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48 Major League Baseball Players have been born in Ireland, from Andy Leonard, who left County Cavan as a baby during the famine, and was on the first professional Baseball team – the Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 – to PJ Conlon, from Belfast, who became the first Major League Baseball player born in Ireland since 1945 when he pitched for the New York Mets in 2018.   A number of these players have Irish Baseball League Awards named after them.

Batting Records of Irish Born MLB Players

Player	Years	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BA
Jimmy Archer	1904-18	847	2646	247	660	16	299	.249
Tommy Bond	1874-84	488	1975	213	471	0	174	.238
Hugh Campbell	1873	20	86	9	13	0	7	.151
Michael Campbell	1873	21	84	9	12	0	2	.143
Joe Cleary	1945	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Collins	1887-91	5	12	0	2	0	1	.167
PJ Conlon	2018	1	2	1	1	0	0	.500
John Curran	1876	3	12	5	4	0	2	.333
Andy Cusick	1884-87	95	332	27	64	0	15	.193
Hugh Daily	1882-87	167	562	53	88	0	17	.157
Pete Daniels	1890-98	14	29	2	7	0	3	.241
Patsy Donovan	1890-1907	1824	7505	1321	2256	16	738	.301
Tom Dowse	1890-92	160	590	62	116	0	46	.197
Conny Doyle	1883-84	31	126	11	32	0	3	.254
Jack Doyle	1889-1905	1569	6055	977	1811	25	971	.299
Ed Duffy	1871	26	121	30	28	0	15	.231
Bill Farmer	1888	5	16	0	2	0	1	.125
Jocko Fields	1887-92	341	1319	212	358	12	176	.271
Mike Flynn	1891	1	2	0	0	0	0	.000
Curry Foley	1879-83	305	1305	192	373	6	128	.286
Hugh Gilgan	1875	2	8	2	2	0	0	.250
Jimmy Hallinan	1871-78	170	760	142	218	5	83	.287
Mike Hines	1883-88	120	451	69	91	0	26	.202
Andy Leonard	1871-80	501	2394	481	715	4	343	.299
Con Lucid	1893-97	54	151	29	36	0	17	.238
Reddy Mack	1885-90	550	2062	381	524	6	262	.254
Fergy Malone	1871-84	220	1052	200	288	1	157	.274
Charlie McCullough	1890	29	95	3	3	0	1	.032
John McGuinness	1876-84	66	275	32	67	0	4	.244
Barney McLaughlin	1884-90	178	696	84	169	3	66	.243
Frank McLaughlin	1882-84	107	426	60	97	5	4	.228
Pat McManus	1879	2	8	0	1	0	0	.125
Mike Muldoon	1882-86	495	1932	254	450	10	187	.233
Tony Mullane	1881-94	784	2720	407	661	8	223	.243
Tom Needham	1904-14	523	1491	113	311	8	119	.209
Sam Nicholl	1888-90	22	78	10	10	0	4	.128
John O’Connell	1891-1902	16	51	3	9	0	7	.176
Johnny O’Connor	1916	1	0	0	0	0	0
Paddy O’Connor	1908-18	108	267	17	60	0	21	.225
Patrick O’Loughlin	1883	1	5	0	2	0	0	.400
Jack O’Neill	1902-06	303	945	74	185	1	74	.196
Mike O’ Neill	1901-07	137	380	50	97	2	41	.255
Cyclone Ryan	1887-91	9	33	4	7	0	3	.212
Bill Sullivan	1878	2	6	1	1	0	0	.167
Sleeper Sullivan	1881-84	96	342	39	63	0	15	.184
Ted Sullivan	1884	3	9	0	3	0	0	.333
John Tener	1885-90	73	263	29	62	3	25	.236
Jimmy Walsh	1912-17	541	1771	235	410	6	150	.232

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Pitching Records of Irish Born MLB Players

Player	Years	W	L	Pct	ERA	G	H	R	HR
Tommy Bond	1874-84	234	163	.589	2.14	417	3765	1931	50
Hugh Campbell	1873	2	16	.111	2.95	19	251	213	6
Joe Cleary	1945	0	0		189.0	1	5	7	0
PJ Conlon	2018	0	0		7.36	1	4	3	1
Hugh Daily	1882-87	73	87	.456	2.92	165	1394	866	31
Pete Daniels	1890-98	2	8	.200	4.79	14	102	70	1
Tom Dowse	1890-92	0	0		5.40	1	6	3	0
Jocko Fields	1887-92	0	0		0.00	1	0	3	0
Curry Foley	1879-83	27	27	.500	3.54	69	511	311	3
Con Lucid	1893	23	23	.500	6.02	54	482	340	15
Charlie McCullough	1890	5	23	.179	4.88	29	276	199	6
Barney McLaughlin	1884-90	1	3	.250	5.36	7	62	44	2
Frank McLaughlin	1882-84	0	0		9.00	4	29	33	0
Pat McManus	1879	0	2	.000	3.00	2	24	21	1
Tony Mullane	1881-94	284	220	.563	3.05	555	4195	2523	1
Mike O’Neill	1901-07	32	44	.421	2.73	85	739	358	8
Cyclone Ryan	1887-91	0	1	.000	10.13	3	7	9	1
John Tener	1885-90	25	31	.446	4.30	61	552	398	28

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Websites

 
[1] Logo Stage (2016) Major League Baseball Logo [Internet] Available from: http://www.logostage.com/logos/Major_League_Baseball.png [Accessed 16 November 2016]

[2] Baseball Reference (2016) 47 Irish Born Major League Baseball Players [Internet] Available from: www.baseball-reference.com/bio/Ireland_born.shtml [Accessed 16 November 2016]

[3] Baseball Reference (2018) P.J. Conlon [Internet] Available from: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=conlon000pj- [Accessed 22 May 2018]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Hugh Mulcahy and Tom Gallagher.

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