Mighty Casey Baseball

Click on any date below and view births, deaths, transactions, events, and other trivial tidbits for each day of the calendar year.  

A list of sources used to assemble each “Baseball History for {Date}…” page can be found below this list of dates.

Baseball History by Date:

January – 01February – 01March – 01
January – 02February – 02March – 02
January – 03February – 03March – 03
January – 04February – 04March – 04
January – 05February – 05March – 05
January – 06February – 06March – 06
January – 07February – 07March – 07
January – 08February – 08March – 08
January – 09February – 09March – 09
January – 10February – 10March – 10
January – 11February – 11March – 11
January – 12February – 12March – 12
January – 13February – 13March – 13
January – 14February – 14March – 14
January – 15February – 15March – 15
January – 16February – 16March – 16
January – 17February – 17March – 17
January – 18February – 18March – 18
January – 19February – 19March – 19
January – 20February – 20March – 20
January – 21February – 21March – 21
January – 22February – 22March – 22
January – 23February – 23March – 23
January – 24February – 24March – 24
January – 25February – 25March – 25
January – 26February – 26March – 26
January – 27February – 27March – 27
January – 28February – 28March – 28
January – 29February – 29March – 29
January – 30March – 30
January – 31March – 31
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April – 01May – 01June – 01
April – 02May – 02June – 02
April – 03May – 03June – 03
April – 04May – 04June – 04
April – 05May – 05June – 05
April – 06May – 06June – 06
April – 07May – 07June – 07
April – 08May – 08June – 08
April – 09May – 09June – 09
April – 10May – 10June – 10
April – 11May – 11June – 11
April – 12May – 12June – 12
April – 13May – 13June – 13
April – 14May – 14June – 14
April – 15May – 15June – 15
April – 16May – 16June – 16
April – 17May – 17June – 17
April – 18May – 18June – 18
April – 19May – 19June – 19
April – 20May – 20June – 20
April – 21May – 21June – 21
April – 22May – 22June – 22
April – 23May – 23June – 23
April – 24May – 24June – 24
April – 25May – 25June – 25
April – 26May – 26June – 26
April – 27May – 27June – 27
April – 28May – 28June – 28
April – 29May – 29June – 29
April – 30May – 30June – 30
May – 31
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July – 01August – 01September – 01
July – 02August – 02September – 02
July – 03August – 03September – 03
July – 04August – 04September – 04
July – 05August – 05September – 05
July – 06August – 06September – 06
July – 07August – 07September – 07
July – 08August – 08September – 08
July – 09August – 09September – 09
July – 10August – 10September – 10
July – 11August – 11September – 11
July – 12August – 12September – 12
July – 13August – 13September – 13
July – 14August – 14September – 14
July – 15August – 15September – 15
July – 16August – 16September – 16
July – 17August – 17September – 17
July – 18August – 18September – 18
July – 19August – 19September – 19
July – 20August – 20September – 20
July – 21August – 21September – 21
July – 22August – 22September – 22
July – 23August – 23September – 23
July – 24August – 24September – 24
July – 25August – 25September – 25
July – 26August – 26September – 26
July – 27August – 27September – 27
July – 28August – 28September – 28
July – 29August – 29September – 29
July – 30August – 30September – 30
July – 31August – 31
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October – 01November – 01December – 01
October – 02November – 02December – 02
October – 03November – 03December – 03
October – 04November – 04December – 04
October – 05November – 05December – 05
October – 06November – 06December – 06
October – 07November – 07December – 07
October – 08November – 08December – 08
October – 09November – 09December – 09
October – 10November – 10December – 10
October – 11November – 11December – 11
October – 12November – 12December – 12
October – 13November – 13December – 13
October – 14November – 14December – 14
October – 15November – 15December – 15
October – 16November – 16December – 16
October – 17November – 17December – 17
October – 18November – 18December – 18
October – 19November – 19December – 19
October – 20November – 20December – 20
October – 21November – 21December – 21
October – 22November – 22December – 22
October – 23November – 23December – 23
October – 24November – 24December – 24
October – 25November – 25December – 25
October – 26November – 26December – 26
October – 27November – 27December – 27
October – 28November – 28December – 28
October – 29November – 29December – 29
October – 30November – 30December – 30
October – 31December – 31

NOTES ABOUT SOURCES:

For lists of people who were born or died on any date, I wrote queries against the Lahman Database, which is built on top of data managed by Retrosheet, I believe.  I’m a huge fan of this relational database as it gets many projects started.  During the season, I may look at Baseball-Reference.com to see if anyone was missed – Lahman’s database comes out once a year – so at some points during a season I can’t live just by the database…  (I still love that DB – always will.)

Many of the quick summaries are mine – written off the top of my head – but may include data from two books in my collection and I usually say that in the summary:

Baseball Players of the 1950s (Rich Marazzi and Len Fiorito)

Major League Baseball Profiles (1871 to 1900)  (Edited by David Nemec – two volumes).

For specific biographies (either included on the date page or those players on the PLAYERS page who have full length essays), I have included specific resources used to write those essays.  Every once in a while, you may see a picture or quote for a birthday player – and when you do those should be cited with the source.

For events and transactions data, I use lists found on Baseball-Reference.com, NationalPastime.com or Retrosheet.org.  Other details are usually dragged off of a newspaper whenever possible, and if I use the newspaper it is cited specifically.  Essentially “news stuff” comes from NationalPastime.com, transactions come from Baseball-Reference.com or Retrosheet.org, and game details likely come from Retrosheet.org.  If I use more than that, I’ll let you know on that page where it is written.

When I first started writing certain essays and biographies, I didn’t necessarily cite sources.  That’s my fault.  However, there are only two or three of these (Dooley Womack might have been the first of these essays and I know I didn’t source it, though most of the articles came out of The Sporting News).  The rest are completely cited unless I admit that I am summarizing something and plan to cite it when I write a fuller summary or detailed essay.

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