Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1939

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)
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1939

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Nick Allen Hines, Illinois 10-16-1939 1914 1920
Sweetbreads Bailey Joliet, Illinois 09-27-1939 1919 1921
Ed Biecher St. Louis, Missouri 07-15-1939 1897 1898
Dallas Bradshaw Herrin, Illinois 12-11-1939 1917 1917
George Bristow Bellingham, Washington 10-17-1939 1899 1899
Cal Broughton Evansville, Wisconsin 03-15-1939 1883 1888
Bill Burke Atchison, Kansas 03-17-1939 1887 1887
Tiny Chaplin National City, California 03-25-1939 1928 1936
Toots Coyne St. Louis, Missouri 09-18-1939 1914 1914
Joe Crisp Kansas City, Missouri 02-05-1939 1910 1911
Bill Cristall Buffalo, New York 01-28-1939 1901 1901
Murphy Currie Asheboro, North Carolina 06-18-1939 1916 1916
Fred Curtis Minneapolis, Minnesota 04-05-1939 1905 1905
Abner Dalrymple Warren, Illinois 01-25-1939 1878 1891
Jack Darragh Rochester, Pennsylvania 08-12-1939 1891 1891
Red Downs Council Bluffs, Iowa 10-19-1939 1907 1912
Sam Dungan Santa Ana, California 03-16-1939 1892 1901
Clyde Engle Boston, Massachusetts 12-26-1939 1909 1916
George Fair Roslindale, Massachusetts 02-12-1939 1876 1876
Jack Fifield Syracuse, New York 11-27-1939 1897 1899
Chauncey Fisher Los Angeles, California 04-27-1939 1893 1901
Fred Goldsmith Berkley, Michigan 03-28-1939 1879 1884
Peaches Graham Long Beach, California 07-25-1939 1902 1912
Frank Harris East Moline, Illinois 11-26-1939 1884 1884
Tom Hart Gardner, Massachusetts 09-17-1939 1891 1891
Cliff Heathcote York, Pennsylvania 01-18-1939 1918 1932
Horace Helmbold Lake Lure, North Carolina 11-18-1939 1890 1890
Pete Henning Dyer, Indiana 11-04-1939 1914 1915
John Henry Hartford, Connecticut 06-11-1939 1884 1890
Frank Killen Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 12-03-1939 1891 1900
Hal Kime Columbus, Ohio 05-16-1939 1920 1920
Frank LaPorte Newcomerstown, Ohio 09-25-1939 1905 1915
Ed Lennox Camden, New Jersey 10-26-1939 1906 1915
Fred Link Houston, Texas 05-22-1939 1910 1910
Bill McCarthy Boston, Massachusetts 05-29-1939 1906 1906
Alex McFarlan Pewee Valley, Kentucky 03-02-1939 1892 1892
Ralph Miller Ft. Wayne, Indiana 03-18-1939 1920 1924
Frank Morrissey Baltimore, Maryland 02-22-1939 1901 1902
Frank Mountain Schenectady, New York 11-19-1939 1880 1886
Simmy Murch Exeter, New Hampshire 06-06-1939 1904 1908
Dave Oldfield Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 08-28-1939 1883 1886
Pat Paige Berlin, Wisconsin 06-08-1939 1911 1911
Louis Pelouze New York, New York 01-09-1939 1886 1886
Barney Pelty Farmington, Missouri 05-24-1939 1903 1912
Jack Reis Cincinnati, Ohio 07-20-1939 1911 1911
Tom Richardson Onawa, Iowa 11-15-1939 1917 1917
Biff Schaller Emeryville, California 10-09-1939 1911 1913
Heinie Smith Buffalo, New York 06-25-1939 1897 1903
Allen Sothoron St. Louis, Missouri 06-17-1939 1914 1926
John Sowders Indianapolis, Indiana 07-29-1939 1887 1890
Scott Stratton Louisville, Kentucky 03-08-1939 1888 1895
Bert Weeden Northwood, New Hampshire 01-07-1939 1911 1911
Deacon White St. Charles Township, Illinois 07-07-1939 1876 1890
Dale Williams Covington, Kentucky 10-22-1939 1876 1876

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1939


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