MLB Players Who Attended University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania, PA — MLB Players Who Attended University of Pennsylvania
Player Name Debut Year Final Year G AB H HR AVG
Woody Wagenhorst 1888 1888 2 8 1 - 0.125
Sumner Bowman 1890 1891 25 94 25 - 0.266
Tom Cahill 1891 1891 119 430 109 3 0.253
Jack Darragh 1891 1891 1 2 1 - 0.500
Mark McGrillis 1892 1892 1 3 - - -
Andy Boswell 1895 1895 12 30 7 - 0.233
Dan Coogan 1895 1895 26 77 17 - 0.221
Billy Goeckel 1899 1899 37 141 37 - 0.262
Roy Thomas 1899 1911 1470 5296 1537 7 0.290
Ralph Caldwell 1904 1905 13 33 8 - 0.242
Frank Leary 1907 1907 2 2 - - -
Si Pauxtis 1909 1909 4 8 1 - 0.125
Steve Yerkes 1909 1916 711 2521 676 6 0.268
Toots Shultz 1911 1912 28 29 7 - 0.241
Harry Imlay 1913 1913 9 3 - - -
Pi Schwert 1914 1915 12 24 5 - 0.208
Ad Swigler 1917 1917 1 2 - - -
Walter Bernhardt 1918 1918 1 - - - -
Joe Berry 1921 1922 15 6 2 - 0.333
Bill Warwick 1921 1926 23 56 17 1 0.304
Walt Huntzinger 1923 1926 60 36 6 - 0.167
Doc Farrell 1925 1935 591 1799 467 10 0.260
Overton Tremper 1927 1928 36 91 20 - 0.220
Gene Connell 1931 1931 6 12 3 - 0.250
Walt Masters 1931 1939 8 4 - - -
Jim Peterson 1931 1937 41 29 5 - 0.172
John Jackson 1933 1933 10 21 3 - 0.143
Red Kellett 1934 1934 9 9 - - -
Bert Kuczynski 1943 1943 6 6 - - -
Jerry McCarthy 1948 1948 2 3 1 - 0.333
Grover Powell 1963 1963 20 10 2 - 0.200
Steve Adkins 1990 1990 5 - - - -
Doug Glanville 1996 2004 1115 3964 1100 59 0.277
Mark DeRosa 1998 2013 1241 3633 975 100 0.268

University of Pennsylvania in the major leagues

34 players on this page went from University of Pennsylvania to the majors. The first of them to reach the majors was Woody Wagenhorst in 1888; the most recent debut belongs to Mark DeRosa, in 1998. The games column peaks with Roy Thomas at 1470. For power, Mark DeRosa leads the list with 100 home runs. Among alumni with long careers at the plate, Roy Thomas has the best average, .290. Rows with no batting line, such as Walter Bernhardt and Steve Adkins, are players who did not bat in the majors, most of them pitchers. The 1890s were the busiest decade for debuts from University of Pennsylvania. Nearby on the site: University of Pittsburgh, University of Scranton, and Ursinus College, also in PA. Only schools where a player's college baseball is documented in the Lahman database appear here.