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State College, PA · 31 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
John Ward	1875	1878–1894	62.4
Mark Baldwin	1882	1887–1893	19.4
Birdie Cree	1905–1907	1908–1915	15.0
Russ Van Atta	1927–1928	1933–1939	2.6
David Aardsma	2001	2004–2015	2.0
Ed Klepfer	1909–1911	1911–1919	1.9
Joel Johnston	1986–1987	1991–1995	1.1
Jim Farr	1975–1978	1982	0.2
Cal Emery	1957–1958	1963	0.0
Danny Musser	1930–1931	1932	0.0
William Ford	1936	1936	0.0
Joe Tepsic	1945–1946	1946	-0.1
Pip Koehler	1921–1923	1925	-0.1
Bill Stuart	1893–1895	1895–1899	-0.2
Hinkey Haines	1921–1922	1923	-0.3
Irish McIlveen	1903–1906	1906–1909	-0.3
Charlie Atherton	1893–1895	1899	-0.7
Nate Bump	1995–1998	2003–2005	-0.7
Robert Gibson	1886	1890	-0.7
Phil Page	1925–1927	1928–1934	-0.8
Bob Coulson	1907–1908	1908–1914	-1.0
George Hesselbacher	1914–1915	1916	-1.5
Myles Thomas	1919–1921	1926–1930	-1.5
Tom Lawless	drafted 1978	1982–1990	-2.0
Bud Sharpe	1900–1903	1905–1910	-3.0
Conor Larkin	drafted 2021		—
Jay Harry	drafted 2023		—
Justin Hagenman	drafted 2018	2025	—
Matthew Wood	drafted 2022		—
Paxton Kling	drafted 2025		—
Ryan Weingartner	drafted 2025		—

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