Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1955

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1955

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 1955 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Rick Adams	Paris, Texas	03-10-1955	1905	1905
Morrie Aderholt	Sarasota, Florida	03-18-1955	1939	1945
Dick Adkins	Electra, Texas	09-12-1955	1942	1942
Harry Agganis	Cambridge, Massachusetts	06-27-1955	1954	1955
Mike Balenti	Altus, Oklahoma	08-04-1955	1911	1913
Cuke Barrows	Gorham, Maine	02-10-1955	1909	1912
Harry Barton	Upland, Pennsylvania	01-25-1955	1905	1905
Stan Baumgartner	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	10-04-1955	1914	1926
Rudy Bell	Albuquerque, New Mexico	07-28-1955	1907	1907
Curt Bernard	Culver City, California	04-10-1955	1900	1901
Monte Beville	Grand Rapids, Michigan	01-24-1955	1903	1904
Red Booles	Monroe, Louisiana	03-16-1955	1909	1909
Jake Boultes	St. Louis, Missouri	12-24-1955	1907	1909
Clint Brown	Rocky River, Ohio	12-31-1955	1928	1942
Elmer Brown	Indianapolis, Indiana	01-23-1955	1911	1915
Fred Brown	Somersworth, New Hampshire	02-03-1955	1901	1902
Ray Brown	Los Angeles, California	05-29-1955	1909	1909
Jack Bushelman	Roanoke, Virginia	10-26-1955	1909	1912
Jerry Byrne	Lansing, Michigan	08-11-1955	1929	1929
Bill Calhoun	Sandersville, Georgia	01-28-1955	1913	1913
George Caster	Lakewood, California	12-18-1955	1934	1946
Felix Chouinard	Hines, Illinois	04-28-1955	1910	1915
Shano Collins	Newton, Massachusetts	09-10-1955	1910	1925
Bob Cone	Galveston, Texas	05-24-1955	1915	1915
Hooks Cotter	Los Angeles, California	08-06-1955	1922	1924
Sam Crane	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	11-12-1955	1914	1922
Dode Criss	Sherman, Mississippi	09-08-1955	1908	1911
Rube DeGroff	Poughkeepsie, New York	12-17-1955	1905	1906
Bill Dinneen	Syracuse, New York	01-13-1955	1898	1909
Moxie Divis	Lakewood, Ohio	12-19-1955	1916	1916
Louis Drucke	Waco, Texas	09-22-1955	1909	1912
Harry Eccles	Jamestown, New York	06-02-1955	1915	1915
Babe Ellison	San Francisco, California	08-11-1955	1916	1920
Jim Fairbank	Utica, New York	12-27-1955	1903	1904
Gary Fortune	Washington, D.C.	09-23-1955	1916	1920
Howie Fox	San Antonio, Texas	10-09-1955	1944	1954
Lefty George	York, Pennsylvania	05-13-1955	1911	1918
Norm Glockson	Maywood, Illinois	08-05-1955	1914	1914
Reggie Grabowski	Syracuse, New York	04-02-1955	1932	1934
Louis Graff	Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania	04-16-1955	1890	1890
Frank Gregory	Beloit, Wisconsin	11-05-1955	1912	1912
Clark Griffith	Washington, D.C.	10-27-1955	1891	1914
Ray Hartranft	Spring City, Pennsylvania	02-10-1955	1913	1913
Frankie Hayes	Point Pleasant, New Jersey	06-22-1955	1933	1947
Ty Helfrich	Pleasantville, New Jersey	03-18-1955	1915	1915
Lafayette Henion	San Luis Obispo, California	07-22-1955	1919	1919
Art Herman	Los Angeles, California	09-20-1955	1896	1897
Ed Hovlik	Painesville, Ohio	03-19-1955	1918	1919
Jimmy Hudgens	St. Louis, Missouri	08-25-1955	1923	1926
Jim Jackson	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	10-09-1955	1901	1906
Otto Jacobs	Chicago, Illinois	11-19-1955	1918	1918
Henry Jones	Manistee, Michigan	05-31-1955	1884	1884
Ike Kamp	Boston, Massachusetts	02-25-1955	1924	1925
Jack Katoll	Woodstock, Illinois	06-18-1955	1898	1902
Mike Kelley	Minneapolis, Minnesota	06-06-1955	1899	1899
Lyman Lamb	Fayetteville, Arkansas	10-05-1955	1920	1921
Fred Lear	East Orange, New Jersey	10-13-1955	1915	1920
Tom Lynch	Cohoes, New York	03-28-1955	1884	1885
Dan McGeehan	Hazleton, Pennsylvania	07-12-1955	1911	1911
Joe McManus	Beckley, West Virginia	12-23-1955	1913	1913
John Merritt	Tupelo, Mississippi	11-03-1955	1913	1913
Horace Milan	Texarkana, Arkansas	06-29-1955	1915	1917
Mike Morrison	Erie, Pennsylvania	06-16-1955	1887	1890
Phil Morrison	Lexington, Kentucky	01-18-1955	1921	1921
Danny Murphy	Jersey City, New Jersey	11-22-1955	1900	1915
George Murray	Memphis, Tennessee	10-18-1955	1922	1933
Lynn Nelson	Kansas City, Missouri	02-15-1955	1930	1940
Peaches O'Neill	Anderson, Indiana	08-02-1955	1904	1904
Queenie O'Rourke	Sparrows Point, Maryland	12-22-1955	1908	1908
Jim Oglesby	Tulsa, Oklahoma	09-01-1955	1936	1936
John Raleigh	Escondido, California	08-24-1955	1909	1910
Newt Randall	Duluth, Minnesota	05-03-1955	1907	1907
Doc Reisling	Tulsa, Oklahoma	03-04-1955	1904	1910
Frank Roth	Burlington, Wisconsin	03-27-1955	1903	1910
Dave Rowan	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	07-30-1955	1911	1911
Hal Schwenk	Kansas City, Missouri	09-03-1955	1913	1913
Joe Shannon	Jersey City, New Jersey	07-20-1955	1915	1915
Dan Sherman	Highland Park, Michigan	09-16-1955	1914	1914
Mule Shirley	Goldsboro, North Carolina	08-03-1955	1924	1925
John Stone	Shelbyville, Tennessee	11-30-1955	1928	1938
Jesse Stovall	San Diego, California	07-12-1955	1903	1904
Allie Strobel	Hollywood, Florida	02-10-1955	1905	1906
George Stultz	Louisville, Kentucky	03-19-1955	1894	1894
Buck Sweeney	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	03-13-1955	1914	1914
Fred Tauby	Concord, California	11-23-1955	1935	1937
Harry Taylor	Buffalo, New York	07-12-1955	1890	1893
Tom Tennant	San Carlos, California	02-15-1955	1912	1912
Hank Thormahlen	Los Angeles, California	02-06-1955	1917	1925
Bill Tozer	Belmont, California	02-23-1955	1908	1908
Joe Vernon	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	03-13-1955	1912	1914
Honus Wagner	Carnegie, Pennsylvania	12-06-1955	1897	1917
Fred Walden	Jefferson Barracks, Missouri	09-27-1955	1912	1912
Curt Walker	Beeville, Texas	12-09-1955	1919	1930
Austin Walsh	Glendale, California	01-26-1955	1914	1914
Buck Washer	Akron, Ohio	12-08-1955	1905	1905
Gus Weyhing	Louisville, Kentucky	09-04-1955	1887	1901
Bob Wicker	Evanston, Illinois	01-22-1955	1901	1906
Harry Wood	Bethesda, Maryland	05-18-1955	1903	1903
Cy Young	Newcomerstown, Ohio	11-04-1955	1890	1911
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 1955

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