Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1884

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1884

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 1884 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Art Croft	St. Louis, Missouri	03-16-1884	1876	1878
Jim Egan	New Haven, Connecticut	09-26-1884	1882	1882
Pete Morris	Columbus Wisconsin	12-09-1884	1884	1884
John Morrissey	Janesville, Wisconsin	04-29-1884	1881	1881
Bill Smiley	Baltimore, Maryland	07-11-1884	1882	1882
Bill Sullivan	Holyoke, Massachusetts	11-13-1884	1878	1878
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1884

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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