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Thursday, September 9, 2021
79 Years Ago in baseball history
Today is September 9th 2021. Seventy-nine years ago today, Eddie Robinson made his major league debut for the Cleveland Indians. Eddie, is currently the oldest living former magor league. In addition to the Indians Robinson also played the majority of his career for the White Sox, Yankees, Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics and Washington Senators. He also saw limited service with the Detroit Tigers and Baltiomor Orioles in his final year of baseball in 1957. Robinson turned 100 on December 15th of last year
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50 left from Twenties
Rank | Player | Games Played/Teams With | DOB | Age |
Oldest | Eddie Robinson | 1315 games – 7 Teams:( Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles.) | 12/15/1920 | 100 |
2nd Oldest | George Elder | 41 games St. Louis Browns | 3/10/1921 | 100 |
3rd Oldest | Eddie Basinski | 203 Games 2 Teams ( Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates) | 11/4/1922 | 98 |
4th Oldest | Tim Thompson | 187 Games 3 Teams (Brooklyn Dodgers, Kansas City Athletics, and Detroit Tigers) | 03/01/1924 | 97 |
5th Oldest | Art Schallock | 58 Games (New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles) | 4/25/1924 | 97 |
6th Oldest | Bill Greason | 3 games St. Louis Cardinals | 9/3/1924 | 96 |
7th Oldest | Larry Miggins | 43 games St. Louis Cardinals | 8/20/1925 | 95 |
8th Oldest | Paul Hindrichs | 4 games Boston Red Sox | 8/31/1925 | 95 |
9th Oldest | Bobby Shantz | 578 games – 6 teams ( Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Colt 45’s, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and Philadelphia Phillies) | 9/26/1925 | 95 |
10th Oldest | Chris Haughey | 1 game Brooklyn Dodgers | 10/3/1925 | 95 |
11th Oldest | Frank Saucier | 18 games: St. Louis Browns | 5/28/1926 | 95 |
12th Oldest | Bobby Morgan | 671 games: 4 teams (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and Chicago Cubs ) | 6/29/1926 | 95 |
13th Oldest | Johnny Groth | 1,248 games: 5 teams ( Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, and Kansas City Athletics ) | 7/23/1926 | 95 |
14th Oldest | Ed Mickelson | 18 games: 3 teams (St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, and Chicago Cubs ) | 9/9/1926 | 94 |
15th Oldest | Carl Erskine | 360 games: Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers | 12/13/1926 | 94 |
16th Oldest | Jim Willis | 27 games: Chicago Cubs | 3/20/1927 | 94 |
17th Oldest | Charlie Maxwell | 1133 games 4 (Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox) | 4/8/1927 | 94 |
18th Oldest | Billy Gardner | 1,034 games: 6 Teams (New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, and Boston Red Sox) | 7/19/1927 | 94 |
19th Oldest | Cloyd Boyer | 113 games: 2 teams ( St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Athletics ) | 9/1/1927 | 93 |
20th Oldest | Dave Hillman | 197 games: 4 teams ( Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, and New York Mets ) | 9/14/1927 | 93 |
21st Oldest | Bill Harington | 58 games: Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics | 10/3/1927 | 93 |
22nd Oldest | Bob Kelly | 123 games: 3 teams (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians ) | 10/4/1927 | 93 |
23rd Oldest | Tommy Brown | 494 games: 3 teams (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago Cubs ) | 12/6/1927 | 93 |
24th Oldest | Bob Oldis | 135 games: 3 teams (Washington Senators, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Philadelphia Phillies) | 1/5/1928 | 93 |
25th Oldest | Felipe Montemayor | 64 games: Pittsburgh Pirates | 2/7/1928 | 93 |
26th Oldest | Roy Face | 853 games:3 teams ( Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, and Montreal Expos) | 2/20/1928 | 93 |
27th Oldest | Billy Hunter | 630 games: 5 teams (St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, and Cleveland Indians) | 6/4/1928 | 93 |
28th Oldest | John Glenn | 32 games: St. Louis Cardinals 29 | 6/101928 | 93 |
29th Oldest | Vito Valentinetti | 108 games: 5 teams ( Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, and Washington Senators) | 9/16/1928 | 92 |
30th Oldest | Fred Marolewski | 1 game: St. Louis Cardinals | 10/6/1928 | 92 |
31st Oldest | Gail Henley | 14 games: Pittsburgh Pirates | 10/15/1928 | 92 |
32nd Oldest | Mickey Micelotta | 17 games Philadelphia Phillies | 10/20/1928 | 92 |
33rd Oldest | Bob Ross | 20 games 2 teams Washington Senators and Philadelphia Phillies | 11/2/1928 | 92 |
34th Oldest | Bill Wilson | 224 games 2 teams (Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics) | 11/6/1928 | 92 |
35th Oldest | Moe Savransky | 16 Games Cincinatti Reds | 1/13/1929 | 92 |
36th Oldest | Gale Wade | 19 games: Chicago Cubs 37 | 1/20/1929 | 92 |
37th Oldest | Bobby Kline | 77 games Washington Senators | 1/27/1929 | 92 |
38th Oldest | Al Worthington | 602 games 5 teams (New York & San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and Minnesota Twins). | 2/5/1929 | 92 |
39th Oldest | Mel Held | 4 games Baltimore Orioles | 4/12/1929 | 92 |
40th Oldest | Ed Winceniak | 32 games Chicago Cubs | 4/16/1929 | 92 |
41st Oldest | Curt Simmons | 609 games: 4 teams (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and California Angels) | 5/19/1929 | 92 |
42nd Oldest | Hank Foiles | 608 games 7 teams (Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Angels) | 6/10/1929 | 92 |
43rd Oldest | Frank Thomas | 1756 games 7 teams (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros) | 6/11/1929 | 92 |
44th Oldest | Don Ferrarese | 184 games 5 teams ( Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals) | 6/19/1929 | 92 |
45th Oldest | Hector Lopez | 1450 games 2 teams (Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees) | 7/8/1929 | 92 |
46th Oldest | Jerry Snyder | 266 games Washington Senators | 7/21/1929 | 92 |
47th Oldest | Joe Pignatano | 307 games 4 teams (Brooklyn & L.A. Dodgers, Kansas City Atletics, San Francisco Giants and New York Mets) | 8/4/1929 | 92 |
48th Oldest | Ike Delock | 329 games 2 teams (Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles) | 11/11/1929 | 91 |
49th Oldest | Carl Linhart | 3 games Detroit Tigers | 12/14/1929 | 91 |
50th Oldest | Ray Herbert | 408 games 4 teams (Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Phillies) | 12/15/1929 | 91 |
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