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On This Day in Baseball History: October 27
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI1 debuts14 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for October 27, 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
Transactions14
Born65
Died29
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1874 | Jack Farrell |
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No final games are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent C Jason Delay to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent RHP Nick Putnam to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Atlanta Braves released RHP Edgar Santana. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | St. Louis Cardinals signed free agent CF Miguel Marcos to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | St. Louis Cardinals signed free agent 3B Brandon Hernandez to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | St. Louis Cardinals signed free agent RHP Oliver Lopez to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2017 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent LHP Argenis Batista to a minor league contract. 2017 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Miami Marlins signed free agent C Corey Bass to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Miami Marlins signed free agent 3B David Vidal to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2014 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent RHP Luis Santos to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent C Jesus Tona to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent RHP Fabio Martinez to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent OF Ranyelmy Mendoza to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2011 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent OF Ayendy Perez to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Francisco Morales |
| 1998 | Niko Kavadas |
| 1997 | Tyler Phillips |
| 1995 | Bryce Johnson |
| 1995 | Francisco Mejia |
| 1990 | Carlos Perez |
| 1990 | Jason Wheeler |
| 1989 | Ruben Tejada |
| 1988 | T. J. Rivera |
| 1987 | Ben Paulsen |
| 1987 | Jay Jackson |
| 1986 | Jonathon Niese |
| 1986 | Pedro Beato |
| 1985 | Kyle Waldrop |
| 1983 | Brent Clevlen |
| 1983 | Martin Prado |
| 1980 | Kelvin Jimenez |
| 1977 | Onan Masaoka |
| 1976 | Simon Pond |
| 1974 | Denny Stark |
| 1973 | Jason Johnson |
| 1972 | Brad Radke |
| 1971 | Scott Forster |
| 1970 | Pedro Swann |
| 1965 | Bobby Moore |
| 1963 | Bip Roberts |
| 1963 | Eric Bell |
| 1962 | Mike Dunne |
| 1962 | Terry Bell |
| 1961 | Bill Swift |
| 1960 | Ron Shepherd |
| 1960 | Tom Nieto |
| 1953 | Barry Bonnell |
| 1953 | U. L. Washington |
| 1952 | Bill Travers |
| 1952 | Gil Flores |
| 1952 | Pete Vuckovich |
| 1949 | Jim Burton |
| 1946 | Rick Austin |
| 1945 | Mike Lum |
| 1940 | Hector Valle |
| 1936 | Lee Stange |
| 1933 | Pumpsie Green |
| 1922 | Del Rice |
| 1922 | Ralph Kiner |
| 1919 | Don Richmond |
| 1918 | Ed Albosta |
| 1917 | Bob Patrick |
| 1904 | Frank Bennett |
| 1902 | Jim Keesey |
| 1901 | George Smith |
| 1900 | Red Proctor |
| 1896 | Frank Okrie |
| 1895 | Clarence Huber |
| 1894 | Charlie Bold |
| 1890 | John Allen |
| 1889 | Chester Emerson |
| 1888 | Al Scheer |
| 1878 | John Barry |
| 1876 | Charlie Kuhns |
| 1876 | Patsy Dougherty |
| 1869 | Chick Pedroes |
| 1866 | Egyptian Healy |
| 1858 | Joe Mulvey |
| 1857 | Julius Willigrod |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Ray Semproch | 93 |
| 2022 | Pete Magrini | 80 |
| 2013 | Eddie Erautt | 89 |
| 2010 | Gene Fodge | 79 |
| 2008 | Ed Levy | 91 |
| 2008 | John Goetz | 71 |
| 2006 | Joe Niekro | 61 |
| 1988 | Ben Steiner | 67 |
| 1984 | Hank Helf | 71 |
| 1980 | Frank Loftus | 82 |
| 1979 | Charlie Wiedemeyer | 65 |
| 1978 | Rube Walberg | 82 |
| 1977 | Carlisle Littlejohn | 76 |
| 1977 | Red Lynn | 63 |
| 1973 | Bennie Tate | 71 |
| 1973 | Eddie Yount | 57 |
| 1969 | Charlie Jamieson | 76 |
| 1967 | Bill Bailey | 85 |
| 1959 | Elmer Koestner | 73 |
| 1959 | Scott Perry | 68 |
| 1955 | Clark Griffith | 85 |
| 1951 | John Brock | 55 |
| 1951 | Pryor McElveen | 69 |
| 1945 | Jack Hannifin | 62 |
| 1945 | Taylor Shafer | 79 |
| 1928 | Billy West | 75 |
| 1922 | Patrick McKenna | 67 |
| 1921 | Bill Kuehne | 63 |
| 1915 | Martin Mullen | 63 |
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 27.
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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