Major League Baseball Players Who Died in California / Played in 1884

Hall of Fame Manager Casey Stengel once quipped, "Most people my age are dead - you could look it up." The table below allows you to "look it up", as it is a comprehensive historical analysis of every major league baseball players' place of death. Selecting a state or country will bring up a sortable chart with every player in history who died in that particular area.

"Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead." - Richard Gilman in The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball (Jonathan Fraser Light, 2005)
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in California / Played in 1884

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Steve Behel Los Angeles, California 02-15-1945 1884 1886
Bob Blakiston San Francisco, California 12-25-1918 1882 1884
Bob Blakiston San Francisco, California 12-25-1918 1882 1884
John Cahill Pleasanton, California 10-31-1901 1884 1887
Hick Carpenter San Diego, California 04-18-1937 1879 1892
Fred Carroll San Rafael, California 11-07-1904 1884 1891
Mark Creegan San Francisco, California 09-29-1920 1884 1884
George Crosby San Francisco, California 01-09-1913 1884 1884
John Cullen Ukiah, California 02-11-1921 1884 1884
Mike DePangher San Francisco, California 07-07-1915 1884 1884
Al Dwight San Francisco, California 02-20-1903 1884 1884
Bones Ely Berkeley, California 01-10-1952 1884 1902
George Fisher Oakland, California 01-29-1937 1884 1884
George Fisher Oakland, California 01-29-1937 1884 1884
Charlie Geggus San Francisco, California 01-16-1917 1884 1884
Lou Hardie Oakland, California 03-05-1929 1884 1891
John Hibbard Hollywood, California 11-17-1937 1884 1884
John Humphries Salinas, California 11-29-1933 1883 1884
John Humphries Salinas, California 11-29-1933 1883 1884
Jack Jones Fresno, California 11-29-1936 1883 1884
Jim McDonald San Francisco, California 09-14-1914 1884 1885
Jim McDonald San Francisco, California 09-14-1914 1884 1885
Jim McElroy Needles, California 07-24-1889 1884 1884
Jim McElroy Needles, California 07-24-1889 1884 1884
Bid McPhee San Diego, California 01-03-1943 1882 1899
Pete Meegan San Francisco, California 03-15-1905 1884 1885
Joe Moffet San Bernardino, California 02-24-1935 1884 1884
Joe Quest San Diego, California 11-14-1924 1878 1886
Joe Quest San Diego, California 11-14-1924 1878 1886
Dave Rowe Glendale, California 12-09-1930 1877 1888
Jim Roxburgh San Francisco, California 02-21-1934 1884 1887
Taylor Shafer Glendale, California 10-27-1945 1884 1890
Taylor Shafer Glendale, California 10-27-1945 1884 1890
Taylor Shafer Glendale, California 10-27-1945 1884 1890
Ecky Stearns Glendale, California 06-28-1944 1880 1889
Len Stockwell Niles, California 01-28-1905 1879 1890
Charlie Sweeney San Francisco, California 04-04-1902 1882 1887
Charlie Sweeney San Francisco, California 04-04-1902 1882 1887
Live Oak Taylor San Francisco, California 02-19-1888 1877 1884
Milt Whitehead Highland, California 08-15-1901 1884 1884
Milt Whitehead Highland, California 08-15-1901 1884 1884

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in California / Played in 1884



If you have ever wondered what month most ballplayers passed away in, or if you enjoy reading baseball obituaries, then Baseball Almanac suggests you visit our Baseball Player Obituaries & Death by Month Chart.

Baseball Almanac is aware that researching baseball players by their place of death is common data found easily on the Internet today. We, as you are well aware, enjoy taking that extra step here and have taken that common data and added this amazing chart which will enable you to see a historical breakdown of players from any given year in history by their place of death:
 
1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895
1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925
1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965
1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975
1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Did you know that Frank Ringo was the first Major League baseball player to committ suicide? On April 12, 1889, he ingested a lethal dose of morphine, died of the drug overdose, and became the first baseball suicide in history.

     

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