Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1928

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1928

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 1928 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Charlie Becker	Washington, D.C.	07-30-1928	1911	1912
Grant Briggs	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	05-31-1928	1890	1895
Oyster Burns	Brooklyn, New York	11-11-1928	1884	1895
Bill Cooney	Roxbury, Massachusetts	11-06-1928	1909	1910
Chuck Corgan	Wagoner, Oklahoma	06-13-1928	1925	1927
Frank Cox	Hartford, Connecticut	06-24-1928	1884	1884
Con Daily	Brooklyn, New York	06-14-1928	1884	1896
Pete Daniels	Indianapolis, Indiana	02-13-1928	1890	1898
Harry DeMiller	Santa Ana, California	10-19-1928	1892	1892
Charlie Dorman	San Francisco, California	11-15-1928	1923	1923
Jack Dunn	Towson, Maryland	10-22-1928	1897	1904
Max Fiske	Chicago, Illinois	05-25-1928	1914	1914
Hunkey Hines	Rockford, Illinois	01-02-1928	1895	1895
Pete Hotaling	Cleveland, Ohio	07-02-1928	1879	1888
Nat Hudson	Chicago, Illinois	03-14-1928	1886	1889
Hughie Jennings	Scranton, Pennsylvania	02-01-1928	1891	1918
Charlie Jordan	Hazleton, Pennsylvania	06-01-1928	1896	1896
Herb Juul	Chicago, Illinois	11-14-1928	1911	1911
Jake Kafora	Chicago, Illinois	03-23-1928	1913	1914
Ed Kelly	Red Lodge, Montana	11-04-1928	1914	1914
Ed Killian	Detroit, Michigan	07-18-1928	1903	1910
Malachi Kittridge	Gary, Indiana	06-23-1928	1890	1906
Pete Lohman	Los Angeles, California	11-21-1928	1891	1891
Tom Lovett	Providence, Rhode Island	03-19-1928	1885	1894
Ike McAuley	Des Moines, Iowa	04-06-1928	1914	1925
Harry McCaffery	St. Louis, Missouri	04-19-1928	1882	1885
Bill McCarthy	Washington, D.C.	02-04-1928	1905	1907
Mart McQuaid	Chicago, Illinois	03-05-1928	1891	1898
Joe Miller	Wheeling, West Virginia	04-23-1928	1884	1885
Billy Milligan	Buffalo, New York	10-14-1928	1901	1904
Joe Mulvey	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	08-21-1928	1883	1895
Marr Phillips	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	04-01-1928	1884	1890
Jack Ridgway	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	02-23-1928	1914	1914
Claude Rossman	Poughkeepsie, New York	01-16-1928	1904	1909
Al Sauter	Ocean City, New Jersey	07-15-1928	1890	1890
Mort Scanlan	Chicago, Illinois	12-29-1928	1890	1890
Walt Schulz	Prescott, Arizona	02-27-1928	1920	1920
Urban Shocker	Denver, Colorado	09-09-1928	1916	1928
Bill Smith	New Orleans, Louisiana	05-28-1928	1886	1886
Bull Smith	Charleston, West Virginia	05-01-1928	1904	1911
Frank Smith	Canandaigua, New York	10-11-1928	1884	1884
Homer Smoot	Salisbury, Maryland	03-25-1928	1902	1906
Ed Stein	Detroit, Michigan	05-10-1928	1890	1898
Bill Stuart	Fort Worth, Texas	10-14-1928	1895	1899
Jake Thielman	Minneapolis, Minnesota	01-28-1928	1905	1908
George Treadway	Riverside, California	11-05-1928	1893	1896
Butts Wagner	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	11-26-1928	1898	1898
Jake Weimer	Chicago, Illinois	06-19-1928	1903	1909
Billy West	Richmond Hill, New York	10-27-1928	1876	1876
Bobby Wheelock	Boston, Massachusetts	03-13-1928	1887	1891
Zeke Wilson	Montgomery, Alabama	04-26-1928	1895	1899
Snake Wiltse	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	08-25-1928	1901	1903
Sam Wright	Boston, Massachusetts	05-06-1928	1876	1881
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1928

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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