Baseball History on October 26

Major League Baseball Events on October 26 | Baseball Almanac

Baseball history on October 26, including a list of every Major League baseball player born on October 26, a list of every Major League baseball player who died on October 26, a list of every Major League baseball player who made their big league debut on October 26, and a list of every Major League baseball player whose final big league game was on October 26.
Baseball Almanac Top Quote

"No matter how your mind works, baseball reaches out to you. If you're an emotional person, baseball asks for your heart. If you are a thinking man or a thinking woman, baseball wants your opinion. Whether you are left-brain or right-brain, Type A or Type Z, whether your mind is bent towards mathematics or toward history or psychology or geometry, whether you are young or old, baseball has its way of asking for you. If you are a reader, there is always something new to read about baseball, and always something old. If you are a sedentary person, a TV watcher, baseball is on TV; if you always have to be going somewhere, baseball is somewhere you can go. If you are a collector, baseball offers you a hundred things that you can collect. If you have children, baseball is something you can do with children; if you have parents and cannot talk to them, baseball is something you can still talk to them about." - Baseball Historian Bill James in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (Free Press Publishing, 06/13/2003, "Part 1: The Game", Page 5)

Baseball History on October 26

Major League Baseball Events on October 26

1857Fred Gunkle1893Dan Sullivan
1865Kid Gleason1909Frank Siffell
1865Andy Sommers1918Charlie Rhodes
1867Bill Garfield1931Charlie Comiskey
1867Parke Wilson1939Ed Lennox
1873Ed High1945Ernie Gust
1875John Gilroy1949Lou Mahaffey
1877Doc Newton1952Tom Angley
1878Charlie Swindells1952Mike Murphy
1880Lee Tannehill1955Jack Bushelman
1881Gerry Shea1956Red Nelson
1882Jock Somerlott1957Erwin Renfer
1884Harry Camnitz1963Newt Hunter
1885Harry Chapman1966Bill Cronin
1886Swede Carlstrom1969Jim Blackburn
1888Dick Hoblitzell1970Willie Underhill
1889Tommy Griffith1976Eddie Silber
1897Skipper Friday1981Harry Hoch
1897George Winn1982Bud Podbielan
1898Roy Moore1984Gus Mancuso
1899Otto Vogel1985Bob Scheffing
1904Monk Sherlock1986Ed Holley
1910Hugh Shelley1991Bill Bevens
1913Herb Bremer2004Bobby Avila
1918Snuffy Stirnweiss2004Russ Derry
1919Bud Byerly2006Bill Graham
1919Jack Cassini2006Fred Marsh
1923Tommy Glaviano2009Bill Kirk
1926Dick Bokelmann2011Dave Cole
1936Elio Chacon2014Jeff Robinson
1947Bill Gogolewski2014Oscar Taveras
1948Toby Harrah2021Bobby Kline
1949Mike Hargrove2023Bobby Guindon
1949Steve Rogers
1950Dave Coleman
1950Wayne Garland
1951Steve Ontiveros
1957Harry Chappas
1958Ed Vande Berg
1958Frank Wills
1961Gus Polidor
1964Steve Adkins
1965Zach Crouch
1965Gil Heredia
1967Rafael Novoa
1968Scott Lydy
1969Mark Sweeney
1972Armando Almanza
1974Marty McLeary
1975Ryan Bradley
1977Scott Sobkowiak
1978Jaime Cerda
1983Francisco Liriano
1984Jesus Flores
1989Wilfredo Boscan
1989Danny Coulombe
1991Dominic Leone
1992Eric Skoglund
1992Dwight Smith Jr.
1994Jack Kruger
1994Joe Palumbo
1999Luis Patiņo
2000Curtis Mead
--None 1997Darren Daulton
2005Jeff Bagwell
2006John Rodriguez
2014Jayson Nix

Players Born on, Died on, Debut on, Finished on October 26

baseball almanac flat baseball

baseball almanac fast facts

Baseball history on October 26 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 October 26 in Baseball History...

  • 1911 - Danny Murphy of Philadelphia had four hits as the Athletics beat the New York Giants 13-2 to win the World Series in six games. The A's put the game out of reach with a seven-run seventh inning.
  • 1931 - Charles Comiskey dies at age 72. The White Sox owner and pioneer player never recovered from the betrayal of the 1919 World Series.
  • 1950 - The Baseball Writers of America select Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto as AL MVP. Rizzuto had 200 hits, 125 runs scored, and a .324 batting average, but drove in just 66 runs.
  • 1971 - Oakland's Vida Blue wins the AL Cy Young Award by a 98-85 margin over Mickey Lolich of the Tigers. Blue was 24-8 for the A's, posting 301 strikeouts, eight shutouts, and a 1.82 ERA. Ferguson Jenkins won the Cy Young Award in the NL.
  • 1977 - Sparky Lyle becomes the first AL reliever to win the Cy Young Award. Lyle leads the league with 72 appearances, posting a 13-5 record with 26 saves and a 2.17 ERA.
  • 1979 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn notifies Hall of Famer Willie Mays that if he accepts a position with Bally Manufacturing Corporation, owner of several gambling casinos, he must disassociate himself from major league baseball. Mays, a part-time coach and goodwill ambassador for the Mets, will relinquish his duties upon accepting Bally's job offer.
  • 1982 - Steve Carlton becomes the first pitcher to win four Cy Young Awards. The Phils 37-year-old lefthander, who led the NL in wins (23), innings (295.2), strikeouts (286), and shutouts (six), was a previous winner in 1972, 1977, and 1980.
  • 1985 - Dane Iorg's two-run single and a disputed call by first base umpire Don Denkinger in the ninth inning gave the Kansas City Royals a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals and tied the World Series after six games. St. Louis scored its run on a bloop single by Brian Harper in the eighth inning.
  • 1991 - Kirby Puckett prevents two Atlanta runs with a leaping catch in the third inning and then lofts a sacrifice fly in the fifth to give the Twins the lead in Game Six. The Braves tie it in the seventh, but Puckett turned out the lights in the 10th with a home run to force a seventh game.
  • 1995 - Orel Hershiser allows just two runs over eight innings and Jose Mesa survives a two-run home run by Ryan Klesko in the ninth inning to give the Indians a 5-4 win in Game Five.
  • 1996 - A three-run third inning is all the Yankees need. Series MVP John Wetteland pitches out of trouble in the ninth as the Yankees win the World Series for the first time since 1978.
  • 1997 - Edgar Renteria ended one of the most thrilling Game 7s ever, singling with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning to give the Florida Marlins their first World Series championship with a 3-2 win over the Cleveland Indians. The 5-year-old Marlins became the youngest expansion team to win a championship.
  • 1998 - The New York Mets announced All-Star catcher Mike Piazza agreed to a seven-year, $91 million contract, the richest deal in baseball history.

Did you know that there were baseball players born on every date of the year and baseball players who died on every date of the year? Use the calendar below to select any date in baseball history.
 

JanuaryFebruary
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
29
MarchApril
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930
MayJune
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930
JulyAugust
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
SeptemberOctober
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031
NovemberDecember
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031

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.