Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart of every University of Virginia alumni who played baseball at the University of Virginia AND made it to the Major League level.
"I remember the conversation (with Manager Terry Francona) like it was last night. He said, 'If anything changes, I will get back to you.' Does that sound final? No. There's a high road and a low road and they (the Red Sox) took the low road." - Cubbage, Mike. The Boston Globe. 9 January 2004.
The University of Virginia baseball program started in 1889. Henry Summersgill (who played in the majors earlier in his life using the name Andy Sommerville) was the first former Cavalier to make it to the Major League level.
Did you know that there were fifty-five former University of Virginia ballplayers who made it to the majors? Send updates to Baseball Almanac.
Take a closer look at the first University of Virginia Cavalier to make it to them Major League level and note his date of debut. How is that possible? Because he played in the big leagues using the name seen above then played four years later at the University of Virginia using his birth name!