Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1897

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1897

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 1897 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Dave Anderson	Chester, Pennsylvania	03-22-1897	1889	1890
Kid Baldwin	Cincinnati, Ohio	07-10-1897	1884	1890
Wes Blogg	Baltimore, Maryland	03-10-1897	1883	1883
Willard Brown	San Francisco, California	12-20-1897	1887	1894
Dave Foutz	Waverly, Maryland	03-05-1897	1884	1896
John Gilroy	Norfolk, Virginia	08-04-1897	1895	1896
Milo Lockwood	Economy, Pennsylvania	10-09-1897	1884	1884
Frank McGinn	Cincinnati, Ohio	11-19-1897	1890	1890
Jim McKeever	Boston, Massachusetts	08-19-1897	1884	1884
Sam Moran	Rochester, New York	08-27-1897	1895	1895
Tricky Nichols	Bridgeport, Connecticut	08-22-1897	1876	1882
Bill Quarles	Petersburg, Virginia	03-25-1897	1891	1893
Old Hoss Radbourn	Bloomington, Illinois	02-05-1897	1880	1891
Jack Scheible	Youngstown, Ohio	08-09-1897	1893	1894
Jake Seymour	Allegheny, Pennsylvania	08-01-1897	1882	1882
Fleury Sullivan	East St. Louis, Illinois	02-08-1897	1884	1884
Joe Sullivan	Charlestown, Massachusetts	11-02-1897	1893	1896
Charles Yingling	Baltimore, Maryland	04-13-1897	1894	1894
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1897

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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