Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1898

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)
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1898

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Bill Hague Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 11-21-1898 1876 1879
John Richmond Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10-05-1898 1876 1885
Bobby Mathews Baltimore, Maryland 04-17-1898 1876 1887
Harry Smith Queensville, Indiana 06-04-1898 1877 1889
Curry Foley Boston, Massachusetts 10-20-1898 1879 1883
Bill Tierney Boston, Massachusetts 09-21-1898 1882 1884
John Sneed Jackson, Tennessee 12-27-1898 1884 1891
Tony Hellman Cincinnati, Ohio 03-29-1898 1886 1886
Mother Watson Middleport, Ohio 11-23-1898 1887 1887
Henry Meyers Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 06-28-1898 1890 1890
Charlie McCullough Brooklyn, New York 04-13-1898 1890 1890
Tom Power San Francisco, California 02-25-1898 1890 1890
Martin Duke Minneapolis, Minnesota 12-31-1898 1891 1891
Jiggs Parrott Phoenix, Arizona 04-14-1898 1892 1895

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1898


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