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Worcester, MA · 65 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
Jack Barry	1906–1908	1908–1919	25.7
Bill Carrigan	1905–1906	1906–1916	13.7
Joe Dugan	1917	1917–1931	10.0
Andy Coakley	1901–1903	1902–1911	8.7
Jigger Statz	1918–1919	1919–1928	5.0
Jimmy Bannon	1893	1893–1896	4.8
Ownie Carroll	1922–1925	1925–1934	4.3
Bill Merritt	1890–1891	1891–1899	1.9
Rosy Ryan	1917–1918	1919–1933	1.2
Tom Cahill	1886–1888	1891	1.2
Blondy Ryan	1927–1930	1930–1938	1.0
Doc Gautreau	1922–1925	1925–1928	1.0
Joe Mulligan	1932–1934	1934	0.8
John Keefe	1889	1890	0.8
Pat Bourque	1968–1969	1971–1974	0.8
Ray Dobens	1926–1929	1929	0.8
Tom Leahy	1893	1897–1905	0.7
Chief Sockalexis	1895–1896	1897–1899	0.5
Doc McMahon	1907	1908	0.2
Jimmy Shevlin	1928–1930	1930–1934	0.2
Bill LeFebvre	1936–1938	1938–1944	0.1
Ed Moriarty	1933–1935	1935–1936	0.1
Gordon Massa	1954–1957	1957–1958	0.1
Bill Mills	1942–1943	1944	0.0
Bob Daughters	1935–1936	1937	0.0
Bots Nekola	1928–1929	1929–1933	0.0
Chick Bowen	1916–1919	1919	0.0
Chick Gagnon	1919–1922	1922–1924	0.0
Connie McGeehan	1902–1903	1903	0.0
Danny Mahoney	1909–1910	1911	0.0
Haddie Gill	1920–1923	1923	0.0
Hank Garrity	1929–1931	1931	0.0
Mike Hickey	1893	1899	0.0
Pete Cote	1923–1926	1926	0.0
Tom Stankard	1902–1904	1904	0.0
Andy Harrington	1909	1913	-0.1
Bob Friedrichs	1929–1931	1932	-0.1
John Freeman	1924–1926	1927	-0.1
Pete Naton	1951–1953	1953	-0.1
Skip Dowd	1907–1910	1910	-0.1
Art Kenney	1936–1938	1938	-0.2
Dennis O'Neill	1891–1892	1893	-0.2
Dick Joyce	1963–1964	1965	-0.2
Doc Curley	1894–1898	1899	-0.2
Jimmy O'Rourke	1904–1905	1908	-0.2
Gene Desautels	1928–1930	1930–1946	-0.3
Pinky Woods	1940–1941	1943–1945	-0.3
Ed Gill	1916–1919	1919	-0.4
Frank Fahey	1914	1918	-0.4
John Pappalau	1895–1896	1897	-0.4
Mike Pazik	1970–1971	1975–1977	-0.4
Ralph Carroll	1913	1916	-0.4
John Flynn	1904–1906	1910–1912	-0.5
John Stafford	1891–1893	1893	-0.6
Ed Conley	1884	1884	-0.7
Bill Fox	1895–1897	1897–1901	-1.0
Jo-Jo Morrissey	1924–1926	1932–1936	-1.0
Pete Noonan	1902–1904	1904–1907	-1.1
Al Niemiec	1931–1933	1934–1936	-1.3
Frank Shannon	1893	1892–1896	-1.4
Freddie Maguire	1919–1922	1922–1931	-2.1
Jack Hoey	1904–1906	1906–1908	-2.2
Pat Carney	1899–1901	1901–1904	-2.8
Doc Powers	1894–1896	1898–1909	-3.1
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