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February 25
The record for February 25 in baseball history — 58 births and 27 deaths.
No milestones or firsts are on record for February 25 — but the players below were born and lost on it.
Born on this day
b. February 25, 1854 · First baseman across three clubs, 1879 to 1882.
b. February 25, 1862 · Third baseman across two clubs, 1883 to 1886.
b. February 25, 1884 · Left fielder who batted .258 across four clubs, 1908 to 1918.
b. February 25, 1889 · Pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, 1913 to 1913.
b. February 25, 1897 · Pitcher across two clubs, 1924 to 1925.
b. February 25, 1899 · Second baseman for the Chicago Giants, 1920 to 1920.
b. February 25, 1905 · Center fielder who batted .258 across two clubs, 1925 to 1937.
b. February 25, 1908 · Pitcher who batted .196 across six clubs, 1935 to 1946.
b. February 25, 1911 · Pitcher for the Boston Bees, 1936 to 1939.
b. February 25, 1915 · Collected 175 hits and scored 90 runs for Cleveland in 1940, finishing eleventh in Most Valuable Player voting.
b. February 25, 1919 · Led his league in runs batted in ten years apart, at twenty-two with Newark and at thirty-two with the Giants.
b. February 25, 1921 · Was the Brooklyn left fielder standing at the wall when Bobby Thomson's home run went over it.
b. February 25, 1939 · Pitcher who batted .130 across four clubs, 1962 to 1972.
b. February 25, 1940 · Fourteen years at third base for the Cubs, played through a diabetes diagnosis he kept quiet, and a Hall of Fame election he did not live to see.
b. February 25, 1940 · First baseman who batted .276 across seven clubs, 1964 to 1975.
b. February 25, 1941 · Pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, 1964 to 1964.
b. February 25, 1951 · Stole fifty bases in six straight seasons and was compared to Willie Mays at twenty-two.
b. February 25, 1954 · Catcher who batted .247 across two clubs, 1981 to 1989.
b. February 25, 1961 · Pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, 1990 to 1991.
b. February 25, 1963 · Right fielder who batted .288 with 281 home runs across two clubs, five times an All-Star.
b. February 25, 1968 · Center fielder who batted .266 across two clubs, 1992 to 1996.
b. February 25, 1987 · Pitcher for the San Diego Padres, 2012 to 2012.
b. February 25, 1988 · Pitcher for the New York Yankees, 2016 to 2016.
b. February 25, 1996 · Pitcher across two clubs, 2020 to 2022.
58 players were born on February 25; these are the 24 best known.
Died on this day
d. February 25, 1916 · Center fielder who batted .254 across five clubs, 1871 to 1876.
d. February 25, 1926 · Pitcher who batted .216 across three clubs, 1902 to 1915.
d. February 25, 1934 · A third baseman for the rough Baltimore Orioles of the 1890s who reached base more often than anyone except Ted Williams and Babe Ruth.
d. February 25, 1937 · Pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, 1893 to 1893.
d. February 25, 1944 · Pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, 1920 to 1920.
d. February 25, 1951 · Pitched twenty seasons and sixteen of them fall outside the counted record, because no league existed to hold them.
d. February 25, 1955 · Pitcher for the Boston Braves, 1924 to 1925.
d. February 25, 1956 · Second baseman who batted .247 across two clubs, 1911 to 1915.
d. February 25, 1963 · Pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1921 to 1921.
d. February 25, 1969 · Third baseman who batted .297 across two clubs, 1920 to 1928.
d. February 25, 1981 · Catcher for the Cleveland Indians, 1925 to 1925.
d. February 25, 1986 · Caught 140 games for five organizations across eight seasons spread over sixteen years.
d. February 25, 1997 · Left fielder who batted .269 across five clubs, 1949 to 1956.
d. February 25, 1998 · Left fielder across three clubs, 1939 to 1940.
d. February 25, 1999 · Pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, 1935 to 1935.
d. February 25, 2000 · Center fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1941 to 1947.
d. February 25, 2001 · Shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1945 to 1945.
d. February 25, 2005 · Third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1965 to 1965.
d. February 25, 2008 · Pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1944 to 1944.
d. February 25, 2012 · Pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, 1973 to 1973.
d. February 25, 2020 · Catcher across two clubs, 1942 to 1949.
d. February 25, 2022 · Pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, 1976 to 1976.
d. February 25, 2023 · Left fielder who batted .212 across four clubs, 1960 to 1967.
d. February 25, 2024 · Pitcher across five clubs, 1983 to 1995.
27 players died on February 25; these are the 24 best known.