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On This Day in Baseball History: October 29
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI0 debuts26 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for October 29, newest first. Player names link to career pages where one exists, and each season links onward to that year’s awards and postseason archives.
Debuts0
Final games2
Transactions26
Born45
Died31
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No major-league debuts are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1875 | Count Gedney | |
| 1875 | Tom Miller |
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Texas Rangers released RHP Drew Anderson. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent OF Enzo Paulino to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent RHP Gerlin Rosario to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | Texas Rangers signed free agent RHP Miguel Jorge to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent RHP Kendall Graveman. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent OF Stevie Wilkerson to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent OF Stevie Wilkerson to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent 2B Stevie Wilkerson. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent P Kendall Graveman. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent P Kendall Graveman. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent P Kendall Graveman. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent RHP Kendall Graveman. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Adrian Hernandez to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent RHP Julio Goff to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent LHP Ronaldo Guzman to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Kansas City Royals signed free agent 1B Balbino Fuenmayor to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent RHP Bobby Korecky to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent C Jerson Dometilia to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent 1B Jose Abreu. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Oakland Athletics signed free agent RHP Philip Humber to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Houston Astros signed free agent RHP Jorge De Leon to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | New York Yankees signed free agent RHP Shailin Escalante to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent SS Eugene Helder to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Texas Rangers signed free agent OF Cristian Encarnacion to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Pittsburgh Pirates released LHP Hisanori Takahashi. 2012 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent SS Darinel Rodriguez to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 2002 | Maximo Acosta |
| 1994 | Shaun Anderson |
| 1993 | Raudy Read |
| 1992 | Colten Brewer |
| 1991 | Arismendy Alcantara |
| 1990 | Ender Inciarte |
| 1990 | Tyler White |
| 1988 | Johnny Hellweg |
| 1984 | Jose Mijares |
| 1983 | Dana Eveland |
| 1982 | Will Venable |
| 1975 | Gary Johnson |
| 1975 | Karim Garcia |
| 1975 | Scott Randall |
| 1974 | R. A. Dickey |
| 1972 | Richie Barker |
| 1970 | Kerwin Moore |
| 1967 | Greg Gohr |
| 1967 | Mandy Romero |
| 1967 | Narciso Elvira |
| 1966 | Pat Combs |
| 1959 | Jesse Barfield |
| 1957 | George Stablein |
| 1957 | Terry Felton |
| 1955 | Darrell Brown |
| 1954 | Kip Young |
| 1953 | Randy McGilberry |
| 1946 | Frank Baker |
| 1944 | Gary Neibauer |
| 1944 | Jim Bibby |
| 1939 | Pete Richert |
| 1924 | Hal Bamberger |
| 1923 | John Mackinson |
| 1909 | Ralph Winegarner |
| 1897 | Ty Pickup |
| 1890 | Joseph Finneran |
| 1889 | Andy Kyle |
| 1888 | Earl Yingling |
| 1883 | Del Mason |
| 1882 | Frank Browning |
| 1882 | Solly Hofman |
| 1863 | Mark Baldwin |
| 1859 | John Reccius |
| 1852 | Sam Kimber |
| 1850 | George Ewell |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Jim Hicks | 81 |
| 2017 | Al Richter | 90 |
| 1996 | Ewell Blackwell | 74 |
| 1995 | Al Niemiec | 84 |
| 1993 | Anse Moore | 76 |
| 1991 | Jimmie Coker | 55 |
| 1988 | Andy Cohen | 84 |
| 1982 | Pinky Woods | 62 |
| 1982 | Tom Sheehan | 88 |
| 1976 | Harry Malmberg | 51 |
| 1974 | Orie Kerlin | 83 |
| 1973 | George Beck | 83 |
| 1972 | Lloyd Dietz | 60 |
| 1968 | Bill Hohman | 64 |
| 1966 | Al Grabowski | 65 |
| 1965 | Bill McKechnie | 79 |
| 1965 | Frank Fuller | 71 |
| 1961 | Tom Cafego | 50 |
| 1959 | Dave Fultz | 84 |
| 1949 | John Malarkey | 77 |
| 1944 | Scott Hardesty | 74 |
| 1941 | Harvey Hendrick | 43 |
| 1941 | Wilbur Murdoch | 66 |
| 1938 | Babe Towne | 58 |
| 1938 | Tom Daly | 72 |
| 1930 | Gene Wright | 51 |
| 1924 | Pop Snyder | 70 |
| 1923 | Jack Nabors | 35 |
| 1923 | Jimmy Ryan | 60 |
| 1916 | Frank Hoffman | - |
| 1909 | John Lyston | 42 |
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 29.
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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