Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1909

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1909

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 1909 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
George Barclay	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	04-03-1909	1902	1905
Jim Burns	Chicago, Illinois	02-17-1909	1888	1891
Charlie Cady	Chicago, Illinois	06-07-1909	1883	1884
Dennis Casey	Binghamton, New York	01-19-1909	1884	1885
John Clarkson	Belmont, Massachusetts	02-04-1909	1882	1894
George Decker	Patton, California	06-07-1909	1892	1899
Mike Dorgan	Hartford, Connecticut	04-26-1909	1877	1890
Harry Gilbert	Pottstown, Pennsylvania	12-23-1909	1890	1890
John Hatfield	Long Island City, New York	02-20-1909	1876	1876
Bill Hogg	New Orleans, Louisiana	12-08-1909	1905	1908
Rudy Kemmler	Chicago, Illinois	06-20-1909	1879	1889
Walt Kinzie	Washington, D.C.	11-05-1909	1882	1884
Harry Lochhead	Stockton, California	08-22-1909	1899	1901
Herman Long	Denver, Colorado	09-17-1909	1889	1904
John Lyston	Baltimore, Maryland	10-29-1909	1891	1894
Doggie Miller	Brooklyn, New York	04-06-1909	1884	1896
Togie Pittinger	Greencastle, Pennsylvania	01-14-1909	1900	1907
Bill Popp	St. Louis, Missouri	09-05-1909	1902	1902
Doc Powers	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	04-26-1909	1898	1909
Paddy Quinn	Chicago, Illinois	01-02-1909	1877	1877
Jimmy Sebring	Williamsport, Pennsylvania	12-22-1909	1902	1909
Frank Siffell	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	10-26-1909	1884	1885
Oscar Westerberg	Alameda, California	04-17-1909	1907	1907
Joe Wright	Omaha, Nebraska	09-20-1909	1895	1896
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1909

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