JUST FOR FUN: Which MLB Player was born closest to your birthday?

[clydepepper]

Using BaseballResearch.Com,

I found that Jim Tracy (DOB: 12/31/55) was born closest to me (01/06/56)


just another useless waste of time? Or more fanatical research?


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[HRBAKER]

Jim Aducci was born the same day I was.

[steve B]

How do you do that search?

[edtiques]

Mike Mason was born on 11/21/1958. My DOB is 11/20/1958.

[edtiques]

Originally Posted by steve B

How do you do that search?

Steve,just ask "What baseball player was born on your birthday"on Google. It will bring up a link to Baseball Almanac which lists all the players born in your birth year.

[Jim65]

I was born April 15, 1965, closest MLB players are Craig Worthington April 17, 1965 and Jeff DeWillis April 13, 1965.

Former NHL star Kevin Stevens was born the same day as me.

[commishbob]

Orioles(yeah!) pitcher Jeff Schneider and Twins/Padres utility infielder Chuck Baker were born the day after I was.

Astros/Giants 2nd baseman Rob Andrews, with whom I share a name, was born six days after me.



Edited to add...a bit of research on BR's sister sites told me that not a single player in MLB, NBA, NFL, or NFL history was born on the same day as I was. But Shoelass Joe died exactly a year before I was born.

[quinnsryche]

Jack Voigt 5/17/66 - Me 5/16/66
Hoped for a better name!
I do have the same birthdate as Billy Martin only 38 years later.

[NiceDocter]

Harry Stovey Branch Rickey Hof Gabby hartnett hof..... not bad.... but also Bonehead Fred Merkle. One guess who I’m most like.......

[cardinalcollector]

Former pitcher Mark Davis, https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...avisma01.shtml and I were born on the exact same day.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by steve B

How do you do that search?

Steve- someone already gave you one option, but that will only tell you who was born on the same Date of any year.

On BaseballResearch.Com, click on the link 'Happy Birthday/Born on this Day' - then plug your date in the search and, if nobody was born that day (the results show the year each player was born), search the day before and the day after and so on.


Kind of fun, I thought.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by NiceDocter

Harry Stovey Branch Rickey Hof Gabby hartnett hof..... not bad.... but also Bonehead Fred Merkle. One guess who I’m most like.......

No, Rocky...I mean your actual birth date AND birth year...not just the date.


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[riggs336]

Nobody on my day and year but Don Eddy was born one day before me.

[bnorth]

Same day as Bret Boone. 4/6/69 Easter Sunday.

[steve B]

Jose Roman... same day.

[nebboy]

More players died on and around my birthday

[Cliff Bowman]

MLB player Bobby Rose, who I'm not familiar with, was born one day after me. Musician Billy Corgan was born three days after me forty miles away. And in the, uh... entertainment business, Fallon was born two days before me.

[earlywynnfan]

Chris Turner born same day.

My "I guess I'm old now" moment was when the Indians got Travis Fryman. Excellent player for the Tigers, the papers were writing about how he was pretty much "Over the Hill" and "nearly done." I looked him up and he is two days younger than me. Ouch!

[judsonhamlin]

I'm halfway between Chuck Knoblauch and Derrick May. So basically a misplayed short fly to shallow left and then a bad throw to first.

[56Horsehide]

Same Month, Day and Year: Kent Tekulve

[Piman58]

Alan Fowlkes was born 4 days after me in August of 1958.
Bob Gamble died on the day I was born. He was a one game wonder in 1888 in the American Association. Pitched one game and lost, giving up 10 runs in a complete game. walking 3 while striking out 2. He also committed two errors to aid his defeat.

Amazingly he appears on an Old Judge card.

[tedzan]

Walter Johnson was born on November 6th....I was born on November 5th.





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T206 Reference
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[slidekellyslide]

Marquis Grissom was born on the same day as me. I share a birthday with Cap Anson, Alexander Cartwright, John Thorn and Graig Kreindler.

[LibSuperstar]

There were too many to name but Bruce Sutter was a notable on my birthday (1/8) in 1953.

[jiw98]

Ricky Jones from the Baltimore Orioles.

[PowderedH2O]

I was born on the same day as former pitcher Barry Manuel, and we were born less than 50 miles apart. I talked to him at a Spring Training game many years ago and I showed him my driver's license and we got a chuckle out of it.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

marquis grissom was born on the same day as me. I share a birthday with cap anson, alexander cartwright, john thorn and graig kreindler.

wow!

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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Assuming you mean exact day and not merely the date, which obviously would return tons of results, Alan Benes was the day before me. Jan 21st 1972.

[Bigdaddy]

Sandy Alomar Jr. is one day older than I am.

[todeen]

Aaron Boone, one of my favorite ball players since I was young, shares my birthday!

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[RTK]

One day early, two players Paul Assenmacher and a pitcher I don't recall ; Jeff Bettendorf - 3 games in 1984

[Chuck9788]

Was born 9/26 1974. Jeremy Giambi was born 4 days later.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Assuming you mean exact day and not merely the date, which obviously would return tons of results, Alan Benes was the day before me. Jan 21st 1972.

You got it, Scott...I meant the MLer born closest to the actual day and year you were.



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[todeen]

Originally Posted by todeen

Aaron Boone, one of my favorite ball players since I was young, shares my birthday!

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If I have to amend birth year, Jake Arrieta was born 3 days before me. However closest to my birthdate is Jeremy Hefner, whom I've never heard of, was born two days after I was. I'm going to play Price Is Right rules.

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[Exhibitman]

I share a birthday with Lou Gehrig and Ann Wilson (Heart).

[drcy]

I'm three days older than Barry Sanders

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by exhibitman

i share a birthday with lou gehrig and ann wilson (heart).

awesome!

[One 'ol Cat]

James "Buster" Douglas, onetime undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World, was born on the very same day that I was born. April 7, 1960. He upset Mike Tyson in Tokyo. Don't know if he could swing a bat though....