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On This Day in Baseball History: October 24
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI1 debuts21 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for October 24, 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
Transactions21
Born69
Died22
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1874 | Tom Miller |
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No final games are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent RHP Sammy Zarraga to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Kansas City Royals signed free agent RHP Alving Campusano to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Johandry Ramirez to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Texas Rangers signed free agent C Francisco Perez to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Dalvin Rosario to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent 3B Josh Broughton to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2019 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Delson Guzman to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent RHP Jose Mullings to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent RHP Robinson Escobar to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2017 | St. Louis Cardinals signed free agent RHP Josue Ramirez to a minor league contract. 2017 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent RHP Micah Owings to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent 1B Art Charles to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Texas Rangers signed free agent 3B Yaniery Guzman to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Pittsburgh Pirates traded RHP Richard Mitchell to Miami Marlins for RHP Trevor Williams. 2015 transaction archive |  | |
| 2014 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent 3B Adelyn Santa to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent LHP Trevor Reckling to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent CF Jason Bourgeois to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent OF Joel Valera to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Seattle Mariners released SS Munenori Kawasaki. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Oakland Athletics signed free agent LHP Garrett Olson to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2012 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent LF Jeremy Reed to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2012 transaction archive | - |  |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Gage Workman |
| 1997 | Colin Selby |
| 1996 | Chase Shugart |
| 1996 | Rafael Devers |
| 1995 | Nick Gordon |
| 1994 | Peter Strzelecki |
| 1994 | Taylor Widener |
| 1994 | Trey Amburgey |
| 1991 | Tanner Banks |
| 1989 | Eric Hosmer |
| 1984 | Lucas May |
| 1983 | Chris Colabello |
| 1982 | Macay McBride |
| 1981 | Beltran Perez |
| 1981 | Omar Quintanilla |
| 1978 | Chris Bootcheck |
| 1977 | Rafael Furcal |
| 1974 | Wilton Guerrero |
| 1973 | Mike Matthews |
| 1969 | Arthur Rhodes |
| 1968 | Ken Ryan |
| 1967 | F. P. Santangelo |
| 1963 | Mark Grant |
| 1962 | Gene Larkin |
| 1961 | Danny Clay |
| 1961 | Rafael Belliard |
| 1961 | Steve Ziem |
| 1959 | Dave Johnson |
| 1959 | Junior Ortiz |
| 1959 | Mike Brewer |
| 1957 | Bill Hayes |
| 1957 | Ed Jurak |
| 1957 | Ron Gardenhire |
| 1956 | Gary Serum |
| 1952 | Angel Torres |
| 1952 | Omar Moreno |
| 1952 | Reggie Walton |
| 1950 | Rawly Eastwick |
| 1944 | Johnny Jeter |
| 1937 | John Goetz |
| 1933 | Bill Bell |
| 1929 | Jim Brosnan |
| 1928 | George Bullard |
| 1927 | Cal Hogue |
| 1927 | Jim Greengrass |
| 1908 | Manuel Onis |
| 1907 | Grant Bowler |
| 1906 | Pete McClanahan |
| 1905 | Charlie Small |
| 1905 | Jack Russell |
| 1904 | Harry Smythe |
| 1900 | Ossie Bluege |
| 1899 | Walter Christensen |
| 1895 | Al Pierotti |
| 1892 | Dick Niehaus |
| 1888 | Parson Perryman |
| 1887 | Eddie Stack |
| 1887 | Hugh High |
| 1885 | Del Young |
| 1871 | Chief Sockalexis |
| 1871 | George Smith |
| 1870 | Phil Routcliffe |
| 1865 | Edgar McNabb |
| 1861 | Charlie Jones |
| 1859 | Jay Faatz |
| 1858 | Bill Kuehne |
| 1858 | Sandy Griffin |
| 1857 | Dick Pierson |
| 1857 | Ed Williamson |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Benny Valenzuela | 85 |
| 2014 | Pat McGlothin | 94 |
| 2006 | Jack Radtke | 93 |
| 2001 | Bill Mueller | 80 |
| 1990 | Jim Clark | 63 |
| 1989 | Ollie O'Mara | 98 |
| 1977 | Bill Lewis | 73 |
| 1973 | Al Brazle | 60 |
| 1972 | Jackie Robinson | 53 |
| 1971 | Howard Fahey | 79 |
| 1970 | Andy Oyler | 90 |
| 1969 | Jack Bentley | 74 |
| 1965 | John Dudra | 49 |
| 1960 | Wilbur Fisher | 66 |
| 1948 | Jack Thoney | 68 |
| 1944 | Pinky Swander | 64 |
| 1941 | Emmett Rogers | 74 |
| 1938 | George Borchers | 69 |
| 1931 | Pete Lamer | 57 |
| 1916 | Hi Ebright | 57 |
| 1913 | Dan Shannon | 48 |
| 1897 | Thomas 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 October 24.
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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