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

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

"He's (Darold Knowles) got the courage of a daylight burglar." - Philadelphia Phillies Manager Gene Mauch
University of Missouri
"Tigers"

Major League Baseball Player Alumnus

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

Bob Larmore

1915 - 1917

05-14-1918

Homer Summa

1918 - 1918

09-13-1920

Hub Pruett

1921 - 1921

04-26-1922

Joe Bennett

1920 - 1923

07-05-1923

Dennis Burns

1917 - 1923

09-22-1923

Glenn Wright

1920 - 1923

04-15-1924

Bill Windle

1925 - 1926

09-27-1928

Carl Miles (Iowa)

1938 - 1940

06-08-1940

Jay Difani

1941 - 1943

04-23-1948

Jake Crawford

1947 - 1951

09-07-1952

Neal Hertweck

1949 - 1952

09-27-1952

Jerry Schoonmaker

1953 - 1955

06-11-1955

Bob Smith

1948 - 1950

04-22-1958

Charlie James

1957 - 1957

08-02-1960

Jay Hankins

1954 - 1957

04-15-1961

Dick Kenworthy

1960 - 1960

09-08-1962

Mike Shannon

1958 - 1958

09-11-1962

John O'Donoghue

1958 - 1959

09-29-1963

Sonny Siebert

1958 - 1958

04-26-1964

Art Shamsky

1959 - 1959

04-17-1965

Darold Knowles

1960 - 1960

04-18-1965

John Sevcik

1962 - 1964

04-24-1965

Dennis Musgraves

1964 - 1964

07-09-1965

Byron Browne

1961 - 1962

09-09-1965

Rick Henninger

1968 - 1968

09-03-1973

Tim Laudner

1977 - 1979

08-28-1981

Phil Bradley

1979 - 1981

09-02-1983

Jeff Cornell

1976 - 1978

06-02-1984

Ron Mathis

1978 - 1980

04-13-1985

Dave Otto

1983 - 1985

09-08-1987

Scott Little

1983 - 1983

07-27-1989

Dave Silvestri

1986 - 1988

04-27-1992

John Dettmer

1989 - 1992

06-16-1994

Shaun Marcum (SW Missouri State)

2001 - 2001

09-06-2005

Ian Kinsler (Arizona State)

2003 - 2003

04-03-2006

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

University of Missouri M.L.B. Player Alumnus



The University of Missouri's baseball program started in 1891 and Bob Larmore was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

The University of Missouri Tigers play their home games in the Ralph & Debbie Taylor Stadium which was completely rennovated in early 2000.

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