Amherst College Baseball Players Who Made it to a Major League Baseball Team

Amherst College Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart of every Amherst College alumnus who played baseball at the Amherst College AND made it to the Major League level.

"It (the death of John Cerutti) was an unbelievable shock," Toronto Blue Jays president Paul Godfrey said, in wire reports. "We all realize, those of us involved in winning and losing games, how unimportant that is at a time like this."

Amherst College "Lord Jeffs" In Chronological Order
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Pete Allen	1892 - 1893	08-04-1893
Ray Nelson	1895 - 1897	05-06-1901
Jack Dunleavy	1901 - 1902	05-30-1903
Alan Storke	1903 - 1906	09-24-1906
John Henry	1907 - 1907 & 1909 - 1910	07-08-1910
Larry McClure^{(West Virginia)}	1907 - 1909	07-26-1910
Joe Vernon	1909 - 1912	07-20-1912
Steve Partenheimer	1910 - 1913	06-28-1913
Dick Wheeler	1917 - 1920	06-17-1918
Walter Zink	1918 - 1921	07-06-1921
Howdy Groskloss	1929 - 1930	06-23-1930
Ace Williams	1938 - 1940	07-15-1940
Rich Thompson	1978 - 1980	04-28-1985
John Cerutti	1979 - 1981	09-01-1985
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Amherst College MLB Player Alumnus

The Amherst College baseball program started in 1859 and Pete Allen was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

The Ameherst Lord Jeffs are named after Lord Jeffrey Amherst, the commanding general of British forces in North America during the final battles of the French & Indian war (1754-1763) and Governor of Virginia (1763).

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