Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1908

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 1908

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Forrest Crawford Austin, Texas 03-27-1908 1906 1907
Doc Bushong Brooklyn, New York 08-19-1908 1876 1890
Chick Carroll Chicago, Illinois 07-13-1908 1884 1884
Marty Honan Chicago, Illinois 08-20-1908 1890 1891
Wild Bill Widner Cincinnati, Ohio 12-10-1908 1887 1891
Andy Sommers Cleveland, Ohio 07-22-1908 1887 1890
Sim Bullas Cleveland, Ohio 01-14-1908 1884 1884
Fred Ketchum Cortland, New York 03-12-1908 1899 1901
John O'Connell Derry, New Hampshire 05-14-1908 1891 1902
Bill Traffley Des Moines, Iowa 06-23-1908 1878 1886
Ned Garvin Fresno, California 06-16-1908 1896 1904
Charlie Householder Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 12-26-1908 1884 1884
Ike Van Zandt Nashua, New Hampshire 09-14-1908 1901 1905
Bill Morgan New York, New York 09-07-1908 1883 1884
Charlie Sweasy Newark, New Jersey 03-30-1908 1876 1878
Everett Mills Newark, New Jersey 06-22-1908 1876 1876
John Kelly Paterson, New Jersey 04-13-1908 1879 1884
John Brown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 07-18-1908 1897 1897
Charlie Nyce Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 05-09-1908 1895 1895
Pete Hasney Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 05-24-1908 1890 1890
George Meister Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 08-24-1908 1884 1884
Shadow Pyle Reading, Pennsylvania 12-26-1908 1884 1887
Reddy Foster Richmond, Virginia 12-19-1908 1896 1896
Henry Krug San Francisco, California 01-14-1908 1902 1902
Pat Hannivan Springfield, Massachusetts 11-05-1908 1897 1897
Mike Griffin Utica, New York 04-10-1908 1887 1898
Dickey Pearce Wareham, Massachusetts 09-18-1908 1876 1877
Frank Griffith Waterman, Illinois 12-13-1908 1892 1894
Jim Brown Williamsport, Pennsylvania 04-06-1908 1884 1886

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1908


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