On September 28 in Baseball History...

    1897 - Although he gives up 14 runs on 17 hits, Dave Wright of the Chicago Colts (Cubs) wins his first and only major league game. The 21-year old Dennison, Ohio native is the beneficiary of Chicago’s 11-run fifth inning when the club beats the Pirates, 15-14.

    1902 - On the last day of the season, the Browns and the White Sox decide to use an assortment of seven infielders and outfielders on the mound instead of relying on their pitching staffs. Chicago's flychaser Sam Mertes earns the victory and the Browns' left fielder Jesse Burkett takes the loss in the Pale Hose's 10-4 victory at Sportsman's Park, making it the last time the winning and losing pitchers were both position players in same game until 2012 when Chris Davis of the Orioles and Darnell McDonald of the Red Sox also accomplished the feat in Baltimore's 17-inning victory at Fenway Park.

    1905 - In a game that helps decide the pennant, the A's beat the White Sox 3-2 as Topsy Hartsel scores from second base with the winning run in the seventh inning. An RBI single by Harry Davis to short left hits Hartsel's mitt, which the left fielder had left in the outfield when he came off the field.

    1919 - In the first game of a twin bill on the last day of the season, the Giants need only 51 minutes to defeat the Phillies, 6-1. The Polo Grounds contest is the shortest nine-inning game ever played in the major leagues.

    1920 - A grand jury indicted eight members of the Chicago White Sox on charges of fixing the 1919 World Series in the "Black Sox Scandal."

    1923 - At Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers beat the Red Sox, 24-4. En route to their one-sided victory, New York bangs out thirty hits in the game to set an American League record.

    1924 - Rogers Hornsby finishes the season with a .424 batting average to lead the National League. The Cardinal second baseman easily outdistances Zack Wheat, who finishes second in the race batting .375 for the Dodgers.

    1930 - As a Yankee, Babe Ruth returns to the mound after a nine-year absence at Fenway Park and pitches a complete game beating the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 9-3. The last time the 'Bambino' took the mound, he defeated the A's at the end of the 1921 season. 

    1930 - The Cubs bring down the season's curtain as Hack Wilson has his 189th and 190th RBI in a 12-11 victory over the Reds. Wilson's Major League RBI record will remain untouched. With Riggs Stephenson and Kiki Cuyler each driving in 100 runs, the Cubs have the first all-100 RBI outfield in the 20th century. The Boston outfield in 1894 also had the same credentials.

    1932 - In the opening game of the World Series, Lou Gehrig's home run leads the Yankees to a 12-6 win over the Cubs.

    1935 - With nothing on the line, the pennant winning Cubs finally lose to the Cardinals and snap their 21-game win streak. The skein is the longest in the majors since the Giants of 1916 when New York won 26 games and tied one. However, Chicago's win streak is the longest without a tie since 1880.

    1938 - Gabby Hartnett hit his famous "Homer in the Gloamin" as darkness descended at Wrigley Field in the ninth inning to give the Chicago Cubs a 6-5 victory, their ninth straight. It was a key victory en route to the Cubs' National League pennant.

    1941 - Batting .399955, Ted Williams elects to play in a doubleheader against the A's on the final day of the season rather than to back into the coveted .400 average because the number is rounded up. The 'Splendor Splinter' comes through by going 6-for-8 in the twin bill to finish the season with a .4057 mark (.406).

    1947 - On the season's last day, the St. Louis Browns, desperate for a ticket seller, bring announcer Dizzy Dean in to pitch against the White Sox. Diz gives up only three hits in four innings and laces a clean single in his only at bat, but a pulled leg muscle forces his retirement. The White Sox score all their runs in the ninth to win 5-2. Even with Diz, the game draws less than 16,000, and the Browns finish the year with only 320,000 attendance, less than half that of 1946.

    1947 - On the final day of the season in front of 23,085 fans, the Yankees stage the first Old-Timers’ Day in major league history. The team's signature event, the brain child of general manager Larry MacPhail and public relations director Red Paterson, is held to honor an ailing Babe Ruth.

    1948 - A crowd of 60,405 attends Joe Early Night at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. The 26-year old night watchman wrote Bill Veeck asking why an average fan never gets a 'Day', and the Indians' owner responded by giving the World War II veteran a spectacular day of his own.

    1951 - Allie Reynolds pitched his second no-hitter of the season as the New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox, 8-0, in the opener of a doubleheader. The Yankees clinched the American League pennant with an 11-3 victory in the second game.

    1952 - On the last day of the season at Ebbets Field, the Braves' 77 years of representing Boston is extended by three innings when Eddie Mathews' ninth-inning, two-out double ties the game. The contest is called due to darkness and ends in the 12th inning in a 5-5 tie with the Dodgers.

    1953 - Reversing their decision from last season, the American League owners unanimously agree on moving the Browns from St. Louis to Baltimore where the franchise will become known as the Orioles. The 54-100 team finishes last in attendance, averaging only 3,860 fans a game at Sportsman's Park, including yesterday's crowd of 3,174 in the franchise finale in St. Louis.

    1955 - In the bottom of the second inning, Elston Howard, in his first World Series at-bat, knots the score at two to two when he homers off Dodgers' right-hander Don Newcombe. The round-tripper to deep left field at Yankee Stadium marks the first time a black batter has hit a home run off a black pitcher in the history of the Fall Classic.

    1958 - Going 7-for-11 to end the season, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams becomes the first 40-year old to lead the league in hitting and wins his sixth and final batting title. The 'Splendid Splinter's' .328 batting average beats out his teammate Pete Runnels, who goes 0-for-4 today and ends up the campaign with a .322 mark.

    1958 - On the last day of the season, Dave Philley establishes a big-league record by getting his eighth consecutive pinch hit. The seventh inning run-producing double helps the Phillies beat the Pirates at Forbes Field, 6–4.

    1958 - On the last day of the season at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, Richie Ashburn goes 3-for-4, including a tenth inning single, to capture his second batting crown. The Phillies center fielder, who also led the league in 1955, ends the season with a batting average of .350, three points higher than Giants slugger Willie Mays.

    1959 - In the first game of a best-of-three playoff, the Dodgers beat the Braves 3-2 in a cold Milwaukee drizzle. Rookie Larry Sherry pitches 7 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. In a losing cause, Eddie Mathews hits his 46th home run to win the title. Ernie Banks finishes with 45.

    1960 - In his final major-league plate appearance, against Baltimore's Jack Fisher, Ted Williams picks out a 1-1 pitch and drives it 450 feet into the right-center field seats behind the Boston bullpen. It is Williams' 521st and last home run, putting him third on the all-time list. The blast gives the seventh-place Red Sox a 5-4 victory. Williams stays in the dugout, ignoring the crowd's cheers, but when he trots out to left field in the ninth, he is replaced immediately by Carroll Hardy. He retires as a standing crowd roars.


    1962 - In front of only 595 fans at Wrigley Field, the Cubs (58-101) beat the Mets (39-118) in the first meeting between two 100-loss teams before the series begins in major league history. The New York expansion team will split the remaining two games in Chicago to finish the season 40-120, establishing the record for the most losses in baseball's modern-era.

    1965 - In his 2,000th career game, Willie Mays hits his 51st home run of the year, but the Giants lose to St. Louis 8-6.

    1965 - Dave Morehead takes the loss when the Angels beat the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 4-3. The defeat is the the right-hander's tenth consecutive defeat at the hands of the Halos, establishing a new American League record.

    1966 - At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Larry Jaster throws a four-hitter blanking Don Sutton and the Dodgers, 2-0. It’s the southpaw’s fifth shutout against LA this season equaling a post-1900 major league mark held by Senators Tom Hughes (against the Indians in 1905) and Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Phillies (against the Reds in 1916).

    1968 - Blanked by the combined efforts of Angel hurlers Marty Pattin and Jim McGlothlin, the White Sox lose their ninth 1-0 decision of the season. The defeat ties an American League record, matching the mark established by the 1914 Yankees.

    1968 - Although the future Hall of Famer gives up 16 hits, Giants' right-hander Gaylord Perry goes the distance earning a 10-4 victory over the Reds at Crosley Field. Cincinnati's 14 singles and two doubles cannot overcome their two errors and a three-run poke by Willie McCovey.

    1971 - Baltimore achieves 108 wins for the season with a doubleheader sweep at Boston, 10-2, and 5-4. The Orioles become only the third team to win 100 games in three straight seasons.

    1974 - Nolan Ryan pitched his third of seven career no-hitters, striking out 15 as the California Angels beat the Minnesota Twins, 4-0, at Anaheim Stadium.

    1975 - Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers of the Oakland A's combined to no-hit the California Angels, 5-0, on the final day of the season.

    1976 - At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Giants hurler John Montefusco no-hits the Braves, 9-0. The 'Count' is almost perfect giving up just a leadoff walk to Jerry Royster in the fourth inning.

    1979 - In a twin bill at Busch Stadium, Cardinal infielder Garry Templeton collects three hits against the Mets to become the first player to get 100 hits from each side of the plate. The St. Louis shortstop bats just right-handed during the last nine games to establish the unprecedented switch-hitting mark.

    1982 - Although the Twins stake Terry Felton to a 3-0 lead in the night cap of a twin bill, the Blue Jays tie the score knocking out the hard-luck pitcher from his last major league game. The no-decision leaves the 24-year old right hander with a lifetime mark of 0-16, a major league record for most career losses without recording a victory.

    1982 - At Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, right hander Jim Clancy is perfect until he faces Randy Bush leading off the ninth inning. The Twins designated hitter ruins the bid for perfection with a broken-bat single to right field, and the Blue Jays starter has to settle for a one-hitter beating Minnesota, 3-0.

    1983 - At Wrigley Field, the Phillies clinch the National League East championship with a 13-6 victory over Chicago. The clincher is the team's 7000th win in franchise history.

    1985 - Cincinnati's Tom Browning becomes the first rookie since Bob Grim in 1954 to win 20 games, raising his record to 20-9 with a 5-2 win over Houston. He is the first Reds pitcher to win 20 since Jim Merritt in 1970.

    1987 - Kevin Seitzer becomes the first rookie since Tony Oliva and Dick Allen in 1964 to collect 200 hits.

    1988 - In his last start of the regular season, Orel Hershiser pitches ten shutout innings to extend his consecutive-scoreless-inning streak to 59, breaking Dodger Don Drysdale's Major League record by one. San Diego's Andy Hawkins also pitches ten shutout innings and the Padres eventually win 2-1 on Mark Parent's home run in the bottom of the 16th.

    1988 - In Seoul, South Korea, Jim Abbott, born without a right hand, goes the distance en route in a 5-3 victory over Japan to win the Olympic Gold medal for the United States. After the game, the Japanese players, in a display of great respect, line up to congratulate the former University of Michigan pitcher who just had beaten them.

    1990 - The scoreboard at Old Comiskey Park 'explodes' for the last time when Frank Thomas goes deep off Randy Johnson in the seventh inning of a 13-4 loss to Seattle. The Monster, which has shot off fireworks whenever a White Sox player hit a home run since 1960, was an innovation of team owner Bill Veeck, who was inspired by the design of a pinball machine.

    1995 - A fan takes exception when a Cub reliever gives up two-run, pinch-hit home run to James Mouton giving the Astros a eighth inning 9-7 lead. As the Houston pinch hitter rounds the bases, the 27-year old spectator runs out of the stands and heads toward the mound where he is immediately pinned by Randy Myers, who in addition to his pitching prowess, is well trained in the martial arts.

    1995 - Greg Harris becomes the first post-1900 major leaguer to pitch ambidextrously. The Expos reliever, in his ninth inning appearance blanks the Reds facing four batters, two as a right-hander, his natural side, and the other two as a southpaw.

    1996 - Rockies' Ellis Burks becomes the fourth player to hit 40+ home runs and swipe 30 bases in a single season.

    1996 - The Devil Rays become the second team to sign a working agreement with a Japanese professional team. Tampa Bay signs a two-year contract with the Seibu Lions, which includes a four-year option extending the deal through 2002.

    1997 - With his 40th home run, catcher Mike Piazza sets a single season Los Angeles Dodger record. Duke Snider holds the franchise record slugging 43 round-trippers for Brooklyn in 1956.

    1997 - Toronto's Roger Clemens goes 8.1 innings against his former team, but doesn't get a decision when the Blue Jays score two runs in the bottom of the ninth and beat Boston in a 3-2 come-from-behind victory. The right-hander will finish the season with a 21-7 record, the best winning percentage for a starting pitcher on a team that will finish last.

    1997 - Tony Gwynn equals Honus Wagner's record by winning his eighth National League batting title when he finishes the season with a .372 batting average. The Padres outfielder becomes the first player to win four consecutive NL batting crowns since Rogers Hornsby accomplished the feat with the Cardnals, winning six straight titles between 1920 and 1925.

    1998 - In the first National League playoff since 1980, the Cubs beat the Giants, 5-3, in a one-game showdown to take the National League's wild card berth.

    2000 - The Brewers play the last game at Milwaukee County Stadium bowing to the Reds, 8-1 as Warren Spahn throws the ceremonial first pitch to Del Crandall, his battery mate on Opening Day 48 years ago in 1953 when Spahn and the Braves beat the Cardinals in 10 innings, 3-2.

    2000 - Troy Glaus, who will lead the American League with 45 home runs, hits his 44th playing the hot corner breaking the league record for homers by a third baseman set in 1953 by Al Rosen.

    2000 - Equalling the 1996 Orioles, the Blue Jays become only the second team in major league history to have seven players to hit twenty or more homers during the same season when DH Darrin Fletcher goes deep in the fifth inning for the team's only tally in a 23-1 rout by the Orioles at Camden Yards. The other Toronto players to reach the milestone include Carlos Delgado, Tony Batista, Shannon Stewart, Jose Cruz, Raul Mondesi, and Brad Fullmer.

    2001 - In the first home game at Wrigley since the terrorist attacks on America, Sammy Sosa, after hitting his 59th home run of the season, pulls out a small American flag and waves it as he circles the bases. After scoring and making a curtain call from the dugout, the Cub slugger continues to wave Old Glory.

    2001 - Ranger infielder Alex Rodriguez becomes the 20th player and first shortstop in major league history to hit 50 home runs season. The milestone blast is given up by Angel hurler Ismael Valdes in the first inning in at Edison Field in an 11-2 Texas win.

    2001 - Angels infielder David Eckstein breaks Frank Robinson's rookie record for getting hit by a pitch. The Halos' shortstop is struck by Rangers hurler Aaron Mayette's fifth inning pitch making it the 21st time he has been plunked this season.

    2001 - On a night he hits his 68th round tripper of the season in quest of Mark McGwire's single season home run record, Barry Bonds is walked for the 163rd time breaking 'Big Mac's' 1998 National League record for bases on balls. The major league record is 170 walks held by Babe Ruth.

    2003 - Ron Santo, the team's radio color commentator joins Hall of Famers Ernie Banks and Billy Williams becoming third player to have his number retired by the Cubs. The nine-time All Star third baseman, who spent 14 of his 15-year career with Chicago (1960-73), will have his uniform #10 below Ernie Banks' on the left-field foul pole.

    2003 - At Turner Field in Atlanta, Jose Reyes becomes the second Mets player to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in one game. Lee Mazzilli was the first when he went yard twice against the Dodgers in LA on September 3, 1978.

    2003 - Following an emotional closing ceremony, the Braves beat the Phillies 5-2 in the final game at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. The two hour festivities at the intersection of Broad Street and Pattison Avenue includes the introduction of the All-Vet team and a eulogy given Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Kalas, who receives a standing ovation from the 58,554 enthusiastic fans in attendance.


    2005 - Alex Rodriguez breaks Joe DiMaggio's 1937 single-season club record for home runs by a right-handed batter. The third baseman’s 47th homer proves to be the difference as the Yankees edge the Orioles, 2-1.

    2005 - With the lowest winning percentage ever compiled by a division champion during a non-strike year, the Padres (79-79) win their fourth division flag in the 37-year history of the franchise. San Diego, which needs to win three of their last four games just to finish above .500, accomplishes the feat the surpassing the Mets, who previously possessed the dubious record by going 82-79 (.509) to win the NL East in 1973.

    2006 - For the third consecutive season, Kansas City will lose 100 or more games. The team's 2-1 defeat to the Twins in the Metrodome makes the Royals the 11th franchise in big league history to accomplish this dubious feat.

    2006 - At Coors field in Colorado, James Loney collects four hits including two homers and drives in nine runs in a 19-11 victory over the Rockies. The rookie first baseman, who had one homer and eight runs batted in in 93 previous at-bats with the team, ties the franchise RBI mark set by Gil Hodges in his 1950 four-homer game and breaks the Los Angeles club mark held by Ron Cey.

    2008 - On the last day of the season, 39-year-old Yankee right-hander Mike Mussina (20-9) becomes the oldest pitcher to win 20 games in a season for the first time. The 18-year career veteran tosses six shutout innings against the Red Sox in New York's 6-2 Fenway Pak victory.

    2008 - With a 4-2 loss to the Marlins, the Mets play their final game at Shea Stadium disappointing a sell-out crowd by failing to qualify for the postseason on the last day of the season for the second consecutive year. After the contest, former Mets, including Hall of Famers Willie Mays, Yogi Berra and Tom Seaver, as well as Darryl Strawberry, Dwight 'Doc' Gooden and Mike Piazza, but not any of the club's current players, take part in a ceremony to celebrate the history of the 45-year old ballpark in front of the subdued spectators gathered to 'Shea Goodbye' .

    2008 - Pitching on a day's short rest, CC Sabathia tosses a complete game, defeating the Cubs, 3-1. The victory, along with the Mets' 4-2 loss to Florida an hour later, makes the Brewers the NL Wild Card and puts Milwaukee in the postseason for the first time since 1982.

    2008 - The Astros set a new National League mark for the fewest errors committed in one season. The 67 Houston miscues are one less than the record shared by the 1999 Mets and 2007 Rockies.

    2008 - For the first time in team history, the Red Sox draw over three-million patrons at home. A crowd of 37,091 fans attending the first game of a day-night doubleheader on the last day of the season brings the season's total to 3,010,801, marking the ninth straight year the attendance at Fenway Park has broken the franchise record.

    2009 - The Angels clinch their fifth AL West title in the last six years with their 11-0 win over Texas. Although the team has been very successful reaching the postseason, Los Angeles has won just one playoff series since winning Game 7 of the 2002 World Series for their only championship.

    2009 - The Angels acquire left-hander Scott Kazmir (8-7, 5.92) from the Rays in exchange for two prospects, left-hander Alex Torres and infielder Matt Sweeney, as well as a highly touted minor league player to be named later. The Rays dealt the 25-year-old talented southpaw, who is in the first year of a three-year, $28.5 million contract, due to restrictions in the organization's payroll.

    2010 - David Wright sets the all-time Mets record for strikeouts in a season with 157. The third baseman passes the infamous mark shared by Dave Kingman (1982) and Tommie Agee (1970).

    2011 - With their season-finale extra-inning victory over Atlanta, the Phillies set a team record with their 102nd win of the campaign. The 4-3 victory also moves skipper Charlie Manuel (646-488) past Gene Mauch for the most wins by a manager in the history of the franchise.

    2011 - The Braves become the first team in major league history to blow a lead of at least eight games in September when the team is eliminated from the playoffs on the last day of the season, losing to Philadelphia in 13 innings, 4-3. On August 26, Atlanta was 10½ games ahead of St. Louis, the eventual Wild Card team.

    2011 - On the final day of the season, the Brewers beat the Pirates 7-3, for their 96th victory of the season to break the franchise record for victories established in 1979 and tied in 1982. The National League Central Division champs finish the season 96-66, the second best record in the circuit trailing only Philadelphia.

    2011 - Trailing 7-0 going into the eighth, the Rays complete their storybook finish on the final day of the season with a ninth-inning, two-out, two-strike, game-tying pinch hit solo home run hit by Dan Johnson, and Evan Longoria's walk-off round-tripper in the 12th. The victory, along with the Red Sox 4-3 loss to Baltimore minutes before, gives Tampa Bay the AL wild-card berth, after being down by nine games at the beginning of the month.

    2011 - Ozzie Guillen, who signed a four-year, $10 million deal with Florida, is introduced before the season's finale as the club's new manager, replacing 80-year old interim Jack McKeon. The outspoken former White Sox skipper is expected, in addition to bringing a better product on the field, to help spark enthusiasm for the team as they start a new era playing in a new ballpark as the Miami Marlins.

    2011 - The Marlins attract 34,615 fans to their finale at Dolphin Stadium, now known as Sun Life Stadium, but will still post the poorest attendance in the National League for the sixth consecutive year. The last place club, which has played in its current venue during the first 19 years of the franchise's existence, will play next season's home games in a new ballpark with a retractable roof located on approximately 17 acres of the historic 42-acre Orange Bowl site in the Little Havana section of Miami.

    2011 - With a Tampa Bay loss all but assured, the Red Sox, appearing to need just a win to advance to the ALDS or to Tampa Bay for a one-game playoff if they lose, become optimistic about their chances for a playoff spot with their 3-2 lead over Baltimore, and the Rays trailing New York, 7-0. Boston will drop a 4-3 walk-off decision when the Birds score two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, and moments later will see their season come to a crushing end when Evan Longoria hits a solo homer in the bottom of the 12th inning giving the Rays an unbelievable comeback victory and the AL Wild card.

    2011 - Eric O'Flaherty, who induces a double play from the only batter he faces in the Braves' 4-3 loss to Philadelphia, finishes the season with a microscopic 0.98 ERA. The 26 year-old southpaw's earned run average is the lowest ever posted by a pitcher with 75 or more appearances.

    2012 - Homer Bailey throws the 16th no-hitter in Cincinnati Reds history as the Reds beat the Pirates 1-0 at PNC Park.


    2014 - Jordan Zimmermann throws a no-hitter in the Nationals regular season finale. Thanks to a dramatic, diving grab by little-used rookie Steven Souza Jr., who came on as a defensive replacement in the ninth inning, Zimmermann completed his gem, a 1-0 victory for the NL East champion Nationals over the Miami Marlins. It's Zimmermann's first career no-hitter and also the first thrown by a National pitcher in their history.


    2015 - The Anaheim Angels signed Mat Latos as a free agent.




    Baseball Birthdays on September 28...

    1858 - Kellogg, Nate
    1859 - Knight, Joe
    1863 - Nelson, Bill
    1865 - Bierbauer, Lou
    1867 - Stephens, Ben
    1876 - Long, Red
    1882 - Sullivan, Denny
    1883 - Young, Harley
    1885 - Good, Wilbur
    1889 - Compton, Pete
    1889 - Fournier, Jack
    1889 - Jordan, Rip
    1891 - Booe, Everett
    1893 - Rheam, Cy
    1893 - Massey, Mike
    1895 - Witt, Whitey
    1895 - Bubser, Hal
    1902 - Chagnon, Leon
    1903 - Brillheart, Jim
    1903 - Grampp, Hank
    1905 - Easterling, Paul
    1906 - Barrett, Dick
    1908 - Sumner, Carl
    1914 - Midkiff, Dick
    1916 - Evans, Al
    1917 - Lee, Roy
    1917 - Moulder, Glen
    1917 - Ulisney, Mike
    1925 - Gonzales, Vince
    1925 - Jennings, Bill
    1926 - Van Brabant, Ozzie
    1928 - Gernert, Dick
    1935 - Dustal, Bob
    1942 - Jackson, Grant
    1945 - Ratliff, Gene
    1949 - Guerrero, Mario
    1951 - Rajsich, Dave
    1955 - Bogener, Terry
    1958 - Filson, Pete
    1958 - Reynolds, Ronn
    1959 - Worrell, Todd
    1961 - Vosberg, Ed
    1961 - Ward, Kevin
    1962 - Woodward, Rob
    1962 - Frohwirth, Todd
    1963 - Kerfeld, Charlie
    1966 - Hernandez, Cesar
    1970 - DeJean, Mike
    1970 - Banks, Brian
    1971 - Brewington, Jamie
    1978 - Nation, Joey
    1979 - Young, Jason
    1980 - Demaria, Chris
    1980 - Rosario, Francisco
    1982 - Gimenez, Hector
    1982 - Owings, Micah
    1983 - Buente, Jay
    1984 - Weber, Thad
    1984 - Zimmerman, Ryan
    1986 - Stewart, Zach
    1987 - Iglesias, Jose
    1987 - Robinson, Derrick
    1987 - Sands, Jerry
    1988 - Rupp, Cameron
    1988 - Brown, Gary
    1990 - Heathcott, Slade
    1991 - Rosario, Eddie
    1992 - Gonzalez, Severino
    1994 - Margot, Manuel



    Baseball Deaths on September 28...

    1918 - Frill, John
    1920 - Reardon, Phil
    1938 - Rollinson, Bill
    1947 - Kelleher, Duke
    1947 - C0ckman, Jim
    1950 - Crompton, Ned
    1952 - Wrigley, Zeke
    1959 - Brouthers, Art
    1959 - Corriden, Red
    1960 - Martin, Joe
    1960 - Mahoney, Danny
    1960 - Orndorff, Jess
    1967 - Powell, Bill
    1969 - McMillan, Norm
    1974 - Hogan, Willie
    1975 - Solters, Moose
    1976 - Blakely, Linc
    1982 - White, Ed
    1994 - Scheetz, Owen
    1997 - Grob, Connie
    1997 - Konikowski, Alex
    2001 - Maguire, Jack
    2009 - Thompson, Don
    2015 - Diaz, Carlos