Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1908

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)

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

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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