If Your Birthday is May 20th...

...you share it with David Wells. While his public image has been that of a hard partying lefty, the California-born lefty was a darned good pitcher, winning 239 games over 21 seasons, highlighted by his Mothers Day 1998 perfect game with the Yankees.

Jayson Werth, the most prolific member of a three-generation baseball family, was a late bloomer. Once a top Blue Jays then Dodgers prospect, the Phillies picked him up after he missed 2006 with a serious wrist injury. He then rose to stardom on four consecutive NL East winners -- highlighted by the club's 2008 Worlds Championship. 

As for that family tree: his grandfather and uncle, both named Dick Schofield, were longtime big league infielders; while his stepfather Dennis Werth saw time in the majors with the Yankees and Royals.

Also on today's cake and candles list:

Todd Stottlemyre spent 13 seasons in the majors, winning in double digits eight times. His family is also well represented in the majors: his father Mel was the beloved Yankees ace of the mid '60s and early '70s, who enjoyed an even longer second career as a pitching coach, while his brother Mel, Jr reached the majors with the 1990 Royals and now coaches for the Marlins.

And we remember: 

Ken Boyer was as beloved as any Cardinal of the 1950s and '60s not named Stan. The Western Missouri native -- one of three brothers who played in the majors -- starred for 11 seasons on the other side of the state, and reached his peak in 1964, winning the National League MVP on the Redbirds club that beat the Yankees in a thrilling seven game World Series. He also spent a couple of seasons as Cardinals manager, working with future stars such as Keith Hernandez and Garry Templeton, but was replaced in 1980 by Whitey Herzog. Lung cancer took him at the young age of 51 in 1982; two years later, the Cardinals retired his number-14.

Hal Newhouser won 207 games in a Hall of Fame pitching career spent mostly with the Tigers. But he also deserves a small mention tied to the Yankees. Scouting for the Astros in the early 1990s, he was so impressed by a Michigan high school shortstop that he told the team, which held the first overall pick, to draft Derek Jeter and pay him whatever he wanted. They didn't -- with Jeter dropping to the sixth slot where he was drafted by and enjoyed a Hall of Fame career with the Yankees -- a move that angered Newhouser enough that the quit the next day.

Bobby Murcer came to the Yankees in the mid 1960s with huge expectations, just as the Berra-Ford-Mantle dynasty crumbled. The likeable Oklahoman, like his predecessor in center field, came to thrive in New York and was crushed when the club swapped him to the Giants for Bobby Bonds. Returning in 1979 as a backup and DH, he'll be remembered for delivering the eulogy at Thurman Munson's funeral in Ohio and then driving all five runs that evening in an emotional win over the Orioles. Murcer moved easily into the broadcast booth and spent 25 years behind a Yankee microphone (and, as noted in his memoir, worked with 31 different partners on radio and TV) until his death from brain cancer in 2008.