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1902–2025
The Baseball Cube's city register counts fourteen men born in South Bend who played in the major leagues of white organized baseball. Four of them — Bejma, Thon, Counsell and Kavadas — stand at full size above, and Ted Strong stands above them all in a register of his own, the Negro leagues being major-league record now. The remaining ten stand here at the register's size. Harry Arndt, infielder, 1902–07, born February 12, 1879, opens the list in the dead-ball era. George Beck, pitcher, 1914, born February 21, 1890, is its briefest line. The modern pitching line runs Sheldon Burnside, 1978–80, born December 22, 1954; Mike Dunne, 1987–92, born October 27, 1962 — a first-round draft pick, seventh overall by St. Jim Eppard, outfielder and first baseman, 1987–90, born April 27, 1960, completes the fourteen. It is a working register, not a glittering one — one season here, a decade there — and it is printed whole because a city's record is the whole of it.
Sources
- The Baseball Cube, South Bend city register — the fourteen names, birth dates, positions and major-league years.
- Retrosheet — Mike Dunne's June 5, 1987 debut; Baseball-Reference — the schools record for Gene Fodge.