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On This Day in Baseball History: October 22
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI1 debuts20 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for October 22, newest first. Player names link to career pages where one exists, and each season links onward to that year’s awards and postseason archives.
Debuts1
Final games0
Transactions20
Born58
Died31
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1873 | Ed Atkinson |
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No final games are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Athletics signed free agent RHP Jonathan Durantt to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent RHP Erick Reynoso to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | New York Mets signed free agent RHP Andinson Ferrer to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | New York Mets signed free agent RHP Welvis Colon to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Chih-Jung Liu to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Miami Marlins signed free agent OF Victor Mesa Jr. to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Miami Marlins signed free agent OF Victor Victor Mesa to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent RHP Christopher Collado to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent OF Carlos Cuevas to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent OF Yonathan Pierre to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent C Andy Garcia to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent SS Roberto Delgado to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RF Jayce Ray to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent LHP Cesar Cabral to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent LF Brian Bogusevic to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent RF Darin Mastroianni to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2014 transaction archive | - | |
| 2014 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent RHP Jose Appleton to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent C Moises Nunez to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent Alex Guerrero. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent 1B Nicol Valderrey to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Geraldo Perdomo |
| 1997 | Jerar Encarnacion |
| 1996 | Demarcus Evans |
| 1994 | Corbin Burnes |
| 1992 | Alen Hanson |
| 1991 | Barrett Astin |
| 1991 | Jesse Biddle |
| 1990 | Drew VerHagen |
| 1986 | Chris Rusin |
| 1986 | Justin Freeman |
| 1982 | Brian Bixler |
| 1982 | Carlos Torres |
| 1982 | Darren O'Day |
| 1982 | Robinson Cano |
| 1979 | Eli Whiteside |
| 1977 | Brad Thomas |
| 1976 | Michael Barrett |
| 1976 | Mike Colangelo |
| 1973 | Ichiro Suzuki |
| 1970 | Anthony Chavez |
| 1969 | Ariel Prieto |
| 1969 | Hector Carrasco |
| 1968 | Keith Osik |
| 1964 | Gerald Young |
| 1963 | Bill Fulton |
| 1957 | Jeff Jones |
| 1956 | Frank DiPino |
| 1954 | Jamie Quirk |
| 1953 | Rich Wortham |
| 1943 | Bobby Mitchell |
| 1942 | Cecil Upshaw |
| 1941 | Wilbur Wood |
| 1933 | Ron Jackson |
| 1920 | Jim Hickey |
| 1918 | Fred Caligiuri |
| 1918 | Lou Klein |
| 1907 | Jimmie Foxx |
| 1902 | Rusty Yarnall |
| 1900 | Bill Bishop |
| 1900 | Jumbo Elliott |
| 1899 | Ike Kahdot |
| 1897 | Myles Thomas |
| 1896 | Sam Bohne |
| 1895 | Johnny Morrison |
| 1892 | Norm McNeil |
| 1888 | Chick Lathers |
| 1883 | Bill Carrigan |
| 1882 | Mike McCormack |
| 1879 | Oscar Jones |
| 1874 | Fred Abbott |
| 1872 | Kid Carsey |
| 1872 | Mark McGrillis |
| 1868 | Charlie Weber |
| 1863 | Al Myers |
| 1857 | Ed Rowen |
| 1856 | Dan O'Leary |
| 1851 | John O'Brien |
| 1844 | Frank Barrows |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Fernando Valenzuela | 63 |
| 2017 | Darrell Osteen | 74 |
| 2015 | John Tsitouris | 79 |
| 2013 | Mark Small | 45 |
| 2011 | Roy Smalley | 85 |
| 2009 | Herman Reich | 91 |
| 2000 | Hank Wyse | 82 |
| 1984 | Babe Pinelli | 89 |
| 1981 | Taffy Wright | 70 |
| 1973 | Ben Van Dyke | 85 |
| 1970 | Cal Dorsett | 57 |
| 1965 | Lou Nagelsen | 78 |
| 1960 | Charlie Hartman | 72 |
| 1957 | Larry Pezold | 64 |
| 1956 | Frank Scheibeck | 91 |
| 1956 | John Jackson | 47 |
| 1954 | Earl Whitehill | 55 |
| 1952 | Howard McGraner | 63 |
| 1944 | Jim Brown | 53 |
| 1939 | Dale Williams | 84 |
| 1936 | Fred Olmstead | 55 |
| 1935 | Tommy Tucker | 71 |
| 1934 | Belden Hill | 70 |
| 1933 | Bobby Clack | 83 |
| 1929 | Jim Manning | 67 |
| 1929 | Walt Lerian | 26 |
| 1928 | Jack Dunn | 56 |
| 1927 | Ross Youngs | 30 |
| 1926 | Jake Aydelott | 65 |
| 1923 | Warren McLaughlin | 47 |
| 1903 | Joe Yingling | 36 |
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 22.
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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