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On This Day in Baseball History: October 10
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI5 debuts17 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for October 10, newest first. Player names link to career pages where one exists, and each season links onward to that year’s awards and postseason archives.
Debuts5
Final games26
Transactions17
Born73
Died34
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1898 | Harry Howell | |
| 1898 | Lefty Hopper | |
| 1889 | Red Bittmann | 1889 postseason |
| 1888 | Julie Freeman | 1888 postseason |
| 1886 | Tony Hellman | 1886 postseason |
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Earl Moore | 1914 awards · 1914 postseason |
| 1914 | Johnny Bates | 1914 awards · 1914 postseason |
| 1914 | Larry Schlafly | 1914 awards · 1914 postseason |
| 1914 | Rinaldo Williams | 1914 awards · 1914 postseason |
| 1904 | Fred Applegate | |
| 1904 | Lou Bruce | |
| 1898 | Butts Wagner | |
| 1898 | Ed Biecher | |
| 1890 | Charlie Sprague | 1890 postseason |
| 1888 | Frank Hoffman | 1888 postseason |
| 1888 | Julie Freeman | 1888 postseason |
| 1887 | Billy Otterson | 1887 postseason |
| 1887 | Bobby Mathews | 1887 postseason |
| 1887 | Clarence Cross | 1887 postseason |
| 1887 | Ed Greer | 1887 postseason |
| 1887 | Fred Mann | 1887 postseason |
| 1886 | Mike Muldoon | 1886 postseason |
| 1886 | Tony Hellman | 1886 postseason |
| 1885 | Bill Crowley | 1885 postseason |
| 1885 | Jim McDonald | 1885 postseason |
| 1885 | Lon Knight | 1885 postseason |
| 1884 | Anton Falch | 1884 postseason |
| 1884 | Ed Ford | 1884 postseason |
| 1884 | Harry Arundel | 1884 postseason |
| 1884 | Henry Oxley | 1884 postseason |
| 1884 | Jud Birchall | 1884 postseason |
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Steven Garcia to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Sebastian Rondon to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - | |
| 2025 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Hicter Ruiz to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - | |
| 2025 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent LHP Cristopher Silvestre to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent LHP Luis Carrasco to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RHP Juan Mateo to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Miami Marlins traded RHP Kyle Barraclough to Washington Nationals for Future Considerations. 2018 transaction archive |  |  |
| 2018 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent RHP Danifer Diaz to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Yohandry Perez to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2017 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent OF Hanley Acevedo to a minor league contract. 2017 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent 1B Kevin Davidson to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Chicago Cubs signed free agent RHP Francisco Gracia to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent RHP Jaime Arauz to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Dalier Hinojosa to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Washington Nationals signed free agent OF Telmito Agustin to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | New York Yankees signed free agent RHP Jose Baez to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent OF George Barber to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - |  |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 2002 | Alejandro Osuna |
| 1999 | Luis Vázquez |
| 1998 | Guillermo Zuñiga |
| 1997 | Leo Rivas |
| 1997 | Vinnie Pasquantino |
| 1996 | Genesis Cabrera |
| 1995 | Collin Snider |
| 1995 | Nick Vespi |
| 1995 | Nicklaus Snyder |
| 1994 | David Bednar |
| 1994 | Garrett Hampson |
| 1993 | Lourdes Gurriel |
| 1990 | Jonathan Aro |
| 1990 | Kolten Wong |
| 1990 | Shelby Miller |
| 1989 | Isaac Galloway |
| 1989 | Jeurys Familia |
| 1988 | Fernando Martinez |
| 1987 | Adrian Cardenas |
| 1987 | Elvin Ramirez |
| 1986 | Andrew McCutchen |
| 1984 | Troy Tulowitzki |
| 1980 | Noah Lowry |
| 1979 | Brad Ziegler |
| 1976 | Pat Burrell |
| 1975 | Placido Polanco |
| 1974 | Luther Hackman |
| 1973 | Brian Powell |
| 1972 | Mike Holtz |
| 1972 | Ramon Martinez |
| 1966 | Francisco Cabrera |
| 1960 | Bill Moore |
| 1959 | Don Gordon |
| 1959 | Jim Weaver |
| 1959 | Les Straker |
| 1950 | Terry Enyart |
| 1949 | Larry Lintz |
| 1949 | Rob Sperring |
| 1947 | Roger Metzger |
| 1946 | Gene Tenace |
| 1940 | Grover Powell |
| 1940 | Larry Maxie |
| 1937 | Gordie Sundin |
| 1932 | Hal Raether |
| 1929 | Bobby Tiefenauer |
| 1922 | Mickey Kreitner |
| 1921 | Hank Riebe |
| 1919 | Lee Pfund |
| 1916 | Floyd Baker |
| 1915 | Harry Eisenstat |
| 1914 | Italo Chelini |
| 1914 | Tommy Fine |
| 1905 | John Stone |
| 1905 | Wally Berger |
| 1903 | Fay Thomas |
| 1902 | Homer Peel |
| 1894 | Myrl Brown |
| 1892 | Rich Durning |
| 1888 | Toots Shultz |
| 1887 | Bill Killefer |
| 1887 | Paul Fittery |
| 1886 | Bill Forman |
| 1879 | Homer Hillebrand |
| 1878 | Otto Hess |
| 1877 | Otto Deininger |
| 1869 | Bill Moran |
| 1868 | Dave Anderson |
| 1867 | Ad Gumbert |
| 1867 | Shorty Fuller |
| 1864 | Charlie Sprague |
| 1862 | Dennis Driscoll |
| 1858 | Mike Corcoran |
| 1854 | Bill Tobin |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Gaylen Pitts | 78 |
| 2022 | Dick Ellsworth | 82 |
| 2018 | Don Eddy | 71 |
| 2015 | Garry Hancock | 61 |
| 2009 | Larry Jansen | 89 |
| 2008 | Sid Hudson | 93 |
| 2004 | Ken Caminiti | 41 |
| 2003 | Johnny Klippstein | 75 |
| 2002 | Joe Wood | 86 |
| 2001 | Dave Gerard | 65 |
| 1998 | El Tappe | 71 |
| 1998 | Strick Shofner | 79 |
| 1995 | Ed Gill | 100 |
| 1990 | George Barnicle | 73 |
| 1990 | Wally Moses | 80 |
| 1986 | Russ Van Atta | 80 |
| 1977 | Jim Lyle | 77 |
| 1970 | Lefty Leifield | 87 |
| 1966 | Patsy Gharrity | 74 |
| 1960 | Hub Hart | 82 |
| 1947 | Slim Embry | 46 |
| 1946 | Bill Jones | 59 |
| 1946 | Walter Clarkson | 67 |
| 1944 | Louis LeRoy | 65 |
| 1943 | Harry Vahrenhorst | 58 |
| 1933 | Joe Kostal | 57 |
| 1926 | John Foreman | 52 |
| 1921 | Al Nevin | 71 |
| 1918 | George LeClair | 31 |
| 1912 | Bill Tobin | 58 |
| 1911 | Bill Parks | 62 |
| 1903 | John Valentine | 47 |
| 1893 | Lip Pike | 48 |
| 1883 | Jim Devlin | 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 October 10.
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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