Talk:List of second-generation Major League Baseball players

Complete list
A complete list of second-generation baseball players is available on Baseball Almanac:

[| (A-L)] [| (M-Z)]

151.205.235.167 17:19, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Worth mentioning?
While perusing the list and the opening section I wondered if these two facts were worthy of inclusion:


 * Chris Duncan & Dave Duncan (father & son) both won a World Series ring the same year -- 2006 -- with the St. Louis Cardinals. Not sure if that ever happened before.


 * Scott Spezio and his dad both won World Series rings with the Cardinals, although decades apart. Have any father-son combo ever both won W.S. rings with the same franchise? (other than the Duncans noted above)

I'll leave it up to others to decide whether these need adding or not. Sector001 (talk) 16:30, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Issue with the Ripkens
Given that Cal Ripken, Sr. did not play in any Major League Baseball games, I challenge the inclusion of the Ripkens on the list of second-generation MLB players. I think that either they need to be removed or the page needs to be renamed to something more accurate to reflect their inclusion. 67.181.76.194 (talk) 04:33, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Yogi and Dale Berra
Yogi managed son Dale for the first 16 games of the 1985 season for the NY Yankees (see Wikipedia article on Dale Berra)

What about skipping a generation
Mike Yastrzemski has a notable grandfather. I am wondering if this page should document generation skipping legacies.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:32, 27 June 2019 (UTC)


 * The Yastrzemski family should certainly be documented, and I support adding Carl, Sr., and Mike as a flagged entry in the main List of Players. The page title says “second generation”, but including of later-generation Boones and Bells, etc., shows it isn’t meant restrictively. Carl Yastrzemski’s line is close to being a three-generation MLB family, with Mike's father rising to Triple-A in the White Sox organization. Clearly, baseball talent didn’t skip a generation. Mike would have to be flagged both as active and as the grandson. Alternatively, the column title “Father” be changed to something like “Forebear” but that seems like overkill.

--Jownh Hite (talk) 16:18, 17 September 2019 (UTC)


 * One simple solution would be to make a separate table of grandfather-grandson pairs. Timothy Horrigan (talk) 14:57, 20 October 2020 (UTC)