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Retirement and management changes, 1917
• Cincinnati Reds RF Sam Crawford retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Athletics 1B Harry Davis retired from professional baseball.
• Pittsburgh Pirates SSP Honus Wagner retired from professional baseball.
• Cleveland Guardians C Paddy Livingston retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Athletics SP Eddie Plank retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Browns SP Cy Falkenberg retired from professional baseball.
• Pittsburgh Pirates 3B Hans Lobert retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Phillies SP Ed Walsh retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Browns SP Ed Reulbach retired from professional baseball.
• Washington Senators 3B Mike Mowrey retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Cardinals CF Red Murray retired from professional baseball.
• New York Giants 3B Bobby Byrne retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Braves CF Harry Wolter retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Red Sox C Tommy Clarke retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Athletics LF Ward Miller retired from professional baseball.
• Cincinnati Reds SP Jim Scott retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Red Sox RP Elmer Knetzer retired from professional baseball.
• Chicago Cubs C Jack Meyers retired from professional baseball.
• Cincinnati Reds 2B Alex McCarthy retired from professional baseball.
• New York Giants RF Olaf Henriksen retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Braves RF Tom Long retired from professional baseball.
• Chicago Cubs 2B Paddy Baumann retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Athletics C Walt Alexander retired from professional baseball.
• Detroit Tigers LF Jimmy Walsh retired from professional baseball.
• Pittsburgh Pirates SP George Pearce retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Browns SP Frank Allen retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Braves C Jack Onslow retired from professional baseball.
• Brooklyn Robins C Earl Blackburn retired from professional baseball.
• New York Giants 1B Bunny Brief retired from professional baseball.
• Chicago White Sox 2B Bill Kenworthy retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Cardinals SP Wheezer Dell retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Red Sox SP Tom Seaton retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Browns SP Jimmy Lavender retired from professional baseball.
• New York Yankees RP Walt Johnson retired from professional baseball.
• Pittsburgh Pirates SP Rube Foster retired from professional baseball.
• Brooklyn Robins C Billy Meyer retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Braves CF Milo Allison retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Browns 3B Ray Bates retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Browns SSP Fred Smith retired from professional baseball.
• Pittsburgh Pirates RP Pop-Boy Smith retired from professional baseball.
• Brooklyn Robins RP Rube Schauer retired from professional baseball.
• Brooklyn Robins LF Larry Chappell retired from professional baseball.
• Cincinnati Reds 2B Oscar Dugey retired from professional baseball.
• Cleveland Guardians C William Fischer retired from professional baseball.
• Detroit Tigers CF Claude Cooper retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Browns CF Angel Aragon retired from professional baseball.
• Cincinnati Reds RP Paul Fittery retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Phillies C Jack Roche retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Cardinals 3B Ivan Howard retired from professional baseball.
• Brooklyn Robins C William Rumler retired from professional baseball.
• Washington Senators C Emil Huhn retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Cardinals LF Horace Milan retired from professional baseball.
• Cincinnati Reds RP Jack Nabors retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Red Sox CF Ed Fitzpatrick retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Cardinals RP Jim Park retired from professional baseball.
• New York Giants C Ray Haley retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Braves 3B Charlie Pechous retired from professional baseball.
• Cincinnati Reds RF Charlie Jackson retired from professional baseball.
• Cleveland Guardians RF Lee Gooch retired from professional baseball.
• Detroit Tigers RF Bill Johnson retired from professional baseball.
• Detroit Tigers LF Art Rico retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Cardinals RF Buck Thrasher retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Cardinals LF Jesse Altenburg retired from professional baseball.
• New York Yankees RP Al Gould retired from professional baseball.
• Washington Senators RP Rube Parnham retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Braves 1B Ziggy Hasbrook retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Phillies LF Otis Lawry retired from professional baseball.
• Cleveland Guardians SSP Bunny Fabrique retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Red Sox DH Eddie Bacon retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Phillies 2B Mike Massey retired from professional baseball.
• New York Giants SSP Otto Neu retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Red Sox 3B Eddie Palmer retired from professional baseball.
• Detroit Tigers DH Kewpie Pennington retired from professional baseball.
• Cleveland Guardians 3B Arch Reilly retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Cardinals C Jack Snyder retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Braves 3B Tony DeFate retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Phillies 1B Pete Bigler retired from professional baseball.
• New York Yankees RP Red Hill retired from professional baseball.
• Cincinnati Reds 2B Dallas Bradshaw retired from professional baseball.
• Pittsburgh Pirates 2B Paddy Driscoll retired from professional baseball.
• Brooklyn Robins CF Ralph Sharman retired from professional baseball.
• Chicago Cubs CF Morrie Schick retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Cardinals CF Howie Camp retired from professional baseball.
• Brooklyn Robins 3B Adam Debus retired from professional baseball.
• Washington Senators 3B Ferd Eunick retired from professional baseball.
• Boston Braves LF Don Flinn retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Browns SSP Ed Murray retired from professional baseball.
• Pittsburgh Pirates 1B Tom Richardson retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Phillies RP Ad Swigler retired from professional baseball.
• Washington Senators RP Red Torkelson retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Phillies RP Doc Waldbauer retired from professional baseball.
• Brooklyn Robins 1B Ray Miller retired from professional baseball.
• Philadelphia Athletics RF Pat French retired from professional baseball.
• St. Louis Browns RP George Dickerson retired from professional baseball.
• Cincinnati Reds RP Jack Enright retired from professional baseball.
• Chicago White Sox 2B Bill Leard retired from professional baseball.
• Detroit Tigers 3B Scrappy Moore retired from professional baseball.
• Brooklyn Robins 2B Bill Murray retired from professional baseball.
• Chicago Cubs RP Paul Wachtel retired from professional baseball.
• Cincinnati Reds SSP Bill Webb retired from professional baseball.
• New York Yankees 2B Harry Wolfe retired from professional baseball.
• The Cincinnati Reds retired #36 in honor of Sam Crawford.
• The Pittsburgh Pirates retired #34 in honor of Honus Wagner.
• The Philadelphia Athletics retired #65 in honor of Eddie Plank.
• The Philadelphia Phillies retired #42 in honor of Ed Walsh.
• Boston Braves general manager Mike Cotton retires.
• Chicago Cubs general manager Steve McIntyre retires.
• The New York Yankees fired manager Matt Cramer.
• The Philadelphia Phillies fired manager Charlie Sweeney.
• The New York Yankees signed manager Connie Murphy to a 3-year, $1,250 per year contract.
• The Philadelphia Phillies signed manager Adam Dawson to a 5-year, $2,950 per year contract.
• The Boston Braves signed general manager Steve Nielsen to a 3-year, $1,600 per year contract.
• The Chicago Cubs signed general manager George Keefe to a 4-year, $2,800 per year contract.
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