Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1931

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1931

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 1931 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Jack Bellman	Louisville, Kentucky	12-08-1931	1889	1889
George Bradley	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	10-02-1931	1876	1888
Sam Brown	Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania	11-08-1931	1906	1907
Jack Burdock	Brooklyn, New York	11-27-1931	1876	1891
Jack Chesbro	Conway, Massachusetts	11-06-1931	1899	1909
Charlie Comiskey	Eagle River, Wisconsin	10-26-1931	1882	1894
Roger Connor	Waterbury, Connecticut	01-04-1931	1880	1897
Tex Covington	Denison, Texas	12-10-1931	1911	1912
Clarence Cross	Seattle, Washington	06-23-1931	1884	1887
George Daisy	Cumberland, Maryland	04-27-1931	1884	1884
Babe Danzig	San Francisco, California	07-14-1931	1909	1909
Pop Dillon	Pasadena, California	09-12-1931	1899	1904
Alexander Donoghue	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	07-11-1931	1891	1891
Lee Dressen	Diller, Nebraska	06-30-1931	1914	1918
Bob Edmundson	Lawrence, Kansas	08-14-1931	1906	1908
Ben Ellis	Schenechtady, New York	07-26-1931	1896	1896
Charlie Ferguson	Sault Saint Marie, Michigan	05-17-1931	1901	1901
Ed Ford	Richmond, Virginia	06-08-1931	1884	1884
Chris Fulmer	Tamaqua, Pennsylvania	11-09-1931	1884	1889
Joe Gannon	St. Louis, Missouri	03-19-1931	1898	1898
Tinsley Ginn	Atlanta, Georgia	08-30-1931	1914	1914
Oscar Graham	Moline, Illinois	10-15-1931	1907	1907
Tom Gunning	Fall River, Massachusetts	03-17-1931	1884	1889
Charlie Hamburg	Union, New Jersey	05-18-1931	1890	1890
George Harper	Stockton, California	12-11-1931	1894	1896
Joe Hornung	Howard Beach, New York	10-30-1931	1879	1890
Mickey Hughes	Jersey City, New Jersey	04-10-1931	1888	1890
Billy Kinloch	New York, New York	02-15-1931	1895	1895
John Kirby	St. Louis, Missouri	10-06-1931	1884	1888
Fred Lake	Boston, Massachusetts	11-24-1931	1891	1910
Pete Lamer	Brooklyn, New York	10-24-1931	1902	1907
Con Lucid	Houston, Texas	06-25-1931	1893	1897
Joe Marshall	Santa Monica, California	09-11-1931	1903	1906
C.V. Matteson	Seville, Ohio	12-18-1931	1884	1884
Mike Mattimore	Butte, Montana	04-28-1931	1887	1890
Jimmy McAleer	Youngstown, Ohio	04-29-1931	1889	1907
Jack McCarthy	San Francisco, California	09-11-1931	1893	1907
Frank Meinke	Chicago, Illinois	11-08-1931	1884	1885
Bob Miller	Newark, New Jersey	05-23-1931	1890	1891
Doc Newton	Memphis, Tennessee	05-14-1931	1900	1909
Al Niehaus	Cincinnati, Ohio	10-14-1931	1925	1925
George Noftsker	Shippensburg, Pennsylvania	05-08-1931	1884	1884
Bill O'Hara	Jersey City, New Jersey	06-15-1931	1909	1910
Bill Otey	Dayton, Ohio	04-22-1931	1907	1911
Dick Phelan	San Antonio, Texas	02-13-1931	1884	1885
Hardy Richardson	Utica, New York	01-14-1931	1879	1892
John Riddle	Camden, New Jersey	05-05-1931	1889	1890
Al Schulz	Gallipolis, Ohio	12-13-1931	1912	1916
Carl Sitton	Valdosta, Georgia	09-11-1931	1909	1909
Andy Sommerville	Jamaica, New York	06-16-1931	1894	1894
Jim Tyng	New York, New York	10-30-1931	1879	1888
Bucky Veil	Altoona, Pennsylvania	04-16-1931	1903	1904
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1931

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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