Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1917

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 1917

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Tim Murnane Boston, Massachusetts 02-07-1917 1876 1884
Charlie Gould Flushing, New York 04-09-1917 1876 1877
Whitey Ritterson Sellersville, Pennsylvania 07-28-1917 1876 1876
Pat McManus Mount Hope, New York 05-19-1917 1879 1879
Frank McLaughlin Lowell, Massachusetts 04-05-1917 1882 1884
John Schappert Brooklyn, New York 07-27-1917 1882 1882
Steve Brady Hartford, Connecticut 11-01-1917 1883 1886
John Munce Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 03-15-1917 1884 1884
Charles Fisher Eagle, Alaska 02-18-1917 1884 1884
Bill Loughran New York, New York 08-07-1917 1884 1884
Al McCauley Wayne Township, Indiana 08-24-1917 1884 1891
Charlie Geggus San Francisco, California 01-16-1917 1884 1884
Gene Derby Waterbury, Connecticut 09-13-1917 1885 1885
Pete Galligan Chicago, Illinois 05-20-1917 1886 1886
Cyclone Ryan Medfield, Massachusetts 01-30-1917 1887 1891
Parson Nicholson Bellaire, Ohio 02-28-1917 1888 1895
Joe Dowie New Orleans, Louisiana 03-04-1917 1889 1889
Jack Fanning Aberdeen, Washington 06-10-1917 1889 1894
Tom Ford Chattanooga, Tennessee 05-27-1917 1890 1890
Jack McFetridge Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 01-10-1917 1890 1903
Will Calihan Rochester, New York 12-20-1917 1890 1891
Jim Garry Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01-13-1917 1893 1893
Pat McCauley Hoboken, New Jersey 01-17-1917 1893 1903
King Bailey Macon, Georgia 11-19-1917 1895 1895
Dick Butler New York, New York 07-16-1917 1897 1899
Willie Sudhoff St. Louis, Missouri 05-25-1917 1897 1906
Cooney Snyder Toronto, Ontario, Canada 04-21-1917 1898 1898
Pete O'Brien Jersey City, New Jersey 01-31-1917 1901 1907
Jim McGuire Buffalo, New York 01-26-1917 1901 1901
Bill Clay York, Pennsylvania 10-12-1917 1902 1902
Art Weaver Denver, Colorado 03-23-1917 1902 1908
Henry Mathewson Factoryville, Pennsylvania 07-01-1917 1906 1907
Charlie Enwright Sacramento, California 01-19-1917 1909 1909
Cy Alberts Fort Wayne, Indiana 08-27-1917 1910 1910
Willie Jensen Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 03-27-1917 1912 1914

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1917


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