Princeton University, NJ
Princeton, NJ
26 MLB Alumni
MLB Players Who Attended Princeton University
| Player Name | Debut Year | Final Year | G | AB | H | HR | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leonidas Lee | 1877 | 1877 | 4 | 18 | 5 | - | 0.278 |
| Dan Bickham | 1886 | 1886 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 0.333 |
| Woody Wagenhorst | 1888 | 1888 | 2 | 8 | 1 | - | 0.125 |
| Homer Hillebrand | 1905 | 1908 | 47 | 131 | 31 | - | 0.237 |
| Dutch Meier | 1906 | 1906 | 82 | 273 | 70 | - | 0.256 |
| Bobby Vaughn | 1909 | 1915 | 149 | 535 | 148 | - | 0.277 |
| Fred Winchell | 1909 | 1909 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | 0.200 |
| Roger Salmon | 1912 | 1912 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Charles Sterrett | 1912 | 1913 | 87 | 265 | 67 | 1 | 0.253 |
| Steve White | 1912 | 1912 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - |
| King Lear | 1914 | 1915 | 57 | 63 | 11 | - | 0.175 |
| Ted Reed | 1915 | 1915 | 20 | 77 | 20 | - | 0.260 |
| Duke Kelleher | 1916 | 1916 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Waddy MacPhee | 1922 | 1922 | 2 | 7 | 2 | - | 0.286 |
| Tom McNamara | 1922 | 1922 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Moe Berg | 1923 | 1939 | 663 | 1813 | 441 | 6 | 0.243 |
| Charlie Caldwell | 1925 | 1925 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Larry Crawford | 1937 | 1937 | 6 | - | - | - | - |
| Roy Talcott | 1943 | 1943 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| John Easton | 1955 | 1959 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Dave Sisler | 1956 | 1962 | 247 | 159 | 25 | - | 0.157 |
| Bob Tufts | 1981 | 1983 | 27 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Chris Young | 2004 | 2017 | 271 | 207 | 31 | 1 | 0.150 |
| Ross Ohlendorf | 2007 | 2016 | 209 | 137 | 10 | 1 | 0.073 |
| Will Venable | 2008 | 2016 | 967 | 2836 | 707 | 81 | 0.249 |
| David Hale | 2013 | 2021 | 118 | 44 | 3 | - | 0.068 |
Princeton University in the major leagues
The table lists 26 major league players who played college baseball at Princeton University, in Princeton, NJ. The first of them to reach the majors was Leonidas Lee in 1877; the most recent debut belongs to David Hale, in 2013. Will Venable played the most games of any alumnus, 967. Among alumni with long careers at the plate, Will Venable has the best average, .249. Rows with no batting line, such as Duke Kelleher, Larry Crawford, and Roy Talcott, are players who did not bat in the majors, most of them pitchers. More of the school's major leaguers debuted in the 1910s than in any other decade. Nearby on the site: Ramapo College, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and Rider University, also in NJ. Only schools where a player's college baseball is documented in the Lahman database appear here.