Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1912

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1912

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 1912 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Gus Alberts	Idaho Springs, Colorado	05-07-1912	1884	1891
Doc Amole	Wilmington, Delaware	03-07-1912	1897	1898
Tug Arundel	Auburn, New York	09-05-1912	1882	1888
Sam Barkley	Wheeling, West Virginia	04-20-1912	1884	1889
Josh Bunce	Brooklyn, New York	04-28-1912	1877	1877
Cupid Childs	Baltimore, Maryland	11-08-1912	1888	1901
Jim Conway	Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania	12-21-1912	1884	1889
Fred Corey	Providence, Rhode Island	11-27-1912	1878	1885
Jim Doyle	Syracuse, New York	02-01-1912	1910	1911
Pembroke Finlayson	Brooklyn, New York	03-06-1912	1908	1909
Bill Finley	Asbury Park, New Jersey	10-06-1912	1886	1886
Cherokee Fisher	New York, New York	09-26-1912	1876	1878
Henry Gehring	Kansas City, Missouri	04-18-1912	1907	1908
Jim Gilman	Cleveland, Ohio	12-21-1912	1893	1893
Ed Green	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	11-01-1912	1890	1890
Jim Green	Cleveland, Ohio	12-12-1912	1884	1884
Heinie Heitmuller	Los Angeles, California	10-08-1912	1909	1910
Harry Keener	Easton, Pennsylvania	03-05-1912	1896	1896
Ed Kenna	Grant, Florida	03-22-1912	1902	1902
Ed Kennedy	Cheyenne, Wyoming	12-22-1912	1884	1884
Jimmy Knowles	Jersey City, New Jersey	02-11-1912	1884	1892
Leonidas Lee	Hendersonville, North Carolina	06-11-1912	1877	1877
Harry Lyons	Mauricetown, New Jersey	06-30-1912	1887	1893
Lefty Marr	New Britain, Connecticut	01-11-1912	1886	1891
Frank Murphy	Central Islip, New York	11-04-1912	1901	1901
Lou Polchow	Good Thunder, Minnesota	08-15-1912	1902	1902
John Rainey	Detroit, Michigan	11-11-1912	1887	1890
Bugs Raymond	Chicago, Illinois	09-07-1912	1904	1911
John Russ	Louisville, Kentucky	01-18-1912	1882	1882
Ed Sales	New Haven, Connecticut	08-10-1912	1890	1890
John Skopec	Chicago, Illinois	10-20-1912	1901	1903
Charlie Sprague	Des Moines, Iowa	12-31-1912	1887	1890
Ace Stewart	Terre Haute, Indiana	04-17-1912	1895	1895
Ed Taylor	Dallas, Texas	01-31-1912	1903	1903
Bill Tobin	Hartford, Connecticut	10-10-1912	1880	1880
Dick Van Zant	Wayne County, Indiana	08-06-1912	1888	1888
Charlie Waitt	San Francisco, California	10-21-1912	1876	1883
Piggy Ward	Altoona, Pennsylvania	10-24-1912	1883	1894
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1912

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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