Eastern Kentucky University Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

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

"He (Clyde Hatter) went home that winter and they found him dead in the back of his father's car. From booze." - Marv Owen in Cobb Would Have Caught It (Richard Bak, Page 239)
Eastern Kentucky University
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Major League Baseball Player Alumnus

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

Jim Park (Kentucky)

1912 - 1912

09-07-1915

Earle Combs

1918 - 1921

04-16-1924

Clyde Hatter

1927 - 1932

04-23-1935

Scott Earl

1981 - 1981

09-10-1984

Steve Engel

1981 - 1983

09-15-1961

Gene Walter

1981 - 1982

08-09-1985

Bobby Moore

1985 - 1987

09-05-1991

Brandon Berger

1994 - 1996

09-09-2001

Josh Anderson

2002 - 2003

09-02-2007

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

Eastern Kentucky University M.L.B. Player Alumnus



The Eastern Kentucky University baseball program started in 1907 and Jim Park was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

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