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On This Day in Baseball History: October 30
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI1 debuts37 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for October 30, 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 games5
Transactions37
Born68
Died37
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | Nate Berkenstock |
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1874 | Jack Farrell | |
| 1874 | John Donnelly | |
| 1871 | Ed Duffy | |
| 1871 | Nate Berkenstock | |
| 1871 | Tom Foley |
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent C Tomás Nido to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent C Ian Francis to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent RHP Brad Rudis to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RHP Ernesto Meza to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent RHP Sadrac Franco to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - | |
| 2024 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent RHP Cody Stashak to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent RHP Victor Trejo to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent LHP Yowander Mercedes to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Dariel Morillo to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Cleveland Guardians signed free agent RHP Luilli Cabrera to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RF Abraham Almonte. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Arizona Diamondbacks released 1B Kevin Cron. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2019 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent RHP Abel Brito to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent RHP Pedro Almanzar to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent LHP Ignacio Briceno to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent OF Ty Moore to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | St. Louis Cardinals signed free agent RHP Adam Wainwright. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent RHP Winder Garcia to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Oakland Athletics signed free agent C Matheus Lelis to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent LHP Alcindo Pontes to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent RHP Edgar Castro to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent RHP Evan Marshall to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent 1B Chris Iriart to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent OF Patrick Kivlehan to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2017 | New York Mets released OF Norichika Aoki. 2017 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2017 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Kevin Quackenbush to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2017 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent LHP Adam Loewen to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent SS Rodolfo Castro to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent RHP Joel Cesar to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent RHP Oliver Garcia to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent LHP Angel Martinez to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2014 | Kansas City Royals traded RHP Liam Hendriks to Toronto Blue Jays for C Santiago Nessy. 2014 transaction archive |  | |
| 2013 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent 3B Andy LaRoche to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent OF Rafael Santana to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent OF Jose Sandoval to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent RHP Miguel De La Cruz to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RHP Raymond Sanchez to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Wenceel Pérez |
| 1995 | Yuki Matsui |
| 1992 | Osmer Morales |
| 1990 | Joe Panik |
| 1990 | Patrick Schuster |
| 1987 | Ryan Kelly |
| 1986 | Desmond Jennings |
| 1984 | Shane Robinson |
| 1982 | Anderson Hernandez |
| 1982 | Jonathan Albaladejo |
| 1982 | Manny Parra |
| 1981 | Ian Snell |
| 1980 | Laynce Nix |
| 1980 | Mike Jacobs |
| 1979 | Jason Bartlett |
| 1978 | Luis Matos |
| 1976 | Dave Coggin |
| 1975 | Andy Dominique |
| 1975 | Marco Scutaro |
| 1968 | Erik Plantenberg |
| 1968 | Greg McCarthy |
| 1966 | Mark Ettles |
| 1962 | Danny Tartabull |
| 1962 | Mark Portugal |
| 1961 | Joe Johnson |
| 1961 | Scott Garrelts |
| 1960 | Dave Valle |
| 1960 | Gerald Perry |
| 1960 | Jose Escobar |
| 1960 | Lee Tunnell |
| 1959 | Dave Leeper |
| 1957 | Houston Jimenez |
| 1952 | Tom Brennan |
| 1951 | Tom Poquette |
| 1948 | Mickey Rivers |
| 1945 | Roe Skidmore |
| 1941 | Jim Ray Hart |
| 1935 | Jim Perry |
| 1930 | Don Nicholas |
| 1927 | Joe Adcock |
| 1921 | Chet Kehn |
| 1921 | Ted Abernathy |
| 1918 | Tony Ordenana |
| 1917 | Bobby Bragan |
| 1915 | Red Borom |
| 1914 | Aldon Wilkie |
| 1913 | John Burrows |
| 1906 | Roy Joiner |
| 1903 | Mickey Heath |
| 1901 | Al Kellett |
| 1898 | Bill Terry |
| 1898 | Jesse Fowler |
| 1897 | Kettle Wirts |
| 1896 | Clyde Manion |
| 1895 | Thomas Healy |
| 1894 | Harley Dillinger |
| 1891 | Charlie Deal |
| 1886 | Marty McHale |
| 1886 | Rudy Sommers |
| 1880 | Fred Curtis |
| 1874 | Sammy Curran |
| 1873 | Ham Iburg |
| 1871 | Buck Freeman |
| 1867 | Ed Delahanty |
| 1866 | Pete Conway |
| 1865 | Tom Nagle |
| 1859 | Frederick Fass |
| 1857 | Pete Fries |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Steve Hargan | 83 |
| 2025 | Yoervis Medina | 37 |
| 2023 | Frank Howard | 87 |
| 2021 | Jerry Remy | 68 |
| 2020 | Rick Baldwin | 67 |
| 2019 | Ron Fairly | 81 |
| 2018 | Bill Fischer | 88 |
| 2015 | Norm Siebern | 82 |
| 2013 | Bill Currie | 86 |
| 2011 | Mickey Scott | 64 |
| 2009 | Howie Schultz | 87 |
| 2005 | Al Lopez | 97 |
| 2005 | Earl Allen | 91 |
| 2001 | Johnny Lucadello | 82 |
| 1998 | George Schmees | 74 |
| 1997 | Barney Martin | 74 |
| 1996 | Bob Thorpe | 69 |
| 1994 | Frank Coggins | 50 |
| 1988 | Bernie Walter | 80 |
| 1978 | Reese Diggs | 63 |
| 1974 | Jimmy Shevlin | 65 |
| 1971 | Charlie Harding | 80 |
| 1970 | Jimmy Welsh | 68 |
| 1966 | Alex Pearson | 89 |
| 1966 | Dick Barrett | 60 |
| 1965 | Lee Fohl | 88 |
| 1957 | Fred Beebe | 77 |
| 1956 | Dick Midkiff | 42 |
| 1951 | Walt Woods | 76 |
| 1943 | Frank Whitney | 87 |
| 1936 | Jack Morrissey | 60 |
| 1935 | Steve Brodie | 67 |
| 1931 | Jim Tyng | 75 |
| 1931 | Joe Hornung | 74 |
| 1925 | Frank Thompson | 71 |
| 1919 | Bill Lattimore | 35 |
| 1886 | Barney Graham | 23 |
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 30.
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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