American League Retirements 1944
#	Name	Team	Pos	Age
25	Ted Abernathy	Philadelphia Athletics	P	23
37	Steve Biras	Cleveland Indians	2B	23
3, 17	Ed Boland	Washington Senators	OF	37
30	Bill Bonness	Cleveland Indians	P	21
11	Bill Burgo	Philadelphia Athletics	OF	25
26	Ed Butka	Washington Senators	1B	29
7	Mike Chartak	St. Louis Browns	1B	29
4	Grey Clarke	Chicago White Sox	3B	32
11	Rip Collins	New York Yankees	C	35
23	Bill Conroy	Boston Red Sox	C	30
21	Johnny Cooney	New York Yankees	OF	44
10	Frank Demaree	St. Louis Browns	OF	34
4	Jim Devlin	Cleveland Indians	C	22
3	Hal Epps	Philadelphia Athletics	OF	31
18	Hal Epps	St. Louis Browns	OF	31
14	Lew Flick	Philadelphia Athletics	OF	30
25	Bubba Floyd	Detroit Tigers	SS	27
21	Preston Gomez	Washington Senators	2B	22
36	Jimmy Grant	Cleveland Indians	2B	26
17	Tom Hafey	St. Louis Browns	OF	31
31	Luke Hamlin	Philadelphia Athletics	P	40
34	Don Hanski	Chicago White Sox	P	29
5	Don Heffner	Detroit Tigers	2B	34
21	Roy Henshaw	Detroit Tigers	P	33
2	Chief Hogsett	Detroit Tigers	P	41
27	Willis Hudlin	St. Louis Browns	P	39
20	Bill Lefebvre	Washington Senators	P	29
9	Ed Levy	New York Yankees	OF	28
38	Russ Lyon	Cleveland Indians	C	31
3	John McGillen	Philadelphia Athletics	P	27
29	William Metzig	Chicago White Sox	2B	26
23	Bill Mills	Philadelphia Athletics	C	25
5	Jake Mooty	Detroit Tigers	P	32
31	Mike Naymick	Cleveland Indians	P	27
17	Baby Ortiz	Washington Senators	P	25
10	Tony Parisse	Philadelphia Athletics	C	33
12	Joe Rullo	Philadelphia Athletics	2B	28
4	Norm Schlueter	Cleveland Indians	C	28
28, 32	Al Simmons	Philadelphia Athletics	OF	43
39	Floyd Speer	Chicago White Sox	P	32
6	Luis Suarez	Washington Senators	3B	28
18	Jackie Sullivan	Detroit Tigers	2B	27
28	George Susce	Cleveland Indians	C	37
11	Jug Thesenga	Washington Senators	P	31
17	Tom Turner	Chicago White Sox	C	28
17	Tom Turner	St. Louis Browns	C	28
27	Roy Valdes	Washington Senators	PH	25
6	Joe Vosmik	Washington Senators	OF	35
30	Woody Wheaton	Philadelphia Athletics	P	30
1	Jo-Jo White	Philadelphia Athletics	OF	35
17	Joe Wood	Boston Red Sox	P	29
41	Bill Zinser	Washington Senators	P	27
#	Name	Team	Pos	Age
1944 American League Retirements

1944 N.L. Retirements

	Find out which players made their Major League debut in the American League during the 1944 season as this group of players bid farewell to their field's of dreams. Did you know that future hall of fame pitcher Walter Johnson ended his Major League career in 1927 with a pinch-hit appearance? During the final game of the season pitcher Tom Zachary, who had just given up Babe Ruth's sixtieth home run of the season, was lifted and Johnson replaced him at the plate. Goose Goslin played for eighteen seasons and averaged one-hundred twenty-seven games played per season. In 1938, during his final at-bat, he twisted his back and was replaced at the plate by a pinch-hitter for the first time in his Major League career.