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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.
The following is a list of Major League Baseball players, retired or active. As of the end of the 2018 season , there have been 580 players with a last name that begins with A who have been on a major league roster at some point.
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.
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
Bob Horner is the only player to go directly to MLB and win a Rookie of the Year Award. Tim Conroy and Brian Milner are the most recent players to go straight from high school to MLB, having debuted on the same day in 1978. [2] Dave Winfield is the most recent player to jump directly to MLB and subsequently be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
We did our best to count them down in order, 25th best on down to No. 1 -- based solely on players' bodies of work since 1990. Ranking the top 25 MLB players of the last 25 years Skip to main content
Fewer than 70 athletes are known to have played in both Major League Baseball (MLB) [a] and the National Football League (NFL). This includes two Heisman Trophy winners (Vic Janowicz and Bo Jackson) [1] and seven members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Red Badgro, [2] Paddy Driscoll, [3] George Halas, [4] Ernie Nevers, [5] Ace Parker, [6] Jim Thorpe, [7] and Deion Sanders). [8]
In November of 1979, Nolan Ryan and the Houston Astros agreed to a four-year, $4 million agreement, making the Texas hurler the first player in MLB history to make at least a million dollars per year.