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On This Day in Baseball History: December 25
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI0 debuts9 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for December 25, 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
Transactions9
Born73
Died27
| 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 | Chicago Cubs signed free agent RHP Jeff Brigham to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Gerson Garabito to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent 2B Nick Ward to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent C Lians Beato to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent LF Brian Bogusevic to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent LF Quincy Latimore to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent 3B Heiker Meneses to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | New York Yankees signed free agent RHP Yoshinori Tateyama to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2012 | Chicago Cubs signed free agent RHP Jaye Chapman to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Bradley Blalock |
| 1995 | Alex Jackson |
| 1995 | Enyel De Los Santos |
| 1994 | Nabil Crismatt |
| 1994 | Zach Jackson |
| 1992 | Tanner Rainey |
| 1990 | Garrett Cooper |
| 1986 | Waldis Joaquin |
| 1982 | Ruben Gotay |
| 1981 | Willy Taveras |
| 1975 | Hideki Okajima |
| 1973 | Tarrik Brock |
| 1972 | Erik Hiljus |
| 1970 | Steve Montgomery |
| 1968 | Scott Bullett |
| 1962 | Bruce Walton |
| 1962 | Marty Pevey |
| 1961 | Rich Renteria |
| 1960 | Tom O'Malley |
| 1960 | Ty Gainey |
| 1958 | Gerry Davis |
| 1958 | Rickey Henderson |
| 1956 | Charlie Lea |
| 1956 | Wallace Johnson |
| 1954 | Jeff Little |
| 1953 | Rick Anderson |
| 1952 | Julio Gonzalez |
| 1951 | Luis Quintana |
| 1950 | Manny Trillo |
| 1946 | Gene Lamont |
| 1943 | Dennis Musgraves |
| 1939 | Chris Krug |
| 1938 | Jack Hamilton |
| 1934 | Charlie Beamon |
| 1928 | Frank Baldwin |
| 1928 | Mike Blyzka |
| 1927 | Nellie Fox |
| 1926 | Dick Manville |
| 1925 | Ned Garver |
| 1922 | Neal Watlington |
| 1912 | Charles George |
| 1912 | Quincy Trouppe |
| 1908 | Alta Cohen |
| 1908 | Ben Chapman |
| 1908 | Jo-Jo Moore |
| 1904 | Bill Akers |
| 1904 | Lloyd Brown |
| 1903 | Red Barnes |
| 1901 | Buster Chatham |
| 1899 | Gene Robertson |
| 1899 | Tom Gulley |
| 1898 | Earl Kunz |
| 1897 | Allen Elliott |
| 1895 | Frank Ellerbe |
| 1895 | Herb Hunter |
| 1892 | Karl Kolseth |
| 1892 | Walter Holke |
| 1889 | Marty Becker |
| 1887 | Bull Wagner |
| 1887 | Morrie Rath |
| 1884 | Ed Henderson |
| 1881 | Joe McCarthy |
| 1877 | Dick Braggins |
| 1876 | Jim Jones |
| 1874 | Barry McCormick |
| 1872 | Ted Lewis |
| 1871 | Mike Hickey |
| 1869 | Alex Jones |
| 1866 | George Haddock |
| 1865 | George Mappes |
| 1864 | Vince Dailey |
| 1856 | Pud Galvin |
| 1844 | Nat Jewett |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Brent Billingsley | 49 |
| 2019 | Andy Hassler | 68 |
| 2018 | John Briggs | 84 |
| 2016 | Johnny Rutherford | 91 |
| 2013 | Mike Hegan | 71 |
| 2010 | Karl Olson | 80 |
| 2009 | Bill Burich | 92 |
| 2007 | Jim Beauchamp | 68 |
| 2001 | Ramon Garcia | 77 |
| 1994 | Tony Robello | 81 |
| 1992 | Ed Donnelly | 60 |
| 1989 | Billy Martin | 61 |
| 1983 | Babe Young | 68 |
| 1976 | Bill Skiff | 81 |
| 1970 | Red Juelich | 54 |
| 1961 | Don Savage | 42 |
| 1961 | Frank Foutz | 84 |
| 1953 | Patsy Donovan | 88 |
| 1952 | Ed Coughlin | 91 |
| 1942 | Whitey Alpermann | 63 |
| 1941 | George Bell | 67 |
| 1930 | Fred Clement | 63 |
| 1925 | Harry Kirsch | 38 |
| 1922 | Wes Fisler | 79 |
| 1916 | Bill Moriarty | 33 |
| 1910 | John Deasley | - |
| 1894 | Tom Cahill | - |
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 December 25.
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.
See the sources page for every dataset behind Legends Deck.