If Your Birthday is June 9th...

 ...you share it with Yuli Gurriel.  The 2021 American League batting champ played on pair of Astros World Series winners before joining the Miami Marlins this season.  The Cuban expat and his younger brother Lourdes share a unique baseball first: on September 21st, 2018 they became the first siblings in MLB history with multi-homer performances on the same day. 

Also on today's birthday list:

Tony Wolters, who caught for parts of seven big league seasons, primarily with the Rockies.  His standout moment was driving in Colorado's winning run in the 2018 Wild Card game against the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

Dave Parker joined the Pirates the season after Roberto Clemente's death and manned right field at Three Rivers Stadium for the rest of the '70s.  The 1978 NL MVP and three-time Gold Glove winner, he made seven all star teams during his 19 year career, which later brought him to Oakland where "The Cobra" won his only ring as the DH on the A's 1989 champs.

And we remember:

Bill Virdon, the defense-first center fielder who spent a decade with the Pirates.  His ground ball that bounced up and hit Tony Kubek in the throat was a pivotal play in Pittsburgh's stunning game seven win to take the 1960 World Series.  The Missouri product later coached with and managed the Pirates before replacing Ralph Houk with the Yankees and leading the Astros to the 1980 NL West title.

Looking ahead to Saturday the 10th:

Jared Solomon, a Reds pitching prospect who lost all of 2020 when COVID shut down the minor leagues, then missed 2021 due to Tommy John surgery.  After struggling in nine games last season for Cincinnati, he's back with their Triple-A team in Louisville this year.

And rounding out our 6/10 birthday crew:

Al Alburquerque, the (nearly) geographically named reliever best known for his five years with the Tigers.  

   

Pokey Reese, the infielder whose eight big league seasons were split between the Reds, Pirates and Red Sox -- where he finished his career in 2004 as a backup on the club that ended "the curse."

Rick Camp pitched nine years for the Braves, but is most remembered for one game: on July 4th, 1985, the weak-hitting hurler had to hit in the 11th inning because the Braves had no position players left -- and stunned the crowd (and a nationwide TV audience on TBS) with a home run off Mets reliever to re-tie the game at 11–11. The Mets grabbed a 16-11 lead (off him) in the top of the 18th and Ron Darling retired him for the final out of a game that, due to an early rain delay, last until 3:55 in the morning -- and was followed by previously scheduled fireworks!

"The other" Randy Johnson, a light hitting backup infielder with the 1980s Braves.

Johnny Edwards was born in Columbus, Ohio and caught for 14 years in the majors. He broke in with his home state's Cincinnati Reds, beginning with their 1961 pennant-winners, a run that ended when the Reds promoted his successor, the future Hall of Famer Johnny Bench.

Ken Singleton, the New York native who broke in with his hometown Mets, but began to thrive in Montreal, after being part of the Rusty Staub trade just before the 1972 season. Three years later, the switch hitter moved onto Baltimore, where over the next decade, he was a big part of pennant winning teams in 1979 and '83. Following a 15-season playing career, he spent 36 years as a broadcaster, calling games for the Blue Jays, Expos, and from 1997-2021, the Yankees. 

Of the 56 players who've appeared in the majors that were born June 10th,  Singleton, a lifetime .282 hitter with 246 homers, is clearly the best of the bunch.