List of countries with their first Major League Baseball player

Background

• The list is based on players' birthplaces and each location's current country, per detailed records at Baseball-Reference.com.
• * For example, a player born in Berlin would be included with other players born in present-day Germany, even if when the player was born it might have been part of East Germany or West Germany.
• The countries listed are generally consistent with those that compete in the Olympic Games. For example, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands appear in the list.
• The players listed are not necessarily the first citizen of a country to play in a major league game, as nationality is determined under a country's nationality law and may differ.
• The list does not reflect where players grew up and learned to play baseball.
• * Some players on the list, despite their birth location, are or were Americans or Canadians who returned to their parents' home country as children and were raised there. One example is Harry Kingman, who was born in China but grew up in California.
• * Many European-born players on the list moved to North America as children. For example, the first person born in Italy to play in the major leagues, Lou Polli in 1932, moved with his family to Vermont at seven months of age.

  List

• American Association
• American League
• Federal League
• National Association
• National League
• Players' League
• Union Association