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On This Day in Baseball History: November 3
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI0 debuts37 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for November 3, 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 games0
Transactions37
Born55
Died29
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No major-league debuts are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No final games are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Cincinnati Reds traded RF Ryan Vilade to Tampa Bay Rays for cash. 2025 transaction archive |  |  |
| 2025 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent RHP Jean Henriquez to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent RHP Darlin Mejia to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Oakland Athletics signed free agent RHP Vinny Nittoli to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | San Diego Padres signed free agent 2B Tyler Wade to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent CF Chase Pinder to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Kansas City Royals signed free agent RHP Neftali Taveras to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | New York Mets signed free agent RHP Luisner Lopez to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Oakland Athletics signed free agent 1B Kevin Cron to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | Cincinnati Reds traded C Tucker Barnhart, and to Detroit Tigers for 3B Nick Quintana. 2021 transaction archive | |  |
| 2021 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Trevor Gott. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Texas Rangers signed free agent RHP Biembenido Brito to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Houston Astros signed free agent RHP Carlos Montes to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Houston Astros signed free agent C Sandro Gaston to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | Houston Astros signed free agent 3B Wilton Lara to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent RHP Frank Moreno to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | Houston Astros signed free agent OF Roger Jorge to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Pittsburgh Pirates released RHP Dovydas Neverauskas. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP Trevor Rosenthal. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent RHP Bryan Castillo to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2017 | St. Louis Cardinals signed free agent RHP Sebastian Tabata to a minor league contract. 2017 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Chicago White Sox released RHP Daniel Webb. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Detroit Tigers traded LF Cameron Maybin to Los Angeles Angels for RHP Victor Alcantara. 2016 transaction archive | |  |
| 2015 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent LHP Bryan Morgado to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Colorado Rockies signed free agent RHP Jair Jurrjens to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Miami Marlins signed free agent LHP Bryan Morgado to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent RHP Gregorix Mateo to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Cleveland Indians traded RHP Esmil Rogers to Toronto Blue Jays for LF Mike Aviles and C Yan Gomes. 2012 transaction archive |  |  |
| 2012 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent LHP Oliver Perez. 2012 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Oakland Athletics signed free agent RHP Bartolo Colon. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent Michael Olmsted. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Kansas City Royals signed free agent RHP Ofreidy Gomez to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent Juan Rivera. 2011 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2011 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent C Henry Blanco. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent RHP Brian Bruney to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent C Hiomarvic Colmenarez to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent LHP Brandol Perez to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Roki Sasaki |
| 1998 | Randy Vásquez |
| 1997 | Logan Driscoll |
| 1996 | Reiss Knehr |
| 1990 | Madison Younginer |
| 1988 | Carlos Moncrief |
| 1987 | Kyle Seager |
| 1987 | Ryan Tepera |
| 1986 | Alex Wilson |
| 1984 | Brandon Dickson |
| 1984 | Jonathan Herrera |
| 1978 | Anastacio Martinez |
| 1972 | Armando Benitez |
| 1971 | Danny Young |
| 1969 | Ken Robinson |
| 1968 | Paul Quantrill |
| 1963 | Mike Christopher |
| 1962 | Sherman Corbett |
| 1956 | Bob Welch |
| 1955 | Mark Corey |
| 1953 | Bobby Thompson |
| 1953 | Larry Herndon |
| 1951 | Dwight Evans |
| 1948 | Rick Kreuger |
| 1946 | Garry Hill |
| 1946 | Tom Heintzelman |
| 1945 | Jim Johnson |
| 1945 | Ken Holtzman |
| 1936 | Earl Robinson |
| 1936 | Rick Herrscher |
| 1927 | Fred Richards |
| 1921 | Wally Flager |
| 1919 | Spider Jorgensen |
| 1918 | Bob Feller |
| 1917 | Eli Hodkey |
| 1917 | Len Gilmore |
| 1908 | Red Phillips |
| 1898 | Homer Summa |
| 1895 | Jim Walkup |
| 1895 | Kid Willson |
| 1890 | Larry Kopf |
| 1886 | Bob Fisher |
| 1886 | Clyde Southwick |
| 1884 | Pat Donahue |
| 1883 | Ed Lennox |
| 1881 | Jack Hickey |
| 1881 | Orson Baldwin |
| 1878 | Walter Clarkson |
| 1876 | Ike Rockenfield |
| 1876 | Phil Geier |
| 1871 | Fred Hayner |
| 1866 | Harry Staley |
| 1863 | John Hanna |
| 1860 | Ed Trumbull |
| 1856 | Jim McCormick |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Dennis Higgins | 84 |
| 2023 | Dick Drago | 78 |
| 2011 | Bob Forsch | 61 |
| 2011 | Matty Alou | 72 |
| 1992 | Boze Berger | 82 |
| 1992 | Chris Van Cuyk | 65 |
| 1990 | Jack Russell | 85 |
| 1986 | John Middleton | 86 |
| 1982 | Ray Fisher | 95 |
| 1981 | Al Jurisich | 60 |
| 1976 | Frank Brazill | 77 |
| 1974 | Doc Wood | 74 |
| 1972 | Phil Voyles | 72 |
| 1970 | Red Kellett | 61 |
| 1961 | Freddie Maguire | 62 |
| 1960 | Bobby Wallace | 86 |
| 1958 | Heinie Sand | 61 |
| 1958 | John Eubank | 86 |
| 1956 | John Jones | 55 |
| 1955 | John Merritt | 61 |
| 1953 | John Chapman | 54 |
| 1952 | Frank Smith | 73 |
| 1951 | Joe Hovlik | 67 |
| 1946 | Ben Taylor | 57 |
| 1945 | Elmer Smith | 77 |
| 1940 | Joe Burke | 72 |
| 1938 | Milt Scott | 77 |
| 1925 | Sam Frock | 42 |
| 1892 | Edgar Smith | 30 |
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 November 3.
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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