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As such, player representation by birth spans to 25 countries as of the 2022 MLB season, with the United States topping the list at 1,057 players called up to 26-man rosters. [9] The most represented overseas country is the Dominican Republic, with 171 players called up to 26-man rosters. [9]
This list consists of players who have appeared in Major League Baseball. Note that the list also includes players who appeared in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which is not universally considered a major league. The list is broken down into a page of each letter to reduce the size.
National Association players are included in the major league records of sites such as Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet, thus are also included here. The European countries highlighted in blue have had a least one player born there play in a major league game, through the 2019 season.
List of Major League Baseball pitchers who have thrown an immaculate inning; List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle; List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise; List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat
For lists of MLB players' batting and pitching accomplishments, see: Category:Major League Baseball lists. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.It comprises 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada.
In 1999, he ranked number 15 on The Sporting News ' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, [46] and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. Tom Hanks 's character Jimmy Dugan in the movie A League of Their Own was largely based on Foxx and Hack Wilson , although the producers took a number of liberties in creating the ...
The first edition of the book included over 1,500 pages of statistics for all of the then 13,160 players in the history of the game. [2] The Player Register section provided 27 batting, baserunning, and fielding statistics, broken out by year and team. The Pitcher Register included 28 pitching, batting, baserunning, and fielding statistics.