will Harris
1986Tommy Hanson
1989Matt Andriese
1989Matt Dominguez
1993Seby Zavala
1994Kelvin Gutiérrez
1999Gregory Santos
1879Harry Salisbury 1877Bob Maloney
1889Harry Clarke 1884Bill Loughran
1890Leo Smith 1884Fred Tenney
1895Sam Moran 1888Eddie Fusselback
1897Davy Dunkle 1889Harry Clarke
1898Joe Gannon 1890Mickey Hughes
1901Bob Lindemann 1890Dad Lytle
1905Red Munson 1892Tun Berger
1905Dave Murphy 1895Guy McFadden
1907Harry Curtis 1895Charlie Nyce
1907Tacks Neuer 1896Ad Gumbert
1909William Matthews 1898Joe Gannon
1909Duke Reilley 1898George Stallings
1912Duke Kenworthy 1901Roger Denzer
1919Frank Ellerbe 1902Dad Clark
1919Bucky Harris 1905Bill Lauterborn
1921John Michaelson 1910Les Backman
1924Ed Clough 1912Arthur Hauger
1924Chick Hafey 1914Charlie Bold
1924Herb Thomas 1915Oscar Harstad
1924Clarence Winters 1915Howie Haworth
1927Johnny Gill 1918Fritz Maisel
1936Cotton Pippen 1921Ivy Griffin
1938Butch Sutcliffe 1922Charlie Eckert
1943Charlie Mead 1924Bud Messenger
1967Johnny Bench 1924Frank Wayenberg
1981Tim Laudner 1926George Stutz
1981Kelvin Moore 1929Mel Ingram
1985Todd Worrell 1930Tripp Sigman
1987Jose Lind 1933Val Picinich
1989Jose Cano 1934Harvey Hendrick
1995Marc Valdes 1935Wedo Martini
1996Greg McCarthy 1941Johnny Babich
1998Mike Heathcott 1943Marv Breuer
1999Hector Ramirez 1943Bill Sayles
2002Clay Condrey 1949Herman Franks
2004Jeremy Guthrie 1957Paul LaPalme
2005Jason Bergmann 1965Harvey Haddix
2009John Hester 1967Don Demeter
2009Wilton Lopez 1967Hal Woodeshick
2009Pedro Strop 1968Bill Connors
2011Jerad Head 1968Darcy Fast
2015Dariel Alvarez 1970Tony Horton
2018Josh Rogers 1976Bruce Miller
2018Luis Urías 1980John Montague
2020Ben Braymer 1983Cesar Geronimo
2020Estevan Florial 1983Steve Renko
2020Mitch White 1987Alan Wiggins
2023Kody Funderburk 1992Jack Clark
2023Drew Millas 1998Mike Heathcott
2023Ceddanne Rafaela 2002David Coggin
2004David Maurer
2005John Riedling
2007Travis Driskill
2011Mark Hendrickson
2011Wilfredo Ledezma
2013Robert Carson
2014Mike Carp

Players Born on, Died on, Debut on, Finished on August 28

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Baseball history on August 28 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 August 28 in Baseball History...

  • 1884 - Mickey Welch of the New York Gothams sets the all-time major league record by fanning the first nine Philadelphia batters he faces. Welch wins 39 games this year and in just 13 seasons will win 307.
  • 1921 - Babe Ruth starts a record streak in which he gets at least one extra-base hit in nine straight games.
  • 1926 - Dutch Levsen of the Cleveland Indians pitched two complete-game victories over the Boston Red Sox, 6-1 and 5-1. He did not strike out a batter in either game. The Indians used the identical lineup in both games.
  • 1932 - The Red Sox eclipse the Indians in the second game of a doubleheader 4-3 in 11 innings. The game was previously scheduled for August 31, but a solar eclipse was due and blackened the ballpark for twenty minutes, so the game is played today instead.
  • 1938 - On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader from the White Sox, setting a league record by playing their seventh successive twinbill in eight days.
  • 1950 - Earle and Roy Mack, Connie's sons by his first marriage, purchase 54 percent interest in the Athletics from Connie Mack, Jr., their younger brother from a second marriage. Earle, Roy and Connie Mack now own the club outright.
  • 1951 - The Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000 and a young pitcher named Lew Burdette. It is another late-season insurance measure for the New Yorkers.
  • 1951 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Giants 2-0, snapping the Giants' 16-game winning streak. The streak enabled the Giants to cut the Dodgers 13 1/2-game lead to six.
  • 1958 - White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox sets a record for consecutive games without striking out (98).
  • 1967 - Boston signs free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson. Harrelson reportedly receives a $75,000 bonus and salary package for 1967 and 1968. Harrelson will homer in his first Boston at bat but will hit just .200 for the Red Sox in 1967. The next year, however, he will become an All-Star and lead the American League with 109 RBI.
  • 1971 - Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Rick Wise hit two home runs to help himself to a 7-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
  • 1977 - Steve Garvey hit three doubles and two home runs in five at-bats, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 11-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. One of Garvey's homers was a grand slam.
  • 1977 - In a 6-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles, Nolan Ryan of the California Angles struck out 11 batters to pass the 300-strikeout plateau for the fifth time in his career.
  • 1983 - Greg Luzinski becomes the first player to park three home runs onto the roof at Comiskey Park, connecting off Boston's Oil Can Boyd in a 6-2 Chicago victory. Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams each accomplished the feat twice.
  • 1987 - Mike Schmidt continues to climb baseball's all-time home run list, passing both Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with the 522nd of his career in an 8-1 win over San Diego.
  • 1989 - Frank Viola and the Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and the Dodgers 1-0 in the first-ever regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners.
  • 1990 - Ryne Sandberg homers in the Cubs' 5-2 win over the Astros to become the first second baseman ever to post back-to-back 30-home run seasons. He will finish the year with 40 home runs to become the first second baseman since Rogers Hornsby in 1925 to lead the league in that category.
  • 1992 - The Milwaukee Brewers set an American League record with 31 hits and 26 singles in a 22-2 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays.
  • 1996 - The Cleveland Indians finished the season 12-0 against Detroit Tigers to become the seventh team to sweep a season series since 1900.

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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.