Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart of every Yale University alumni who played baseball at the Yale University AND made it to the Major League level.
"His (Ron Darling) season (1981) was probably the greatest a Yale player has ever had as far as both pitching and hitting go." - Yale University Coach Joe Benanto in the Yale Herald (1999)
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# | MLB Player Name | Dates Played | Debut | Box |
1. | Edgar Smith | 1882 - 1882 | 05-25-1883 |
2. | Jack Jones | 1882 - 1883 | 07-09-1883 |
3. | Al Hubbard | 1882 - 1883 | 09-13-1883 |
4. | Bill Hutchison | 1878 - 1881 | 06-10-1884 |
5. | Bill Vinton | 1884 - 1884 | 07-03-1884 |
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# | MLB Player Name | Dates Played | Debut | Box |
6. | Denny O'Neil (Holy Cross) | 1893 - 1893 | 06-18-1893 |
7. | Yale Murphy | 1890 - 1893 | 04-19-1894 |
8. | Ed Buckingham | 1892 - 1895 | 08-30-1895 |
9. | Queenie O'Rourke (Holy Cross) | 1901 - 1901 & 1903 - 1903 | 08-15-1908 |
10. | Barney Reilly | 1904 - 1909 | 07-02-1909 |
11. | Pete Falsey | 1910 - 1914 | 07-16-1914 |
12. | Spencer Pumpelly | 1912 - 1917 | 07-11-1925 |
13. | Bruce Caldwell (Brown) | 1927 - 1928 | 06-30-1928 |
14. | Johnny Broaca | 1932 - 1932 | 06-02-1934 |
15. | Eddie Collins | 1937 - 1939 | 07-04-1939 |
16. | Joe Wood | 1939 - 1941 | 05-01-1944 |
17. | Frank Quinn | 1945 - 1948 | 05-29-1949 |
18. | Dick Manville | 1945 - 1945 | 04-30-1950 |
19. | Dick Tettelbach | 1948 - 1950 | 09-25-1955 |
20. | Bob Davis | 1953 - 1955 | 07-26-1958 |
21. | Ken MacKenzie | 1955 - 1956 | 05-02-1960 |
22. | Ron Darling | 1979 - 1981 | 09-06-1983 |
23. | Craig Breslow | 2002 - 2002 | 07-23-2005 |
24. | Ryan Lavarnway | 2006 - 2007 | 08-18-2011 |
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The Yale University baseball program started in 1865, Edgar Smith was the first former Bulldog to make it to the Major League level.
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Frank Quinn was a Bulldog from 1945 through 1948, and during his tenure, he set and still holds the following records: Most Innings Pitched in a Season (141.0 in 1948), Most Wins in a Season (11 in 1947 [tied with Ron Darling who had 11 in 1980]) and Most Strikeouts in a Season (149 in 1947).