Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1885

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1885

While looking up at an Old Timers’ Day scoreboard which was listing deceased Yankee greats, Hall of Fame Catcher Yogi Berra once quipped, "Boy, I hope I never see my name up there." The table below allows you to "check the scoreboard" in a year by year format. Simply select a year and up comes a list of every Major League player in history who died during any given year.

"If anybody talks about a dead guy during a broadcast, I'll sack 'em. I'm sick of dead guys. Whenever I turn on baseball, all I hear about is dead guys. If I hear a name, I'm going to ask: 'Is he dead?' And if he is, you're fired." - Fox Sports President David Hill in The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball (Jonathan Fraser Light, 2005)

Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1885 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Nealy Phelps	New York, New York	02-12-1885	1876	1876
Herman Dehlman	Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania	03-13-1885	1876	1877
Al Hall	Warren, Pennsylvania	02-10-1885	1879	1880
Dick Cramer	Camden, New Jersey	08-11-1885	1883	1883
Dan Cronin	Boston, Massachusetts	11-30-1885	1884	1884
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1885

Who was the first Major League player to commit suicide? Which baseball suicide occurred in an Asylum? Which one took place inside a police station? Find out by reading through our list of baseball suicides.

Did you know that the fewest number of baseball deaths occurred during the month of June? For a comprehensive chart check out our Baseball Player Obituaries & Death by Month Chart.

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