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Kalamazoo, MI · 26 major leaguers played here

Sorted by career bWAR. Colleges are from the Lahman database through 2014; for later players, the school they were drafted from, per the MLB draft.

Player	At college	Major-league career	Career bWAR
Charlie Maxwell	1945	1950–1964	19.8
Stubby Overmire	1939–1941	1943–1952	8.5
Wayne Terwilliger	1946–1949	1949–1960	7.1
John Vander Wal	1985–1987	1991–2004	6.1
Adam Rosales	2002–2005	2008–2018	3.3
Ernie Koob	1914–1915	1915–1919	2.9
Dutch Dietz	1933–1936	1940–1943	2.2
Keegan Akin	drafted 2016	2020–2022	1.5
Pat Misch	2000–2003	2006–2011	0.5
Ron Jackson	1952–1954	1954–1960	0.4
Walter Anderson	1916	1917–1919	0.4
Mike Squires	1972–1973	1975–1985	0.3
Frank Secory	1933–1936	1940–1946	0.2
Matt Mieske	1987–1990	1993–2000	0.0
Ray Thomas	1930–1933	1938	0.0
Rudy Miller	1921–1924	1929	0.0
Brian Sikorski	1993–1995	2000–2006	-0.1
Jim Johnson	1965–1967	1970	-0.1
Scott Meyer	1976–1978	1978	-0.2
Johnny Bero	1943	1948–1951	-0.3
Frank Quilici	1959–1961	1965–1970	-0.5
Harvey Freeman	1920–1921	1921	-1.1
Ken Hamlin	1956–1957	1957–1966	-1.6
Jeff Kaiser	1979–1982	1985–1993	-2.2
Blake Dunn	drafted 2021	2024	—
Easton Sikorski	drafted 2022		—

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