Welcome to Today In Baseball History for Thursday, August 17, 2017.

Major League baseball players who were born on this date...

• 1861 - McFarland, Chris
• 1866 - Harper, George
• 1873 - Norton, Effie
• 1874 - Keister, Bill
• 1883 - Justis, Walt
• 1888 - Molyneaux, Vince
• 1891 - Reilly, Arch
• 1891 - Powell, Jack
• 1892 - Rawlings, Johnny
• 1896 - McWeeny, Doug
• 1897 - Lennon, Ed
• 1897 - Bradshaw, Joe
• 1900 - Pence, Elmer
• 1901 - Embrey, Slim
• 1904 - Walsh, Augie
• 1905 - Watwood, Johnny
• 1906 - Walker, Hub
• 1908 - Durham, Ed
• 1910 - McLaughlin, Pat
• 1913 - York, Rudy
• 1918 - Nevel, Ernie
• 1919 - Hausmann, Clem
• 1920 - Bickford, Vern
• 1923 - Clyde, Tom
• 1923 - Markell, Duke
• 1924 - Ciaffone, Larry
• 1930 - Varner, Buck
• 1933 - Davenport, Jim
• 1936 - Buzhardt, John
• 1937 - Segui, Diego
• 1938 - Lines, Dick
• 1941 - Powell, Boog
• 1943 - Turner, Ken
• 1946 - Lockwood, Skip
• 1948 - Parsons, Bill
• 1950 - Johnson, Larry
• 1950 - Lemanczyk, Dave
• 1951 - Hobson, Butch
• 1957 - Landrum, Bill
• 1959 - Moronko, Jeff
• 1959 - Wellman, Brad
• 1963 - Fischer, Jeff
• 1965 - Cole, Alex
• 1966 - Barron, Tony
• 1967 - Mann, Kelly
• 1971 - Converse, Jim
• 1971 - Posada, Jorge
• 1972 - Abbott, Jeff
• 1972 - Ramirez, Roberto
• 1973 - Butler, Adam
• 1974 - Liefer, Jeff
• 1976 - Valera, Yohanny
• 1976 - Anderson, Matt