College of the Holy Cross Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

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

"The right fielder has to be very careful when a fight breaks out and the benches empty. He's always got his back to the enemy bullpen." - Mike Hegan (1969)
College of the Holy Cross
"Crusaders"

Major League Baseball Player Alumnus

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

Tim Murnane

1868 - 1870

04-26-1876

Denny Sullivan (Boston)

1878 - 1879

08-25-1879

Ed Conley

1883 - 1884

07-20-1884

Tom Gunning (Boston & Pennsylvania)

1881 - 1884

07-26-1884

Jimmy Ryan (Boston)

1881 - 1885

10-08-1885

John Keefe

1886 - 1889

04-28-1890

Tom Cahill (Pennsylvania)

1885 - 1888

04-09-1891

Bill Merritt

1889 - 1891

08-08-1891

Jimmy Bannon

1892 - 1893

06-15-1893

John Stafford

1890 - 1893

06-15-1893

Denny O'Neil (Yale)

1889 - 1892

06-18-1893

Jack McCarthy

1891 - 1893

08-03-1893

Tom Smith (Fordham)

1891 - 1892

06-06-1894

Louis Sockalexis

1895 - 1896

04-22-1897

Tom Leahy

1891 - 1893

05-18-1897

John Pappalau

1895 - 1897

06-09-1897

Bill Fox

1895 - 1897

08-20-1897

Doc Powers (Louisville & Notre Dame)

1894 - 1897

06-12-1898

Doc Curley (Massachusetts & Virginia)

1894 - 1898

09-12-1899

Mike Hickey

1890 - 1893

09-14-1899

Pat Carney

1898 - 1901

09-20-1901

Rube Ward

1899 - 1901

04-28-1902

Andy Coakley

1901 - 1903

09-17-1902

Conny McGeehan

1901 - 1903

07-15-1903

Pete Noonan

1900 - 1904

06-20-1904

Tom Stankard

1901 - 1904

07-02-1904

Jack Hoey

1904 - 1906

06-27-1906

Bill Carrigan

1904 - 1906

07-07-1906

Jack Barry

1906 - 1907

07-13-1908

Queenie O'Rourke (Yale)

1904 - 1905

08-15-1908

Doc McMahon

1906 - 1908

10-06-1908

Ed Larkin

1905 - 1906

10-02-1909

John Flynn

1904 - 1906

04-22-1910

Hugh Bradley

1905 - 1907

04-25-1910

Kip Dowd

1907 - 1910

07-05-1910

Danny Mahoney

1908 - 1911

05-15-1911

Andy Harrington (Boston)

1908 - 1912

09-08-1913

Doc Carroll

1912 - 1916

06-27-1916

Bill Murray (Brown)

1913 - 1917

06-27-1917

Joe Dugan

1916 - 1917

07-05-1917

Ed Gill

1916 - 1919

07-05-1919

Jigger Statz

1917 - 1919

07-30-1919

Rosy Ryan

1917 - 1919

09-07-1919

Chick Bowen

1916 - 1919

09-15-1919

Chick Gagnon

1919 - 1922

06-27-1922

Freddie Maguire

1919 - 1922

09-22-1922

Haddie Gill

1920 - 1923

08-16-1923

Ownie Carroll

1922 - 1925

06-20-1925

Doc Gautreau

1922 - 1925

06-22-1925

Pete Cote

1923 - 1926

06-18-1926

John Freeman

1924 - 1926

06-17-1927

Ray Dobens

1926 - 1929

07-07-1929

Bots Nekola

1929 - 1929

07-19-1929

Gene Desautels

1928 - 1930

06-22-1930

Jimmy Shevlin

1928 - 1930

06-29-1930

Blondy Ryan

1927 - 1930

07-13-1930

Hank Garrity

1929 - 1931

07-26-1931

Jo-Jo Morrissey

1924 - 1926

04-12-1932

Bob Friedrichs

1929 - 1931

05-17-1932

Tom Padden

1925 - 1927

05-29-1932

Joe Mulligan

1932 - 1934

06-28-1934

Al Niemiec

1931 - 1933

09-19-1934

Ed Moriarty

1933 - 1935

06-21-1935

Eddie Wilson

1928 - 1936

06-21-1936

Bob Daughters

1935 - 1936

04-24-1937

Bill Lefebvre

1936 - 1938

06-10-1938

Art Kenney

1936 - 1938

07-01-1938

Pinky Woods

1940 - 1941

06-20-1943

Bill Mills

1940 - 1944

05-19-1944

Pete Naton

1951 - 1953

06-16-1953

Gordon Massa

1954 - 1957

09-24-1957

Bill Spanswick

1956 - 1958

04-18-1964

Mike Hegan

1961 - 1961

09-13-1964

Dick Joyce

1963 - 1964

09-03-1965

Pat Bourque

1968 - 1969

09-06-1971

Mike Pazik

1970 - 1971

05-11-1975

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

College of the Holy Cross M.L.B. Player Alumnus



The College of the Holy Cross baseball program started in 1843 and Tim Murnane was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

Did you know that there are seventy-six (76) former College of the Holy Cross players who made it to "the show"? Send corrections or updates to Baseball Almanac.

The Holy Cross Crusaders team color is royal purple, their home games are played on Fitton Field, they do not have any team-specific Hall of Fame, and twelve (12) of their players also played college ball at a different school.