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November 8
The record for November 8 in baseball history — 47 births and 32 deaths.
No milestones or firsts are on record for November 8 — but the players below were born and lost on it.
Born on this day
b. November 8, 1869 · Right fielder for the St. Louis Browns, 1894 to 1894.
b. November 8, 1870 · Pitcher who batted .229 across three clubs, 1895 to 1901.
b. November 8, 1876 · Shortstop who batted .240 across three clubs, 1901 to 1907.
b. November 8, 1893 · Pitcher across four clubs, 1914 to 1923.
b. November 8, 1896 · Washington's second baseman through the 1920s, and its player-manager when the club won the 1924 World Series; the Hall elected him as a manager.
b. November 8, 1901 · Collected 112 hits, 51 runs batted in and 61 walks for the 1929 Browns.
b. November 8, 1907 · Lost the 1945 batting race by less than a point at thirty-seven and was released that winter.
b. November 8, 1922 · Catcher for the Boston Braves, 1946 to 1947.
b. November 8, 1940 · Center fielder who batted .228 across four clubs, 1964 to 1970.
b. November 8, 1944 · First baseman who played all eighteen of his seasons for the New York Mets, from the 1962 expansion team to 1979.
b. November 8, 1952 · Had the best earned run average in the National League at twenty-three and won the Cy Young Award seven years later.
b. November 8, 1952 · Second baseman who batted .275 across two clubs, 1975 to 1984.
b. November 8, 1954 · Pitcher across three clubs, 1980 to 1987.
b. November 8, 1958 · Pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, 1985 to 1985.
b. November 8, 1963 · Left fielder who batted .275 across four clubs, 1989 to 1996.
b. November 8, 1965 · Shortstop who batted .262 across two clubs, 1987 to 1999.
b. November 8, 1967 · Right fielder who batted .231 across five clubs, 1989 to 1997.
b. November 8, 1967 · Left fielder who batted .259 across five clubs, 1992 to 2002.
b. November 8, 1968 · Led his league in triples twice and drew 772 walks from the top of the order.
b. November 8, 1973 · Second baseman who batted .284 across four clubs, 1995 to 2006.
b. November 8, 1976 · Designated hitter for the Baltimore Orioles, 2000 to 2000.
b. November 8, 1985 · Second baseman who batted .246 across three clubs, 2010 to 2017.
b. November 8, 1987 · Pitcher across six clubs, 2011 to 2024.
b. November 8, 1989 · Hit 59 home runs in 2017, more than anyone had managed in the sixteen years before it.
47 players were born on November 8; these are the 24 best known.
Died on this day
d. November 8, 1894 · Baseball's first celebrity, sold from Chicago to Boston for a record price and serenaded by a song about the way he slid.
d. November 8, 1911 · Shortstop across two clubs, 1898 to 1901.
d. November 8, 1912 · Second baseman who batted .306 across five clubs, 1888 to 1901.
d. November 8, 1918 · Left fielder across three clubs, 1913 to 1917.
d. November 8, 1931 · Shortstop for the Detroit Wolverines, 1884 to 1885.
d. November 8, 1937 · Center fielder across two clubs, 1884 to 1884.
d. November 8, 1942 · Pitcher for the Pittsburg Alleghenys, 1886 to 1886.
d. November 8, 1951 · Second baseman who batted .273 across four clubs, 1897 to 1909.
d. November 8, 1957 · Pitcher across four clubs, 1909 to 1918.
d. November 8, 1957 · Third baseman across five clubs, 1895 to 1905.
d. November 8, 1966 · Second baseman across three clubs, 1930 to 1933.
d. November 8, 1970 · Shortstop for the St. Louis Browns, 1917 to 1917.
d. November 8, 1972 · Pitcher for the Washington Senators, 1930 to 1930.
d. November 8, 1973 · Pitcher across three clubs, 1941 to 1952.
d. November 8, 1975 · Pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, 1909 to 1910.
d. November 8, 1977 · Right-hander whose two All-Star selections came thirteen years apart, in 1935 and 1948.
d. November 8, 1977 · Washington's second baseman through the 1920s, and its player-manager when the club won the 1924 World Series; the Hall elected him as a manager.
d. November 8, 1977 · Catcher for the New York Giants, 1946 to 1946.
d. November 8, 1980 · Pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1941 to 1941.
d. November 8, 1989 · Pitcher across three clubs, 1936 to 1947.
d. November 8, 1990 · Scored 120 runs to lead the National League in 1950 and drew 980 walks in a career nobody remembers.
d. November 8, 1993 · Center fielder who batted .288 across two clubs, 1933 to 1942.
d. November 8, 2012 · Larry MacPhail's son, American League president, and the man who ruled that George Brett's pine-tar home run counted.
d. November 8, 2017 · Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, 1962 to 1962.
32 players died on November 8; these are the 24 best known.