Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1888

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 1888

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Frank Bahret Poughkeepsie, New York 03-30-1888 1884 1884
John Bass Denver, Colorado 09-25-1888 1877 1877
Joe Brown Warren, Pennsylvania 06-28-1888 1884 1885
Ed Cogswell Fitchburg, Massachusetts 07-27-1888 1879 1882
Bill Collver Detroit, Michigan 03-24-1888 1885 1885
Amos Cross Cleveland, Ohio 07-16-1888 1885 1887
Charlie Ferguson Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 04-29-1888 1884 1887
John Glenn Sandy Hill, New York 11-10-1888 1876 1877
Denny Mack Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 04-10-1888 1876 1883
Martin Powell Fitchburg, Massachusetts 02-05-1888 1881 1885
Len Sowders Indianapolis, Indiana 11-19-1888 1886 1886
Live Oak Taylor San Francisco, California 02-19-1888 1877 1884

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1888


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