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On This Day in Baseball History: September 23
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI99 debuts30 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for September 23, newest first. Player names link to career pages where one exists, and each season links onward to that year’s awards and postseason archives.
Debuts99
Final games243
Transactions30
Born50
Died28
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent RHP Joel Cruz to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Houston Astros signed free agent RHP Jeremy Martinez to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent RHP Jake Petricka to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent 1B John Nogowski to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Andy Garcia to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Miguel Guerrero to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent RHP Jean Munoz to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2017 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent OF Angel Maita to a minor league contract. 2017 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2017 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent OF Jesus Maita to a minor league contract. 2017 transaction archive | - | |
| 2017 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent LHP Abraham Figueroa to a minor league contract. 2017 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Texas Rangers signed free agent OF Yanio Perez to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent RHP Kaleb Ort to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent RHP Brandon Stephens to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent CF Andrew Toles to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | New York Mets signed free agent RHP Briam Campusano to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent RHP Stew Brase to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - | |
| 2014 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent RHP Troy Marks to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - | |
| 2014 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent LHP Al Yevoli to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - | |
| 2014 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent C Matt Jones to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - | |
| 2014 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent 3B Shayne Houck to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - | |
| 2014 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent LHP Jose Velez to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent RHP Ricardo Angel to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Justin Freeman to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent LHP Nathan Reed to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent RHP Henry Martinez to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed RHP Kyle Schepel. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Philadelphia Phillies traded LHP Mike Zagurski to Arizona Diamondbacks. 2011 transaction archive |  | |
| 2011 | Philadelphia Phillies released RHP Drew Naylor. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent IF Deiferson Barreto to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2011 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent RHP Shao-Ching Chiang to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 1996 | Easton Lucas |
| 1989 | Trevor May |
| 1988 | Jedd Gyorko |
| 1987 | Gonzalez Germen |
| 1987 | Xavier Scruggs |
| 1986 | Chris Volstad |
| 1985 | Joba Chamberlain |
| 1984 | Matt Kemp |
| 1983 | Miguel Gonzalez |
| 1980 | Mike Gosling |
| 1977 | Brent Abernathy |
| 1975 | Dave Elder |
| 1974 | Eric Knott |
| 1972 | Pep Harris |
| 1971 | Willie Greene |
| 1969 | Jeff Cirillo |
| 1968 | Rod Bolton |
| 1966 | Pete Harnisch |
| 1963 | Terry McGriff |
| 1959 | Jim Winn |
| 1957 | Tony Fossas |
| 1953 | Brian Asselstine |
| 1952 | Dennis Lamp |
| 1952 | Jim Morrison |
| 1952 | Pat Scanlon |
| 1943 | Marcelino Lopez |
| 1943 | Oscar Zamora |
| 1943 | Winston Llenas |
| 1942 | Jim Rooker |
| 1942 | Woody Woodward |
| 1924 | Dino Restelli |
| 1922 | Lino Donoso |
| 1920 | Marino Pieretti |
| 1914 | Mack Stewart |
| 1913 | Pete Sivess |
| 1909 | Al Mahon |
| 1900 | Lefty Stewart |
| 1898 | George Murray |
| 1898 | Horace Lisenbee |
| 1897 | Walt Irwin |
| 1895 | Johnny Mokan |
| 1889 | Walter Schaller |
| 1887 | Doc Martin |
| 1886 | Bob Higgins |
| 1886 | Joe Kelly |
| 1880 | Cecil Neighbors |
| 1880 | Heinie Wagner |
| 1874 | Frank McManus |
| 1874 | Lee DeMontreville |
| 1870 | Bill Massey |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Danny Morris | 77 |
| 2012 | Roberto Rodriguez | 71 |
| 2011 | Danny Litwhiler | 95 |
| 2010 | Bob Shaw | 77 |
| 2000 | Aurelio Rodriguez | 52 |
| 1982 | Howard Mills | 72 |
| 1973 | Jesse Fowler | 74 |
| 1964 | Cy Barger | 79 |
| 1962 | Tom Sullivan | 66 |
| 1961 | Ted Jourdan | 66 |
| 1960 | Paul Hinson | 56 |
| 1958 | Bill Mundy | 69 |
| 1955 | Gary Fortune | 60 |
| 1954 | John Wilson | 64 |
| 1951 | Dale Gear | 79 |
| 1948 | Rich Durning | 55 |
| 1942 | Tom Thomas | 68 |
| 1941 | Tom Morrissey | - |
| 1932 | Oliver Brown | 83 |
| 1924 | Dan McFarlan | 49 |
| 1922 | Butch Rementer | 44 |
| 1922 | Henry Jones | 62 |
| 1920 | Walter Curley | 46 |
| 1916 | Monk Cline | 58 |
| 1915 | Brickyard Kennedy | 47 |
| 1907 | Charlie Buffinton | 46 |
| 1901 | James McJames | 27 |
| 1896 | John Crowley | 34 |
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 23.
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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