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On This Day in Baseball History: February 29
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI0 debuts21 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for February 29, newest first. Player names link to career pages where one exists, and each season links onward to that year’s awards and postseason archives.
Debuts0
Final games0
Transactions21
Born16
Died1
February 29 exists only in leap years, so every debut, final game, transaction, birth and death listed below happened in a leap year. The other three years out of four have no February 29; nothing is missing from those seasons.
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No major-league debuts are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No final games are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kansas City Royals signed free agent RHP Alan Cruz to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Cleveland Guardians signed free agent RHP Oscar Melgarejo to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent LHP Wes Helsabeck to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent RHP Connor Overton to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP Allen Webster to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent 2B Jean Walters to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Kansas City Royals signed free agent LHP Dary De Jesus to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Texas Rangers signed free agent CF Ian Desmond. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent LF David Murphy to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent LHP Yuhei Nakaushiro to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent RHP Yordi Rosario to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | San Diego Padres signed free agent LHP Anderson Polanco to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent RHP Josh Roenicke to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Garrett Mock to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | New York Yankees signed free agent RHP Alex Smith to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent RHP Josh Banks to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Billy Buckner to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | New York Yankees signed free agent LHP Rigoberto Arrebato to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent Eduar Lopez. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent LHP Edisson Rosario to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent OF Andres De Aza to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Tristan Peters |
| 1996 | Bligh Madris |
| 1992 | Gerardo Concepcion |
| 1992 | Stefan Crichton |
| 1976 | Terrence Long |
| 1960 | Bill Long |
| 1956 | Jerry Fry |
| 1952 | Al Autry |
| 1944 | Steve Mingori |
| 1924 | Al Rosen |
| 1904 | Pepper Martin |
| 1896 | Ralph Miller |
| 1896 | Roy Parker |
| 1892 | Ed Appleton |
| 1856 | Sadie Houck |
| 1836 | Dickey Pearce |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Ernie Courtney | 45 |
About these records
Every dated event on this page is read directly from the source tables: debuts, final games, birth dates and death dates from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, People table), used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0, and transactions from the official MLB StatsAPI transactions archive captured through 2026-10-22. Nothing is inferred: a record appears here only when the source carries a complete month and day for February 29.
Honesty notes: the staged People table records complete dates or none, and no partial dates had to be excluded. Missing dates are not unknowns everywhere: an empty death date means the player is living (10,918 rows), an empty final-game date means no end date is recorded (1,932 rows), and 398 rows have no birth date. Early records reach back to the 1870s; 19th-century dates reflect the best retrospective research in the source and are shown exactly as recorded. Award winners and postseason series are staged by season with no calendar day in the source, so they are linked from each season above instead of being dated here. The transaction window covers 2011 to 2026 only. Player names link to career pages for every player who has one.
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