1911 National League Debuts

Willie Mays played his first Major League game on May 25, 1951, and went 0-for-5 at the plate. He started his career 1-for-25 and told his manager, "I can't do it, Mr. Leo. You better bench me."

Casey Stengel played his first Major League game on July 27, 1912, and went 4-for-4 at the plate. He commented later in his life, "I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly decided they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression."

Both Mays and Stengel would continue their Major League careers down separate paths of greatness, but each still had to appear in that memorable first Major League game. Baseball Almanac is pleased to present what Cubs broadcaster Steve Stone once described as, "His first Major League debut."
"There is a certain amount of fascination to the big league debut of any athlete. Sometimes they are incredible successes. Sometimes they are frenetic failures." - Sportswriter Arthur Daley
National League Debuts

1911

n/a Art Butler 1911 Boston Rustlers 04-14-1911 23
n/a Ed Donnelly 1911 Boston Rustlers 09-19-1911 32
n/a Brad Hogg 1911 Boston Rustlers 09-01-1911 22
n/a Scotty Ingerton 1911 Boston Rustlers 04-12-1911 24
n/a George Jackson 1911 Boston Rustlers 08-02-1911 29
n/a Bill Jones 1911 Boston Rustlers 06-20-1911 24
n/a Ed McDonald 1911 Boston Rustlers 08-05-1911 24
n/a Bill McTigue 1911 Boston Rustlers 05-02-1911 19
n/a Hub Perdue 1911 Boston Rustlers 04-19-1911 28
n/a Harry Spratt 1911 Boston Rustlers 04-13-1911 23
n/a Fuller Thompson 1911 Boston Rustlers 08-19-1911 22
n/a Bert Weeden 1911 Boston Rustlers 06-04-1911 28
n/a Herman Young 1911 Boston Rustlers 06-11-1911 25
n/a Raleigh Aitchison 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers 04-19-1911 23
n/a Jud Daley 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers 09-19-1911 27
n/a Al Humphrey 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers 09-01-1911 25
n/a Larry Lejeune 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers 05-10-1911 25
n/a Walt Miller 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers 09-20-1911 27
n/a Bill Schardt 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers 04-14-1911 25
n/a Red Smith 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers 09-05-1911 21
n/a Bert Tooley 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers 04-12-1911 24
n/a Larry Cheney 1911 Chicago Cubs 09-09-1911 25
n/a Hank Griffin 1911 Chicago Cubs 05-05-1911 24
n/a Al Kaiser 1911 Chicago Cubs 04-18-1911 24
n/a Ernie Ovitz 1911 Chicago Cubs 06-22-1911 25
n/a Reggie Richter 1911 Chicago Cubs 05-30-1911 22
n/a Vic Saier 1911 Chicago Cubs 05-03-1911 19
n/a Cy Slapnicka 1911 Chicago Cubs 09-26-1911 25
n/a Fred Toney 1911 Chicago Cubs 04-15-1911 22
n/a Rafael Almeida 1911 Cincinnati Reds 07-04-1911 23
n/a Mike Balenti 1911 Cincinnati Reds 07-19-1911 25
n/a Jack Compton 1911 Cincinnati Reds 09-07-1911 29
n/a Jimmy Esmond 1911 Cincinnati Reds 04-20-1911 21
n/a Herb Juul 1911 Cincinnati Reds 07-11-1911 25
n/a Danny Mahoney 1911 Cincinnati Reds 05-15-1911 22
n/a Armando Marsans 1911 Cincinnati Reds 07-04-1911 23
n/a Barney Schreiber 1911 Cincinnati Reds 05-15-1911 29
n/a Hank Severeid 1911 Cincinnati Reds 05-15-1911 19
n/a George Burns 1911 New York Giants 10-03-1911 21
n/a Charlie Faust 1911 New York Giants 10-07-1911 30
n/a Grover Hartley 1911 New York Giants 05-13-1911 22
n/a Gene Paulette 1911 New York Giants 06-16-1911 20
n/a Grover Alexander 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 04-15-1911 24
n/a Dick Cotter 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 08-17-1911 21
n/a Bert Hall 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 08-21-1911 21
n/a Clarence Lehr 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 05-18-1911 25
n/a Paddy Mayes 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 06-11-1911 26
n/a Hughie Miller 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 06-18-1911 24
n/a Troy Puckett 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 10-04-1911 21
n/a John Quinn 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 10-09-1911 26
n/a Toots Shultz 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 05-05-1911 22
n/a Jake Smith 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 10-03-1911 24
n/a Buck Stanley 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 09-12-1911 21
n/a Harry Welchonce 1911 Philadelphia Phillies 04-17-1911 27
n/a Ensign Cottrell 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 06-21-1911 22
n/a Jerry Dorsey 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 09-23-1911 26
n/a Harry Gardner 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 04-17-1911 23
n/a Claude Hendrix 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 05-15-1911 22
n/a Newt Hunter 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 04-12-1911 31
n/a Bill Keen 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 08-08-1911 18
n/a Mickey Keliher 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 09-09-1911 21
n/a Judge Nagle 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 04-26-1911 31
n/a Hank Robinson 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 09-02-1911 24
n/a John Shovlin 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 06-21-1911 20
n/a Sherry Smith 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates 05-11-1911 20
n/a Jim Clark 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 09-02-1911 23
n/a Ed Conwell 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 09-22-1911 21
n/a Gene Dale 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 09-19-1911 22
n/a Frank Gilhooley 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 09-18-1911 19
n/a Lou Lowdermilk 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 04-20-1911 24
n/a Lee Magee 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 07-04-1911 22
n/a Jack McAdams 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 07-22-1911 24
n/a Dan McGeehan 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 04-22-1911 25
n/a Otto McIvor 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 04-18-1911 26
n/a Hap Morse 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 04-18-1911 24
n/a Roy Radebaugh 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 09-22-1911 30
n/a Milt Reed 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 09-09-1911 21
n/a Jack Reis 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 09-09-1911 20
n/a Wally Smith 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 04-17-1911 23
n/a Pete Standridge 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 09-19-1911 20
n/a Denney Wilie 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 07-27-1911 20
n/a Ivey Wingo 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 04-20-1911 20
n/a Gene Woodburn 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 07-27-1911 24
n/a George Zackert 1911 St. Louis Cardinals 09-22-1911 26
1911 National League Debuts


 

Find out which players bid farewell to their field's of dreams in the National League during the 1911 season as this group of players made their Major League debut!

When Christy Mathewson made his Major League debut the newspaper wrote, "The untried semi-professional possessed great speed and plenty of confidence in himself, but could not control his curves."

Five-for-five debuts? Believe it or not it has happened twice: On June 30, 1894 Fred Clarke of the Louisville Colonels and on May 16, 1933, Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators made their Major League debuts and both went five-for-five at the plate.
     

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