Yale University Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

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

"His (Ron Darling) season (1981) was probably the greatest a Yale player has ever had as far as both pitching and hitting go." - Yale University Coach Joe Benato in the Yale Herald (1999)
Yale College
"Bulldogs"

Major League Baseball Player Alumnus

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

Edgar Smith

1882 - 1882

05-25-1883

Jack Jones

1882 - 1883

07-09-1883

Al Hubbard

1882 - 1883

09-13-1883

Bill Hutchison

1878 - 1881

06-10-1884

Bill Vinton

1884 - 1884

07-03-1884

Yale University
"Bulldogs"

Major League Baseball Player Alumnus

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

Denny O'Neil (Holy Cross)

1893 - 1893

06-18-1893

Yale Murphy

1890 - 1893

04-19-1894

Ed Buckingham

1892 - 1895

08-30-1895

Queenie O'Rourke (Holy Cross)

1901 - 1901 & 1903 - 1903

08-15-1908

Barney Reilly

1904 - 1909

07-02-1909

Pete Falsey

1910 - 1914

07-16-1914

Spencer Pumpelly

1912 - 1917

07-11-1925

Bruce Caldwell (Brown)

1927 - 1928

06-30-1928

Johnny Broaca

1932 - 1932

06-02-1934

Eddie Collins

1937 - 1939

07-04-1939

Joe Wood

1939 - 1941

05-01-1944

Frank Quinn

1945 - 1948

05-29-1949

Dick Manville

1945 - 1945

04-30-1950

Dick Tettelbach

1948 - 1950

09-25-1955

Bob Davis

1953 - 1955

07-26-1958

Ken MacKenzie

1955 - 1956

05-02-1960

Ron Darling

1979 - 1981

09-06-1983

Craig Breslow

2002 - 2002

07-23-2005

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

Yale University M.L.B. Player Alumnus



The Yale University baseball program started in 1865 and Edgar Smith was their first player to make it to the Major League level.

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Frank Quinn was a Bulldog from 1945 through 1948 and during his tenure he set and still holds the following records: Most Innings Pitched in a Season (141.0 in 1948), Most Wins in a Season (11 in 1947 [tied with Ron Darling who had 11 in 1980]) and Most Strikeouts in a Season (149 in 1947).