1914 American 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
American League Debuts

1914

n/a Fritz Coumbe 1914 Boston Red Sox 04-22-1914 24
n/a Rankin Johnson 1914 Boston Red Sox 04-20-1914 26
n/a Ed Kelly 1914 Boston Red Sox 04-14-1914 25
n/a Larry Pratt 1914 Boston Red Sox 09-19-1914 26
n/a Babe Ruth 1914 Boston Red Sox 07-11-1914 19
n/a Everett Scott 1914 Boston Red Sox 04-14-1914 21
n/a Bill Swanson 1914 Boston Red Sox 09-02-1914 25
n/a Matt Zeiser 1914 Boston Red Sox 04-27-1914 25
n/a Scotty Alcock 1914 Chicago White Sox 04-19-1914 28
n/a Delos Brown 1914 Chicago White Sox 06-12-1914 21
n/a Cecil Coombs 1914 Chicago White Sox 08-07-1914 26
n/a Red Faber 1914 Chicago White Sox 04-17-1914 25
n/a Hi Jasper 1914 Chicago White Sox 04-19-1914 27
n/a Charlie Kavanagh 1914 Chicago White Sox 06-11-1914 23
n/a Carl Manda 1914 Chicago White Sox 09-11-1914 27
n/a Irv Porter 1914 Chicago White Sox 08-20-1914 26
n/a Braggo Roth 1914 Chicago White Sox 09-01-1914 22
n/a Hank Schreiber 1914 Chicago White Sox 04-14-1914 22
n/a Mellie Wolfgang 1914 Chicago White Sox 04-18-1914 24
n/a Walter Barbare 1914 Cleveland Naps 09-17-1914 23
n/a George Beck 1914 Cleveland Naps 05-15-1914 24
n/a Henry Benn 1914 Cleveland Naps 09-24-1914 24
n/a Lloyd Bishop 1914 Cleveland Naps 09-05-1914 24
n/a Abe Bowman 1914 Cleveland Naps 05-19-1914 21
n/a Paul Carter 1914 Cleveland Naps 09-15-1914 20
n/a Al Cypert 1914 Cleveland Naps 06-27-1914 24
n/a Harley Dillinger 1914 Cleveland Naps 08-16-1914 19
n/a Tinsley Ginn 1914 Cleveland Naps 06-27-1914 22
n/a Bruce Hartford 1914 Cleveland Naps 06-03-1914 22
n/a Sam Jones 1914 Cleveland Naps 06-13-1914 21
n/a Frank Mills 1914 Cleveland Naps 09-22-1914 19
n/a Guy Morton 1914 Cleveland Naps 06-20-1914 21
n/a Larry Pezold 1914 Cleveland Naps 07-27-1914 21
n/a Elmer Smith 1914 Cleveland Naps 09-20-1914 21
n/a Al Tedrow 1914 Cleveland Naps 09-15-1914 22
n/a Bill Wambsganss 1914 Cleveland Naps 08-04-1914 20
n/a Del Baker 1914 Detroit Tigers 04-16-1914 21
n/a George Burns 1914 Detroit Tigers 04-14-1914 21
n/a Harry Heilmann 1914 Detroit Tigers 05-16-1914 19
n/a Marty Kavanagh 1914 Detroit Tigers 04-18-1914 22
n/a Alex Main 1914 Detroit Tigers 04-18-1914 29
n/a Ed McCreery 1914 Detroit Tigers 08-16-1914 24
n/a Fred McMullin 1914 Detroit Tigers 08-27-1914 22
n/a Red Oldham 1914 Detroit Tigers 08-19-1914 21
n/a Ross Reynolds 1914 Detroit Tigers 05-02-1914 26
n/a Johnnie Williams 1914 Detroit Tigers 04-21-1914 24
n/a Angel Aragon 1914 New York Yankees 08-20-1914 24
n/a Tom Burr 1914 New York Yankees 04-21-1914 20
n/a Guy Cooper 1914 New York Yankees 05-02-1914 21
n/a Joe Harris 1914 New York Yankees 06-09-1914 23
n/a Harry Kingman 1914 New York Yankees 07-01-1914 22
n/a Charlie Meara 1914 New York Yankees 06-01-1914 23
n/a Jay Rogers 1914 New York Yankees 05-22-1914 25
n/a Pi Schwert 1914 New York Yankees 10-06-1914 21
n/a Rube Bressler 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 04-24-1914 19
n/a Toots Coyne 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 09-28-1914 19
n/a Sam Crane 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 10-02-1914 20
n/a Chick Davies 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 07-11-1914 22
n/a Ferdie Moore 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 10-02-1914 18
n/a Ben Rochefort 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 10-03-1914 18
n/a Dean Sturgis 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 05-01-1914 21
n/a Buck Sweeney 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 09-28-1914 24
n/a Shag Thompson 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 06-08-1914 21
n/a Fred Worden 1914 Philadelphia Athletics 09-28-1914 20
n/a Grover Baichley 1914 St. Louis Browns 08-24-1914 24
n/a Charlie Bold 1914 St. Louis Browns 08-24-1914 19
n/a Tim Bowden 1914 St. Louis Browns 09-17-1914 23
n/a Bob Clemens 1914 St. Louis Browns 09-17-1914 28
n/a Jack Enzenroth 1914 St. Louis Browns 05-01-1914 28
n/a George Hale 1914 St. Louis Browns 08-24-1914 20
n/a Ed Hemingway 1914 St. Louis Browns 09-17-1914 21
n/a Ivan Howard 1914 St. Louis Browns 04-25-1914 31
n/a Joe Jenkins 1914 St. Louis Browns 04-30-1914 23
n/a Dick Kauffman 1914 St. Louis Browns 09-17-1914 26
n/a John Leary 1914 St. Louis Browns 04-14-1914 22
n/a Ernie Manning 1914 St. Louis Browns 05-03-1914 23
n/a William Rumler 1914 St. Louis Browns 05-04-1914 23
n/a Dutch Schirick 1914 St. Louis Browns 09-17-1914 24
n/a Allen Sothoron 1914 St. Louis Browns 09-17-1914 21
n/a Frank Barron 1914 Washington Senators 08-19-1914 24
n/a Irish Meusel 1914 Washington Senators 10-01-1914 21
n/a Doug Neff 1914 Washington Senators 06-26-1914 22
n/a Charlie Pick 1914 Washington Senators 09-20-1914 26
n/a Jim Stevens 1914 Washington Senators 08-24-1914 24
n/a Tom Wilson 1914 Washington Senators 09-08-1914 24
1914 American League Debuts


 

Find out which players bid farewell to their field's of dreams in the American League during the 1914 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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