Baseball History on December 17

Major League Baseball Events on December 17 | Baseball Almanac

Baseball history on December 17, including a list of every Major League baseball player born on December 17, a list of every Major League baseball player who died on December 17, a list of every Major League baseball player who made their big league debut on December 17, and a list of every Major League baseball player whose final big league game was on December 17.
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Baseball History on December 17

Major League Baseball Events on December 17

1859Bill Hutchison1891Ed Springer
1867Babe Doty1916Scoops Carey
1867Jack Wadsworth1916Elias Peak
1875Jim McHale1927Bill Gilbert
1876Roy Patterson1933Charlie DeArmond
1880Cy Falkenberg1935Charlie Atherton
1883Rebel Oakes1947Lee Viau
1886Jack McAdams1953Walt DeVoy
1889Ben Harris1953Lou McEvoy
1893Bert Yeabsley1954Red Proctor
1896Jim Mattox1955Rube DeGroff
1898Red Lutz1956Ona Dodd
1898Oscar Tuero1957Fritz Ostermueller
1900Karl Swanson1958Les Scarsella
1914Dave Smith1959Del Young
1918Dale Jones1961Ping Bodie
1919Johnny Kucab1968Hank Severeid
1920Mike Schultz1970Jim Park
1926Ray Jablonski1975Kerby Farrell
1934Kent Hadley1985Elmer Bowman
1936Jerry Adair1985Ken O'Dea
1936Rollie Sheldon1989Zeb Eaton
1938Leo Cardenas1991Jesse Flores
1947Charlie Sands1995George Cox
1957Mark Dempsey1997Mel Mazzera
1957Bob Ojeda2006Larry Sherry
1959Bryan Clutterbuck2008Dave Smith
1959Marvell Wynne2010Walt Dropo
1967Steve Parris2012Frank Pastore
1967Rafael Valdez2015Hal Brown
1968Curtis Pride2017Doug Gallagher
1969Rudy Pemberton2020Bob Raudman
1970Mike Cather2022Wilbur Howard
1971Bret Hemphill
1975Brandon Villafuerte
1976Edwin Almonte
1976Jason Dellaero
1976Eric Eckenstahler
1978Alex Cintron
1978Chase Utley
1979David Kelton
1980Dale Thayer
1982Josh Barfield
1982Juan Mateo
1984Stu Pomeranz
1985Fernando Abad
1986Josh Edgin
1987Donovan Solano
1987Travis Tartamella
1990Taylor Rogers
1990Tyler Rogers
1992Miguel Gomez
1992Daniel Vogelbach
1993Josh Sborz
1996Darwinzon Hernandez
1997Brent Headrick
1999Ryan Weathers
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Players Born on, Died on, Debut on, Finished on December 17

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Baseball history on December 17 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 December 17 in Baseball History...

  • 1920 - The AL votes to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are in the league. The NL will do the same. There will be 17 holdover spitballers in all.
  • 1928 - NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea gets the backing of John McGraw, but the AL is against it.
  • 1932 - Jim Bottomley, who hit .300 or better in nine of eleven seasons with the Cardinals, is traded to the Reds for outfielder Estel Crabtree and pitcher Ownie Carroll.

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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.