Players who made their Major League debut during the selected season. Player must have appeared in a game as a hitter or a pitcher.
Batting and Pitching statistics for debuts are available since 1957.
| Buttons Briggs | 1896-04-23 | boxscore | 20.295 | P | 6-1 | 180 | R | R | 1875-07-08 | Poughkeepsie,NY | MLB | 1896-1905 | 1896-1905 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Lou Criger | 1896-09-21 | boxscore | 24.237 | C | 5-10 | 165 | R | R | 1872-02-03 | Elkhart,IN | MLB | 1896-1912 | 1896-1912 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Charlie Dexter | 1896-04-17 | boxscore | 19.311 | OF | 5-7 | 155 | R | R | 1876-06-15 | Evansville,IN | MLB | 1896-1903 | 1896-1903 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Klondike Douglass | 1896-04-23 | boxscore | 23.354 | 1B | 6-0 | 200 | L | R | 1872-05-10 | Boston,PA | MLB | 1896-1904 | 1896-1904 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Ned Garvin | 1896-07-13 | boxscore | 22.199 | P | 6-4 | 160 | R | R | 1874-01-01 | Navasota,TX | MLB | 1896-1904 | 1896-1904 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Phil Geier | 1896-08-17 | boxscore | 19.292 | OF | 5-7 | 145 | L | R | 1876-11-03 | Washington,DC | MLB | 1896-1904 | 1896-1904 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Fielder Jones | 1896-04-18 | boxscore | 24.255 | OF | 5-11 | 180 | L | R | 1871-08-13 | Shinglehouse,PA | MLB | 1896-1908 | 1896-1908 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Nap Lajoie | 1896-08-12 | boxscore | 21.347 | 2B | 6-1 | 195 | R | R | 1874-09-05 | Woonsocket,RI | MLB | 1896-1916 | 1896-1916 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Sport McAllister | 1896-08-07 | boxscore | 22.021 | SS-C | 5-11 | 180 | B | R | 1874-07-23 | Austin,MS | MLB | 1896-1903 | 1896-1903 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Herm McFarland | 1896-04-21 | boxscore | 26.048 | OF | 5-6 | 150 | L | R | 1870-03-11 | Des Moines,IA | MLB | 1896-1903 | 1896-1903 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Dan McGann | 1896-08-08 | boxscore | 25.031 | 1B | 6-0 | 190 | B | R | 1871-07-15 | Shelbyville,KY | MLB | 1896-1908 | 1896-1908 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Sam Mertes | 1896-06-30 | boxscore | 23.334 | OF | 5-10 | 185 | R | R | 1872-08-06 | San Francisco,CA | MLB | 1896-1906 | 1896-1906 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Dick Padden | 1896-07-15 | boxscore | 25.308 | 2B | 5-10 | 165 | R | R | 1870-09-17 | Wheeling,WV | MLB | 1896-1905 | 1896-1905 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Ollie Pickering | 1896-08-09 | boxscore | 26.129 | OF | 5-10 | 175 | L | R | 1870-04-09 | Olney,IL | MLB | 1896-1908 | 1896-1908 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Bill Reidy | 1896-07-21 | boxscore | 22.291 | P | 5-10 | 175 | R | R | 1873-10-09 | Cleveland,OH | MLB | 1896-1904 | 1896-1904 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Cy Seymour | 1896-04-22 | boxscore | 23.140 | OF | 6-0 | 200 | L | L | 1872-12-09 | Albany,NY | MLB | 1896-1913 | 1896-1913 | | premium | premium | premium |
| Dave Zearfoss | 1896-04-17 | boxscore | 28.114 | C | 5-9 | 0 | R | R | 1868-01-01 | Schenectady,NY | MLB | 1896-1905 | 1896-1905 | | premium | premium | premium |
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