JUST FOR FUN: Which MLB Player was born closest to your birthday?

[HRBAKER]

Jim Aducci was born the same day I was.

[steve B]

How do you do that search?

[edtiques]

Mike Mason was born on 11/21/1958. My DOB is 11/20/1958.

[edtiques]

Originally Posted by steve B

How do you do that search?

Steve,just ask "What baseball player was born on your birthday"on Google. It will bring up a link to Baseball Almanac which lists all the players born in your birth year.

[Jim65]

I was born April 15, 1965, closest MLB players are Craig Worthington April 17, 1965 and Jeff DeWillis April 13, 1965.

Former NHL star Kevin Stevens was born the same day as me.

[commishbob]

Orioles(yeah!) pitcher Jeff Schneider and Twins/Padres utility infielder Chuck Baker were born the day after I was.

Astros/Giants 2nd baseman Rob Andrews, with whom I share a name, was born six days after me.



Edited to add...a bit of research on BR's sister sites told me that not a single player in MLB, NBA, NFL, or NFL history was born on the same day as I was. But Shoelass Joe died exactly a year before I was born.

[quinnsryche]

Jack Voigt 5/17/66 - Me 5/16/66
Hoped for a better name!
I do have the same birthdate as Billy Martin only 38 years later.

[NiceDocter]

Harry Stovey Branch Rickey Hof Gabby hartnett hof..... not bad.... but also Bonehead Fred Merkle. One guess who I’m most like.......

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by steve B

How do you do that search?

Steve- someone already gave you one option, but that will only tell you who was born on the same Date of any year.

On BaseballResearch.Com, click on the link 'Happy Birthday/Born on this Day' - then plug your date in the search and, if nobody was born that day (the results show the year each player was born), search the day before and the day after and so on.


Kind of fun, I thought.