Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1901

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 1901

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Tom O'Brien Phoenix, Arizona 02-03-1901 1897 1900
Dennis Driscoll Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02-21-1901 1885 1885
Tom Kinslow Washington, D.C. 02-22-1901 1886 1898
Charles Snyder Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 03-03-1901 1890 1890
Alexander Skinner Washington, Massachusetts 03-05-1901 1884 1884
Mike Trost Camden, New Jersey 03-24-1901 1890 1895
John Hiland Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 04-10-1901 1885 1885
Pat Sullivan Milwaukee, Wisconsin 04-14-1901 1884 1884
Dude Esterbrook Middletown, New York 04-30-1901 1880 1891
Bill Craver Troy, New York 06-17-1901 1876 1877
Dave McKeough Utica, New York 07-11-1901 1890 1891
Milt Whitehead Highland, California 08-15-1901 1884 1884
Gene Bagley Long Island City, New York 08-15-1901 1886 1886
Pete Sweeney San Francisco, California 08-22-1901 1888 1890
Doc McJames Charleston, South Carolina 09-23-1901 1895 1901
Chappy Lane Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10-09-1901 1882 1884
Jim Duncan Foxburg, Pennsylvania 10-16-1901 1899 1899
John Cahill Pleasanton, California 10-31-1901 1884 1887
John Corcoran Cincinnati, Ohio 11-02-1901 1895 1895
Tub Welch St. Louis, Missouri 11-07-1901 1890 1895
Jim Sullivan Roxbury, Massachusetts 11-29-1901 1891 1897
George Flynn Chicago, Illinois 12-28-1901 1896 1896

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1901



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