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Baseball players born in Germany

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Germany

Unique active players · 1871–2025

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First recorded appearances by decade

  1. 1870s
    4
  2. 1880s
    3
  3. 1890s
    4
  4. 1900s
    4
  5. 1910s
    7
  6. 1920s
    2
  7. 1930s
    1
  8. 1940s
    1
  9. 1970s
    1
  10. 2010s
    3
  11. 2020s
    2

Players in this selection (32)

Each player is counted once, including players who changed teams. These are recorded birthplaces, not citizenship.

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32 matching records · Unique players
Place / recordUnique playersContextExplore
Aaron Altherr1First positive recorded appearance: 2014 · Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, GermanySource record
Ben Koehler1First positive recorded appearance: 1905 · Schondorf, Bavaria, GermanySource record
Bill Kuehne1First positive recorded appearance: 1883 · Leipzig, Saxony, GermanySource record
Bill Miller1First positive recorded appearance: 1902 · Bad Schwalbach, Hesse, GermanySource record
Bill Zimmerman1First positive recorded appearance: 1915 · Kengen, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanySource record
Bob Troy1First positive recorded appearance: 1912 · Bad Wurzach, Baden-Württemberg, GermanySource record
Brendan Donovan1First positive recorded appearance: 2022 · Wurzburg, Bavaria, GermanySource record
Bruce Maxwell1First positive recorded appearance: 2016 · Wiesbaden, Hesse, GermanySource record
David Lenz1First positive recorded appearance: 1872 · GermanySource record
Dutch Schesler1First positive recorded appearance: 1931 · Frankfurt, Hesse, GermanySource record
Dutch Schliebner1First positive recorded appearance: 1923 · Berlin, Berlin, GermanySource record
Ed Eiteljorge1First positive recorded appearance: 1890 · Berlin, Berlin, GermanySource record
Ed Kippert1First positive recorded appearance: 1914 · Stetten, Bavaria, GermanySource record
Fred Gaiser1First positive recorded appearance: 1908 · Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, GermanySource record
Fritz Buelow1First positive recorded appearance: 1899 · Berlin, Berlin, GermanySource record
Fritz Mollwitz1First positive recorded appearance: 1913 · Coburg, Bavaria, GermanySource record
George Heubel1First positive recorded appearance: 1871 · GermanySource record
Gus Shallix1First positive recorded appearance: 1884 · Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanySource record
Heinz Becker1First positive recorded appearance: 1943 · Berlin, Berlin, GermanySource record
Henry Youngman1First positive recorded appearance: 1890 · Horde, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanySource record
Joe Miller1First positive recorded appearance: 1872 · GermanySource record
Marty Krug1First positive recorded appearance: 1912 · Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, GermanySource record
Marty Swandell1First positive recorded appearance: 1872 · Baden, Baden-Württemberg, GermanySource record
Max Fiske1First positive recorded appearance: 1914 · Waldau, Baden-Württemberg, GermanySource record
Max Kepler1First positive recorded appearance: 2015 · Berlin, Berlin, GermanySource record
Mickey Scott1First positive recorded appearance: 1972 · Weimar, Thuringia, GermanySource record
Otto Deininger1First positive recorded appearance: 1902 · Wasseralfingen, Baden-Württemberg, GermanySource record
Phoenix Sanders1First positive recorded appearance: 2022 · Augsburg, Bavaria, GermanySource record
Pretzels Getzien1First positive recorded appearance: 1884 · GermanySource record
Reggie Richter1First positive recorded appearance: 1911 · Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanySource record
Skel Roach1First positive recorded appearance: 1899 · Danzig, Pomerania, GermanySource record
Tony Welzer1First positive recorded appearance: 1926 · GermanySource record

SOURCES & DEFINITIONS

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Source: SABR / Sean Lahman Baseball Database, credited to Sean Lahman and the database contributors (CC BY-SA 3.0). The archived release covers 1871–2025, including the recognized major leagues and supported Negro League records in its 19 league codes. Earlier and Negro League records have documented gaps; a missing record is not proof that a player or team did not exist. No other professional leagues have been inferred.

24,011 unique players have positive recorded game appearances. Debut cohorts use the first positive appearance year in this database; active cohorts count a player once if any positive appearance falls inside the range. Team changes never multiply that player. Birthplaces describe source birth location, not citizenship. Historical birth countries retain their source identity. 23,078 players have a birth-country entry; unknowns stay visible.

HomeGames determines season-specific venues, with the most recorded home games identifying the primary park. Franchise names and locations follow each historical team season. World Series titles are joined to the winning team’s primary home city that season, including the source’s historical and Negro League World Series records. They are never reassigned to a franchise’s present city.

339 of 345 parks have city-level coordinates. These locate cities, not exact stadium sites. U.S. place coordinates come from the Census 2025 Gazetteer (public domain); international locations use unique GeoNames city matches (CC BY 4.0, attribution GeoNames). Ambiguous matches remain unlocated. City profiles require at least five source players and a reviewed city match; smaller or unlocated groups open the filtered origins atlas.

World outlines: Natural Earth 1:50m map units, public domain. U.S. state outlines: Census via us-atlas. Source licenses apply to their respective inputs and derived data. Download the derived baseball snapshot · Source manifest, retrieval dates and SHA-256 hashes.

Archived inputs and attribution (10)
  • lahman-readme2025.txt · SABR / Sean Lahman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 47,982 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 8f3d8f12b638887e4d182561a668e8103e11fbe1483019cae6d12a4c67cc3aab
  • lahman-People.csv · SABR / Sean Lahman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 3,223,128 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 9ee97110fc88b2c4ad72684577d696875035049e74a45cb93238458df8563c58
  • lahman-Parks.csv · SABR / Sean Lahman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 22,638 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 788dfee98c41e80d95e7bbbe1a90a8be2aa6d958701433ab896f9747384f992b
  • lahman-Teams.csv · SABR / Sean Lahman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 701,384 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 0e7afdd8b837d0edaca770a28817eec6613bd8255979c1be6e3f5827f4b88fd6
  • lahman-Appearances.csv · SABR / Sean Lahman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 7,833,413 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 4aa1883276a86b9b8ceaa08b3d030044d187766fb758fc973ec12d3a24f6fe08
  • lahman-HomeGames.csv · SABR / Sean Lahman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 178,043 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 40b73165b9b38c55ccedab05841982ec8eaa5316b61a79adab3ff5ae13d264c3
  • lahman-TeamsFranchises.csv · SABR / Sean Lahman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 5,610 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: fc58735a8f767f11c27bccbbee38ea850a00e27c0216fb2a60cc4185a99bf398
  • lahman-SeriesPost.csv · SABR / Sean Lahman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 13,628 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 507918cbb9dea12fd353b2a68a36e6ad481f8bcd58e51698cf3889b78d52254a
  • census-places-2025.zip · U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Census federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 1,214,053 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 49644173a453469d9bd77fb7a493b027f87567e209edaf2078aac7543ac2ee29
  • geonames-cities1000.zip · GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 11,053,713 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: bd324b6b115b55f6ac5294c7fab0e9b73af7b2ca085436344a2834bf1d4300fe