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On This Day in Baseball History: October 11
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI3 debuts22 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for October 11, newest first. Player names link to career pages where one exists, and each season links onward to that year’s awards and postseason archives.
Debuts3
Final games19
Transactions22
Born55
Died37
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1890 | Horace Helmbold | 1890 postseason |
| 1890 | Sam Campbell | 1890 postseason |
| 1888 | Pat Whitaker | 1888 postseason |
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Barney Slaughter | 1910 postseason |
| 1910 | Bill Culp | 1910 postseason |
| 1910 | Charlie Girard | 1910 postseason |
| 1910 | Ed Hendricks | 1910 postseason |
| 1910 | Ed McDonough | 1910 postseason |
| 1890 | Al Sauter | 1890 postseason |
| 1890 | Ed Cushman | 1890 postseason |
| 1890 | Ed Green | 1890 postseason |
| 1890 | Gus Creely | 1890 postseason |
| 1890 | Horace Helmbold | 1890 postseason |
| 1890 | John Keefe | 1890 postseason |
| 1890 | John Riddle | 1890 postseason |
| 1890 | Sam Campbell | 1890 postseason |
| 1889 | George Bausewine | 1889 postseason |
| 1886 | Dave Oldfield | 1886 postseason |
| 1886 | Jim Lillie | 1886 postseason |
| 1884 | Joe Ellick | 1884 postseason |
| 1884 | Jumbo Latham | 1884 postseason |
| 1884 | Thomas Griffin | 1884 postseason |
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent OF Albertson Asigen to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2019 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent C Claudio Richetti to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Chicago Cubs signed free agent RHP Edgar Mercedes to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2019 | Chicago Cubs signed free agent OF Gabriel Disla to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | New York Yankees signed free agent RHP Josue Panacual to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent 2B Diego Verbel to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Edwin Jimenez to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent SS Nelson Marin to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Ronnald Rojas to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Hawtin Buchanan to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Colorado Rockies signed free agent C Bernnie Alaniz to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent RHP Christopher Bonilla to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Miami Marlins signed free agent RHP Elkin Alcala to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent RHP Pedro Garcia to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RHP Chris Volstad to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP Felix Taveras to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Miami Marlins signed free agent RHP Brett Wallach to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Miami Marlins signed free agent LHP Juan Silvestre to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent OF Arby Fields to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent SS Doug Bernier to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RHP Pete Perez to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent C Daniel Canellas to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - |  |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 1996 | J. B. Bukauskas |
| 1996 | Josh Winder |
| 1995 | Mickey Gasper |
| 1992 | Grayson Greiner |
| 1991 | Gio Urshela |
| 1989 | Jenrry Mejia |
| 1989 | Josh Smith |
| 1989 | Tomoyuki Sugano |
| 1988 | David Goforth |
| 1984 | Max Ramirez |
| 1982 | Jeff Larish |
| 1979 | Shane Youman |
| 1977 | Ty Wigginton |
| 1976 | Carl Sadler |
| 1974 | Jesus Sanchez |
| 1974 | Mike Duvall |
| 1973 | Dmitri Young |
| 1971 | Joe Roa |
| 1969 | Larry Luebbers |
| 1966 | Gregg Olson |
| 1965 | Erik Johnson |
| 1965 | Orlando Hernandez |
| 1960 | Curt Ford |
| 1959 | Pat Dodson |
| 1949 | Bob Jones |
| 1947 | Charlie Williams |
| 1947 | Rick James |
| 1946 | Jarvis Tatum |
| 1945 | Bob Stinson |
| 1944 | Mike Fiore |
| 1938 | Bill Roman |
| 1931 | Gary Blaylock |
| 1930 | Bill Fischer |
| 1929 | Skeeter Kell |
| 1926 | Joe Ginsberg |
| 1918 | Bob Chipman |
| 1917 | Vince Castino |
| 1912 | Mike Guerra |
| 1912 | Wayne Osborne |
| 1906 | Tom Carey |
| 1905 | Joel Hunt |
| 1899 | Eddie Dyer |
| 1899 | Ernie Smith |
| 1894 | Gary Fortune |
| 1888 | Dwight Wertz |
| 1882 | Buck Washer |
| 1878 | Frank Roth |
| 1869 | Alex McFarlan |
| 1869 | Yale Murphy |
| 1867 | Emmett Rogers |
| 1866 | Bill Husted |
| 1865 | Jerry Kane |
| 1859 | Bill Burdick |
| 1858 | Buttercup Dickerson |
| 1854 | Will White |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Jay Porter | 87 |
| 2020 | Joe Morgan | 77 |
| 2015 | Dean Chance | 74 |
| 2012 | Champ Summers | 66 |
| 2011 | Cy Buker | 93 |
| 2011 | Paul Martin | 79 |
| 2008 | Kevin Foster | 39 |
| 2006 | Cory Lidle | 34 |
| 2006 | Eddie Pellagrini | 88 |
| 1994 | Bobby Brooks | 48 |
| 1994 | Charlie Cuellar | 77 |
| 1993 | Emmett O'Neill | 75 |
| 1993 | Lee Walls | 60 |
| 1991 | Clay Kirby | 43 |
| 1989 | Bill Phebus | 80 |
| 1986 | Norm Cash | 52 |
| 1979 | Abe Bowman | 86 |
| 1972 | Danny Taylor | 71 |
| 1966 | Red Smith | 76 |
| 1965 | Willis Cole | 83 |
| 1964 | Stan Gray | 75 |
| 1962 | Bill Bell | 28 |
| 1958 | Ira Thomas | 77 |
| 1952 | Roy Beecher | 68 |
| 1951 | Bob Becker | 76 |
| 1947 | Doc Martell | 64 |
| 1935 | Chick Smith | 42 |
| 1935 | George Pierce | 47 |
| 1934 | Sandy Burk | 47 |
| 1932 | Ed Spurney | 60 |
| 1928 | Frank Smith | 70 |
| 1927 | Ed Hughes | 47 |
| 1927 | Mike Corcoran | 69 |
| 1920 | George Adams | 65 |
| 1916 | Harry Luff | 64 |
| 1907 | Whitey Gibson | 39 |
| 1891 | Will Smalley | 20 |
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 11.
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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