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December 27
The record for December 27 in baseball history — 55 births and 38 deaths.
No milestones or firsts are on record for December 27 — but the players below were born and lost on it.
Born on this day
b. December 27, 1862 · Right fielder across three clubs, 1887 to 1890.
b. December 27, 1881 · Pitcher for the New York Highlanders, 1903 to 1903.
b. December 27, 1886 · Catcher across two clubs, 1914 to 1915.
b. December 27, 1890 · Catcher who batted .263 across five clubs, 1913 to 1925.
b. December 27, 1910 · Pitcher across six clubs, 1932 to 1943.
b. December 27, 1912 · Third baseman for the Memphis Red Sox through the 1930s and 1940s, named to two All-Star squads.
b. December 27, 1916 · Second baseman across four clubs, 1943 to 1946.
b. December 27, 1917 · Pitcher for the New York Yankees, 1946 to 1946.
b. December 27, 1920 · Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, 1948 to 1948.
b. December 27, 1922 · Pitched for the Kansas City Monarchs before the major leagues would have him, then won 14 games at thirty-five for Baltimore.
b. December 27, 1937 · Second baseman who batted .208 across two clubs, 1964 to 1965.
b. December 27, 1942 · Left fielder who batted .236 across four clubs, 1965 to 1972.
b. December 27, 1943 · Played all fifteen seasons for the Yankees, through the worst years the club has had and out the other side.
b. December 27, 1949 · Pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, 1982 to 1982.
b. December 27, 1952 · Led the American League in triples in his last year there, then spent eleven seasons as Houston's shortstop.
b. December 27, 1955 · Shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1980 to 1981.
b. December 27, 1968 · Hit 275 home runs at third base and struck out more than a fifth of the time doing it.
b. December 27, 1981 · Pitcher across eight clubs, 2004 to 2015.
b. December 27, 1982 · Catcher who batted .218 across six clubs, 2009 to 2018.
b. December 27, 1983 · Was the most valuable player of both the Championship Series and the World Series in 2008.
b. December 27, 1988 · Won the 2016 Cy Young Award with fewer first-place votes than the man he beat.
b. December 27, 1988 · Pitcher with 125 career saves across five clubs, 2011 to 2018.
b. December 27, 1990 · Pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2024 to 2024.
b. December 27, 1990 · Pitcher across eight clubs, 2016 to 2024.
55 players were born on December 27; these are the 24 best known.
Died on this day
d. December 27, 1907 · Right fielder for the Chicago Colts, 1890 to 1890.
d. December 27, 1919 · Catcher across two clubs, 1901 to 1907.
d. December 27, 1920 · Pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1902 to 1902.
d. December 27, 1928 · Third baseman for the Toledo Blue Stockings, 1884 to 1884.
d. December 27, 1932 · Caught 656 games for eight club identities across fourteen seasons.
d. December 27, 1932 · Second baseman for the Chicago White Stockings, 1881 to 1881.
d. December 27, 1933 · Catcher who batted .192 across five clubs, 1899 to 1907.
d. December 27, 1945 · Pitcher for the Washington Senators, 1897 to 1898.
d. December 27, 1945 · Pitcher for the Boston Braves, 1913 to 1915.
d. December 27, 1951 · Pitcher for the Boston Doves, 1907 to 1907.
d. December 27, 1955 · Pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, 1903 to 1904.
d. December 27, 1956 · Third baseman for the Boston Red Sox, 1920 to 1921.
d. December 27, 1962 · Second baseman who batted .256 across four clubs, 1923 to 1934.
d. December 27, 1964 · Third baseman who batted .236 across two clubs, 1910 to 1915.
d. December 27, 1965 · Pitcher across three clubs, 1913 to 1915.
d. December 27, 1982 · First baseman for the New York Yankees, 1914 to 1914.
d. December 27, 1986 · Shortstop who batted .205 across two clubs, 1940 to 1948.
d. December 27, 1995 · Reached the National League at twenty-five and worked in it for twenty-eight seasons across thirty-one years, with two lost to the war.
d. December 27, 1996 · Pitcher across three clubs, 1966 to 1970.
d. December 27, 2003 · Right fielder who batted .272 across four clubs, 1984 to 1993.
d. December 27, 2004 · Pitcher across two clubs, 1947 to 1949.
d. December 27, 2015 · Center fielder who batted .258 across five clubs, 1981 to 1994.
d. December 27, 2019 · Pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, 1951 to 1953.
d. December 27, 2024 · Hit so many home runs on Sundays in Detroit that the habit became his name.
38 players died on December 27; these are the 24 best known.