Birthday thread

[timn1]

The thread about Leon's September 5 birthday (Happy Birthday buddy!) which is also Nap Lajoie's birthday got me thinking -

Who is the greatest player born on your birthday?

It may take some digging, but let's try. Mine is April 21, which is QE2's birthday (and one day after Hitler - phew, dodged a bullet there!) but I don't know who the MLB players are... while I look for mine, why don't you post yours -

What MLBers were born on your birthday?

[DaveW]

July 17 for me. The only Hall of Fame player born on that day is Lou Boudreau.
Lots of guys that I’ve never heard of too. Surely somebody can beat that.

[sando69]

wow!
what a coincidence the first reply would be from someone with MY same birthday.
also remember roy mcmillan (1929), and net54 member, kevin s.- baseball rarities,
as well as the date that ty cobb died (1961).

[Cliff Bowman]

Kirby Puckett, not too shabby.

[Joe_G.]

Easy for me, Dan Brouthers far and away the best.

Honorable mention to Edd Roush and Ross Barnes.

[HRBAKER]

8/9 - Ted Simmons & Deion Sanders

2/6 (my wife) - Babe Ruth

[RCMcKenzie]

Branch Rickey

Fred Merkle

Gabby Harnett

Cecil Cooper



Awesome names. I'm such a lucky guy.

[Casey2296]

Stan Musial, Ken Griffey Jr, and Bobby Mathews, inventor of the spitball and fadeaway curve.

[MINES_MINT]

Pair of Aces: Smoky Joe Wood & Pedro Martinez

[BuzzD]

Yogi Berra!

It gets late early around here... It sure does

[toledo_mudhen]

hmmmm - Lefty Gomez for me - Who'd a thunk it? I am also "Left-Handed"

Found on Baseball Almanac page along with lots of other cool stuff.

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/his...ay.php?d=11-26

I think if you just change the "11-26" to your date it will happen

[BruceinGa]

Harry Lumley
Hunky Shaw
Harry Steinfeldt
"modern" player Rob Deer

[bn2cardz]

I did this same thread a few years ago:
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=214469

At that point I said Mike Piazza and I still think that is the right answer, but I would also add Andrelton Simmons now as a second place player for a Sept 4th birthday.

[yanks87]

Hack Wilson, Virgil Trucks and Aaron Judge.

[philliesfan]

January 31 for me -----Nolan Ryan AND Jackie Robinson. Also, Tyler Seguin in hockey........also Justin Timberlake.

[bbcard1]

Iron Man McGinnity. After that the picking get really slim...like probably Paul Mirabella thin.

[mattsey9]

2 HOFers

Robin Yount
Tim Raines

Also:

B.B.King
Lauren Bacall

[One 'ol Cat]

Okay, there are currently 333 members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. 31 are executives and 10 are umpires. (TEN UMPIRES?!) So that means there are 292 players/managers in the Hall of Fame. That means that, on average, you have an 80% chance that a hall of famer (people who wore the uniform) was born on your birthday.
I have two. John McGraw and Bobby Doerr. I beat the odds.

[tlhss]

Enos Slaughter

Rogers Hornsby

[toppcat]

For Nov. 22, which I share with JFK's assassination and is occasionally on Thanksgiving, it looks like Dick Bartell or Lew Burdette. Had he not been murdered, Lyman Bostock might well have topped those two.

[conor912]

My mom got me this for my birthday. Yes, you read that right. I just looked and, lo and behold, Boss and I share a birthday....today. Happy Birthday, Boss!!!

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by conor912

My mom got me this for my birthday. Yes, you read that right. I just looked and, lo and behold, Boss and I share a birthday....today. Happy Birthday, Boss!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY....Conor


TED Z
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[tedzan]

NOV 5th

I cannot think of any major BB players who were born on my Birthday (Walter Johnson is on Nov 6th).

Anyhow, Harry Gumbert (15-year ML career pitching for Giants, Cardinals, and Cincinnati) born Nov 5.
Harry was born in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania....I was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Quite a coincidence.

Jim Tabor [9-year ML career (7 with Red Sox and 2 with Phillies) as a 3rd Baseman. His claim to fame
is 3 HR's in a game on July 4, 1939 of which 2 of them were Grand-Slams that were hit in consecutive
innings. This noteworthy feat may be Major League record.
Check-out this coincidence...Tabor was born in New Hope, Alabama...I live in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Don't mind me, I am fascinated by such type of coincidences.

Furthermore, major celebrities with the same Birthday are Roy Rogers (favorite Cowboy), Joel McCrea,
Art Garfunkle, Peter Noone, Elke Summer, and Vivian Leigh.

Off the top of my mind, they are the notable folks whose Birthday is Nov 5th. I'll do a bit of homework
to see if I can come up with some more.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[One 'ol Cat]

In the early 1960's there arrived at the studio where the Beatles were recording a demonstration tape from Peter Noone, of Herman's Hermits fame. The piece of tape that labeled the recording read "Peter Noone". Unfortunately, the handwritten label had a slight space between the two o's of his last name. For the rest of his life, the ever sarcastic John Lennon called Peter Noone, "Peter No One".

[darwinbulldog]

Joe Morgan

[Leon]

Originally Posted by timn1

The thread about Leon's September 5 birthday (Happy Birthday buddy!) which is also Nap Lajoie's birthday got me thinking -

Who is the greatest player born on your birthday?

It may take some digging, but let's try. Mine is April 21, which is QE2's birthday (and one day after Hitler - phew, dodged a bullet there!) but I don't know who the MLB players are... while I look for mine, why don't you post yours -

What MLBers were born on your birthday?

Didn't know it was Lajoies bday too. Might have to pick up a few of his cards.

[fkm_bky]

Willie Wilson & Wally Post

Babe Ruth for my son

Bill

[hcv123]

Todd Frazier
Joe Garagiola
Dom DiMaggio

I do better in the President department - Abe Lincoln!