According to The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball "there have been 8-10 suicides per decade of current or former professional ballplayers and managers... Gunshot has been the primary method of choice, with razor number two." Other early suicides not mentioned above include:

Did you know that Ty Cobb claimed he once killed a man? Writer Al Stump described the incident in an article saying three men jumped Cobb in an alley. Cobb tried to shoot them with his gun which jammed so the men beat , cut, and left him there. Cobb chased down one of the men and in his own words wrote, "In 1912 — and you can write this down — I killed a man in Detroit. Left him there, not breathing, in his own rotten blood."

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