Baseball History on February 15

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Baseball history on February 15, including a list of every Major League baseball player born on February 15, a list of every Major League baseball player who died on February 15, a list of every Major League baseball player who made their big league debut on February 15, and a list of every Major League baseball player whose final big league game was on February 15.
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Baseball History on February 15

Major League Baseball Events on February 15

1860Cub Stricker1897Fleury Sullivan
1862Joe Weber1903Phil Reccius
1865Bill Fagan1910Bug Holliday
1866Billy Hamilton1922Pete Childs
1867Charlie Reilly1925Duke Farrell
1869Charlie Irwin1931Billy Kinloch
1876Carlton Molesworth1936Bill Grahame
1886Ed Kusel1940Chick Fulmer
1888Frank Betcher1940Ray Morgan
1892Al Braithwood1943John Deering
1895Jimmy Ring1945Steve Behel
1897Art Johnson1946George Starnagle
1897Chuck Wolfe1954John Callahan
1898Bobby LaMotte1954Duke Gillespie
1900George Earnshaw1955Lynn Nelson
1904Oscar Estrada1955Tom Tennant
1905Hal Lee1959Bruce Caldwell
1906Bob Cremins1959Lefty Houtz
1909Dee Miles1961Joe Bean
1919Ducky Detweiler1963Bump Hadley
1926Bubba Harris1963Harlin Pool
1927Buddy Hicks1964Fred Trautman
1932Footer Johnson1972Pep Goodwin
1938Chuck Estrada1977Diomedes Olivo
1942Bill Henry1981Cotton Pippen
1943Don Arlich1991Julio Gonzalez
1943Joe Moeller1994Ray Blemker
1945Ross Moschitto2000Bob Ramazzotti
1948Ron Cey2002Mike Darr
1950Rick Auerbach2007Terry Enyart
1950Larry Yount2007Buddy Hancken
1951Tommy Cruz2011Joe Frazier
1956Ray Cosey2016Dave Adlesh
1959Joe Hesketh2016Virgil Jester
1961Mark Davidson2018Tom Brewer
1962Rolando Roomes2020Tony Fernandez
1963Barry Jones2024Larry Demery
1966Melido Perez2024Tom Qualters
1968Luis Mercedes
1969Brian Williams
1971Terry Jones
1974Ugueth Urbina
1975Rafael Medina
1977Alex Gonzalez
1979Luis Ugueto
1980Don Kelly
1983Russell Martin
1984Mitchell Boggs
1984Nate Schierholtz
1985Russ Mitchell
1986Johnny Cueto
1986Fautino De Los Santos
1987Rob Scahill
1989Mark Canha
1990Michael Roth
1994Tzu-Wei Lin
1997Meibrys Viloria
1999José Lopez
1999Esteury Ruiz
2000Elvis Luciano
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Players Born on, Died on, Debut on, Finished on February 15

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Baseball history on February 15 includes a total of Major League baseball players born that day of the year, Major League baseball players who died on that date, baseball players who made their Major League debut on that date, and Major League baseball players who appeared in their final game that date.

On February 15 in Baseball History...

  • 1916 - The Yankees buy Frank Home Run Baker from the Athletics for $37,500. He had sat out the 1915 season.
  • 1931 - The spring training site of the Yankees in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager.
  • 1956 - The Pirates and the Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham, Alabama, because of a local ordinance barring black players from playing against white players.
  • 1964 - Cubs second baseman Ken Hubbs, twenty-two, is found dead in his private plane which crashed on February 13, 1964, near Provo, Utah, while en route to Colton, California. As a rookie in 1962, Hubbs had played in 78 consecutive games without making an error.
  • 1990 - Owners refuse to open the spring training camps without a new Basic Agreement with the Players' Association. The lockout will last 32 days and postpone the start of the regular season by one week.

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Bill James, on the same page of the same book we used at the top of this page, said, "But as I began to do research on the history of baseball (in order to discuss the players more intelligently) I began to feel that there was a history a baseball that had not been written at that time, a history of good and ordinary players, a history of being a fan, a history of games that meant something at the time but mean nothing now." To that end, I have created Baseball Almanac. A site to worship baseball. A site by a fan who is trying to tell the history of good and ordinary baseball players.