University of Delaware Baseball Players Who Made it to a Major League Baseball Team

University of Delaware Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

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

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University of Delaware "Blue Hens" University of Delaware Official Logo Major League Baseball Player Alumnus
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
Vic Willis	1897 - 1897	04-20-1898
Dallas Green	1954 - 1955	06-18-1960
Al Neiger	1958 - 1959	07-30-1960
Lee Elia	1958 - 1958	04-23-1966
Keith Garagozzo	1989 - 1991	04-05-1994
Brian Lesher	1990 - 1992	08-25-1996
Cliff Brumbaugh	1993 - 1995	05-30-2001
Mike Koplove^{(Northwestern)}	1998 - 1998	09-06-2001
Kevin Mench	1997 - 1997	04-09-2002
Name [Click for M.L. Stats]	Dates Played	Debut / Box
University of Delaware M.L.B. Player Alumnus

The University of Delaware baseball program started in 1882 and Vic Willis was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

There are an additional four Major League ballplayers who attended the University of Delaware, but did not play for the Blue Hens while attending classes. Those players were: Curly Ogden (who did play at Swarthmore College), Jack Meyer (who did play at the Wake Forest College), Nick Testa (who did play at the University of Florida), Tom Herr & Andy Carter.

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