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March 8
The record for March 8 in baseball history — 56 births and 24 deaths.
No milestones or firsts are on record for March 8 — but the players below were born and lost on it.
Born on this day
b. March 8, 1875 · First baseman for the Boston Doves, 1907 to 1907.
b. March 8, 1882 · Third baseman who batted .278 across four clubs, 1907 to 1915.
b. March 8, 1890 · Pitcher across four clubs, 1922 to 1927.
b. March 8, 1895 · Won 46 games as a pitcher while hitting .291 and playing 59 games at first base.
b. March 8, 1912 · Caught all 155 games Cincinnati played in 1944, a workload matched by only one other catcher that year and bettered since by only two.
b. March 8, 1917 · Catcher who batted .273 across three clubs, 1945 to 1950.
b. March 8, 1922 · Brooklyn and Los Angeles right fielder who batted .299 with 1,910 hits, twice an All-Star.
b. March 8, 1922 · Center fielder who batted .266 across two clubs, 1944 to 1947.
b. March 8, 1926 · Baseball figure for the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1953 to 1953.
b. March 8, 1930 · Right-hander who won twenty games as a Yankees rookie in 1954, then had his career reshaped by arm trouble.
b. March 8, 1939 · Won 21 games for the Yankees at twenty-four, then wrote Ball Four and was frozen out of the game for it.
b. March 8, 1942 · A hitter the Hall of Fame took forty-eight years to elect, twice leaving him one vote short.
b. March 8, 1942 · Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, 1962 to 1962.
b. March 8, 1953 · In 1978 he hit 46 home runs and 15 triples and reached 406 total bases, the last 400 anyone has managed in the American League.
b. March 8, 1953 · Catcher across two clubs, 1975 to 1982.
b. March 8, 1957 · Pitcher across four clubs, 1981 to 1987.
b. March 8, 1968 · Pitcher across three clubs, 1995 to 1999.
b. March 8, 1982 · Second baseman for the San Diego Padres, 2007 to 2009.
b. March 8, 1983 · Pitcher across two clubs, 2008 to 2009.
b. March 8, 1994 · First baseman for the Washington Nationals, 2019 to 2020.
b. March 8, 1996 · Center fielder for the Miami Marlins, 2023 to 2025.
b. March 8, 1996 · Left fielder for the Tampa Bay Rays, 2025 to 2025.
b. March 8, 1999 · Right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2022 to 2023.
b. March 8, 2000 · Pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, 2024 to 2025.
56 players were born on March 8; these are the 24 best known.
Died on this day
d. March 8, 1924 · Pitcher who batted .259 across four clubs, 1883 to 1888.
d. March 8, 1926 · Pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, 1911 to 1911.
d. March 8, 1939 · Pitcher who batted .274 across three clubs, 1888 to 1895.
d. March 8, 1943 · Shortstop who batted .296 across six clubs, 1920 to 1935.
d. March 8, 1971 · Center fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1929 to 1930.
d. March 8, 1973 · First baseman across two clubs, 1930 to 1941.
d. March 8, 1974 · Baseball figure for the Chicago White Sox, 1921 to 1921.
d. March 8, 1977 · Pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, 1922 to 1922.
d. March 8, 1978 · Left fielder who batted .305 across six clubs, 1922 to 1933.
d. March 8, 1981 · Pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, 1933 to 1933.
d. March 8, 1984 · Pitcher for the Boston Braves, 1929 to 1932.
d. March 8, 1985 · Catcher who batted .276 across four clubs, 1932 to 1943.
d. March 8, 1989 · First baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1950 to 1950.
d. March 8, 1992 · Pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, 1934 to 1934.
d. March 8, 1996 · Led the National League in home runs and runs batted in two years running and lost the 1944 award by one point.
d. March 8, 1999 · Hit in 56 straight games in 1941, a record no one has approached, and won nine World Series in thirteen seasons.
d. March 8, 2002 · Third baseman across two clubs, 1942 to 1947.
d. March 8, 2007 · Third baseman who batted .161 across three clubs, 1970 to 1981.
d. March 8, 2007 · Shortstop who batted .243 across six clubs, 1962 to 1972.
d. March 8, 2008 · Shortstop across two clubs, 1958 to 1959.
d. March 8, 2009 · Pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1952 to 1952.
d. March 8, 2014 · Catcher across two clubs, 1977 to 1983.
d. March 8, 2021 · Was one of the few Canadian-born pitchers to have a long major-league career, spanning sixteen seasons and five clubs.
d. March 8, 2021 · Catcher across two clubs, 1959 to 1963.