Welcome to Today In Baseball History for Friday, May 9, 2008.

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

• 1854 - Borden, Joe
• 1857 - Sullivan, Dan
• 1861 - Prince, Walter
• 1866 - Krock, Gus
• 1877 - Drill, Lew
• 1879 - Applegate, Fred
• 1880 - Farmer, Alex
• 1882 - O'Brien, Buck
• 1885 - Tiemeyer, Eddie
• 1888 - Clarke, Tommy
• 1890 - Sherman, Dan
• 1891 - Carroll, Dixie
• 1892 - Devine, Mickey
• 1893 - Bolden, Bill
• 1898 - Durning, George
• 1902 - Dashiell, Wally
• 1904 - Hinson, Paul
• 1904 - Springer, Brad
• 1907 - Cihocki, Ed
• 1908 - Jurges, Billy
• 1914 - Rikard, Culley
• 1919 - Lindquist, Carl
• 1926 - Medeiros, Ray
• 1927 - Katt, Ray
• 1932 - Yewcic, Tom
• 1932 - Bartirome, Tony
• 1935 - Shipley, Joe
• 1936 - Robinson, Floyd
• 1939 - Hippauf, Herb
• 1942 - Buchek, Jerry
• 1951 - Thomas, Dan
• 1952 - Mejias, Sam
• 1953 - Jackson, Ron
• 1954 - Enright, George
• 1955 - Chism, Tom
• 1957 - Stuper, John
• 1957 - Hammond, Steve
• 1958 - Loman, Doug
• 1960 - Gwynn, Tony
• 1962 - Renfroe, Laddie
• 1968 - Sutko, Glenn
• 1969 - Wilson, Desi