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On This Day in Baseball History: September 9
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI236 debuts20 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for September 9, newest first. Player names link to career pages where one exists, and each season links onward to that year’s awards and postseason archives.
Debuts236
Final games89
Transactions20
Born64
Died38
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Boston Red Sox released LHP Rich Hill. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Arizona Diamondbacks released SS Nick Ahmed. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent C Irvin Nunez to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Washington Nationals signed free agent CF DJ Peters to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent RHP Daniel Ponce de Leon to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Texas Rangers signed free agent LHP Juan Yunyet to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Chicago Cubs released RHP Juan Gamez. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Kelvin Valdez to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent 1B Justin Smoak to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Toronto Blue Jays released RHP Jake Petricka. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Miami Marlins released RHP Justin Shafer. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent RHP Dauris Lopez to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RHP Jose Cabello to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RHP Luis De Jesus to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent OF Julio Francisco to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RHP Walner Polanco to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Colorado Rockies signed free agent RHP Raymells Rosa to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Colorado Rockies signed free agent SS Jesus Baptista to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Miami Marlins signed free agent LHP Jose Quijada to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent LHP Alejandro Solarte to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Troy Taylor |
| 1999 | Ben Brown |
| 1999 | Otto Kemp |
| 1997 | Nick Sogard |
| 1996 | JoJo Romero |
| 1994 | Wil Crowe |
| 1993 | Alex Young |
| 1993 | Jimmy Herget |
| 1992 | Pat Valaika |
| 1990 | Billy Hamilton |
| 1989 | Anthony Ranaudo |
| 1988 | Joey Terdoslavich |
| 1988 | Will Middlebrooks |
| 1986 | Michael Bowden |
| 1984 | Brett Pill |
| 1983 | Alex Romero |
| 1983 | Edwin Jackson |
| 1983 | Kyle Davies |
| 1983 | Mike Costanzo |
| 1983 | Rhyne Hughes |
| 1980 | Todd Coffey |
| 1978 | Kurt Ainsworth |
| 1977 | Kyle Snyder |
| 1973 | Kazuhisa Ishii |
| 1972 | Felix Rodriguez |
| 1972 | Mike Hampton |
| 1971 | Robinson Checo |
| 1970 | Dan Miceli |
| 1970 | Joey Hamilton |
| 1965 | Todd Zeile |
| 1962 | Joe Strong |
| 1961 | Jim Corsi |
| 1960 | Alvin Davis |
| 1959 | Tom Foley |
| 1953 | Steve Ratzer |
| 1952 | Jerry Mumphrey |
| 1949 | Reggie Sanders |
| 1942 | Ron Stone |
| 1938 | Jay Ward |
| 1935 | Jim Proctor |
| 1931 | Earl Averill |
| 1931 | Pete Naton |
| 1926 | Ed Mickelson |
| 1918 | Woody Crowson |
| 1913 | Hugh Mulcahy |
| 1912 | Johnny Lazor |
| 1910 | Bud Thomas |
| 1909 | Johnny Marcum |
| 1905 | Charlie Perkins |
| 1899 | Waite Hoyt |
| 1897 | Frankie Frisch |
| 1893 | Walt Kinney |
| 1892 | Tiny Graham |
| 1891 | Dan Costello |
| 1889 | Harry Thompson |
| 1887 | Doc Johnston |
| 1886 | Al Kellogg |
| 1886 | Dots Miller |
| 1880 | Ambrose Puttmann |
| 1876 | Frank Chance |
| 1872 | John Eubank |
| 1865 | Charlie Hoover |
| 1857 | Abner Dalrymple |
| 1856 | Ernie Burch |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jim Dickson | 87 |
| 2024 | Minnie Mendoza | 89 |
| 2022 | Ray Rippelmeyer | 89 |
| 2019 | Jim Archer | 87 |
| 2019 | Jim Greengrass | 91 |
| 2019 | Joe Keough | 73 |
| 2018 | Paul Stuffel | 91 |
| 2017 | Jim Donohue | 79 |
| 2016 | Carl Miles | 98 |
| 2010 | Eddie Phillips | 80 |
| 1999 | Catfish Hunter | 53 |
| 1998 | Jerry Zimmerman | 63 |
| 1997 | Richie Ashburn | 70 |
| 1996 | Harry Hanebrink | 68 |
| 1996 | Johnny Pramesa | 71 |
| 1991 | Les Rock | 79 |
| 1990 | Doc Cramer | 85 |
| 1981 | Ernie Alten | 86 |
| 1975 | Ken Jungels | 59 |
| 1964 | George Stueland | 65 |
| 1964 | Herschel Bennett | 67 |
| 1961 | Jesse Barnes | 69 |
| 1961 | Rube Oldring | 77 |
| 1959 | Terry Lyons | 50 |
| 1957 | Ed Karger | 74 |
| 1951 | Chappie Snodgrass | 81 |
| 1949 | Hal Neubauer | 47 |
| 1949 | Len Madden | 59 |
| 1944 | Frank Shugart | 77 |
| 1944 | Orlin Collier | 37 |
| 1934 | John Dobbs | 59 |
| 1928 | Urban Shocker | 37 |
| 1927 | Bill McCaffrey | 65 |
| 1926 | Dick Conway | 60 |
| 1923 | George Keerl | 76 |
| 1915 | Al Spalding | 65 |
| 1914 | Willie Garoni | 37 |
| 1889 | Jack Gorman | - |
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 September 9.
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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