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This category is for English baseball players who currently play or have played in Major League Baseball. Pages in category "Major League Baseball players from England" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
As such, player representation by birth spans to 25 countries as of the 2022 MLB season, with the United States topping the list at 1,057 players called up to 26-man rosters. [9] The most represented overseas country is the Dominican Republic, with 171 players called up to 26-man rosters. [9]
This category includes baseball players born in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, who have played professional baseball in Major League Baseball.
Baseball in the United Kingdom Country United Kingdom Governing body British Baseball Federation National team(s) Men's national team Women's national team First played 1862 National competitions British Baseball Federation National League, AAA, AA and A divisions Baseball is a growing minor sport in the United Kingdom, with an estimated 22,500 people playing in 2020. The sport is governed by ...
England is one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom. [ 125 ] [ 126 ] [ 127 ] It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe .
This list consists of players who have appeared in Major League Baseball. Note that the list also includes players who appeared in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which is not universally considered a major league. The list is broken down into a page of each letter to reduce the size.
National Association players are included in the major league records of sites such as Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet, thus are also included here. The European countries highlighted in blue have had a least one player born there play in a major league game, through the 2019 season.
After their major-league debuts, many of these players appeared in professional leagues other than MLB. Included are multiple "bonus babies", who joined major-league rosters from 1947 to 1957 and from 1962 to 1965 under the bonus rule, which obligated major-league teams to keep players awarded large signing bonuses on