Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1926

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1926

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 1926 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Charlie Abbey	San Francisco, California	04-27-1926	1893	1897
Howard Armstrong	Canisteo, New York	03-08-1926	1911	1911
Jake Aydelott	Detroit, Michigan	10-22-1926	1884	1886
Bill Bailey	Houston, Texas	11-02-1926	1907	1922
Emil Batch	Brooklyn, New York	08-23-1926	1904	1907
Moose Baxter	Portland, Oregon	08-07-1926	1907	1907
Johnny Beall	Beltsville, Maryland	06-14-1926	1913	1918
Lou Bierbauer	Erie, Pennsylvania	01-31-1926	1886	1898
Henry Blauvelt	Portland, Oregon	12-28-1926	1890	1890
Al Burch	Brooklyn, New York	10-05-1926	1906	1911
John Cattanach	Providence, Rhode Island	11-10-1926	1884	1884
Hi Church	Jacksonville, Florida	02-23-1926	1890	1890
Otis Clymer	St. Paul, Minnesota	02-27-1926	1905	1913
George Cobb	Pomona, California	08-19-1926	1892	1892
Dick Conway	Lowell, Massachusetts	09-09-1926	1886	1888
Ed Conwell	Chicago, Illinois	05-01-1926	1911	1911
Joe Crotty	Minneapolis, Minnesota	06-22-1926	1882	1886
Tom Drohan	Kewanee, Illinois	09-17-1926	1913	1913
Ed Flanagan	Lowell, Massachusetts	11-10-1926	1887	1889
Brownie Foreman	Baltimore, Maryland	10-10-1926	1895	1896
Eddie Fusselback	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	04-14-1926	1882	1888
Alex Gardner	Danvers, Massachusetts	06-18-1926	1884	1884
Jim Gillespie	Buffalo, New York	01-24-1926	1890	1890
Sandy Griffin	Syracuse, New York	06-04-1926	1884	1893
George Haddock	Boston, Massachusetts	04-18-1926	1888	1894
Otto Hess	Tucson, Arizona	02-25-1926	1902	1915
Ed High	Baltimore, Maryland	02-10-1926	1901	1901
Bill Hutchinson	Kansas City, Missouri	03-19-1926	1884	1897
Jim Keenan	Cincinnati, Ohio	09-21-1926	1880	1891
Kick Kelly	Malba, New York	03-27-1926	1879	1879
Charlie Krehmeyer	St. Louis, Missouri	02-10-1926	1884	1885
Charlie Levis	St. Louis, Missouri	10-16-1926	1884	1885
Abel Lizotte	Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania	12-04-1926	1896	1896
Bill McCauley	Washington, D.C.	01-27-1926	1895	1895
Ed McDonough	Elgin, Illinois	09-02-1926	1909	1910
Cal McVey	San Francisco, California	08-20-1926	1876	1879
Howard Murphy	Fort Worth, Texas	10-05-1926	1909	1909
George Myers	Buffalo, New York	12-14-1926	1884	1889
Tom Needham	Steubenville, Ohio	12-14-1926	1904	1914
Frank Pearce	Louisville, Kentucky	11-13-1926	1876	1876
George Pinkney	Peoria, Illinois	11-10-1926	1884	1893
Eddie Plank	Gettysburg, Pennsylvania	02-24-1926	1901	1917
Danny Richardson	New York, New York	09-12-1926	1884	1894
Henry Schmidt	Nashville, Tennessee	04-23-1926	1903	1903
John Shaffer	Endicott, New York	11-21-1926	1886	1887
Ed Sixsmith	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	12-12-1926	1884	1884
Dave Skeels	Spokane, Washington	12-02-1926	1910	1910
Ed Springer	Los Angeles, California	04-24-1926	1889	1889
Art Sunday	Reno, Nevada	10-02-1926	1890	1890
Joe Weber	Indianapolis, Indiana	12-22-1926	1884	1884
Gil Whitehouse	Brewer, Maine	02-14-1926	1912	1915
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1926

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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