Major League Baseball Players Who Died in California / Played in 1905

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 1905

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Fred Abbott Los Angeles, California 06-11-1935 1903 1905
Shad Barry Los Angeles, California 11-27-1936 1899 1908
Shad Barry Los Angeles, California 11-27-1936 1899 1908
Bill Bernhard San Diego, California 03-30-1949 1899 1907
Cliff Blankenship Oakland, California 04-26-1956 1905 1909
Dave Brain Los Angeles, California 05-25-1959 1901 1908
Dave Brain Los Angeles, California 05-25-1959 1901 1908
Fred Carisch San Gabriel, California 04-19-1977 1903 1923
Harry Cassady Fresno, California 04-19-1969 1904 1905
Frank Chance Los Angeles, California 09-15-1924 1898 1914
Hal Chase Colusa, California 05-18-1947 1905 1919
Charlie Chech Los Angeles, California 01-31-1938 1905 1909
Josh Clarke Ventura, California 07-02-1962 1898 1911
Sam Crawford Hollywood, California 06-15-1968 1899 1917
Mike Donlin Hollywood, California 09-24-1933 1899 1914
Cy Falkenberg San Francisco, California 04-14-1961 1903 1917
John Halla El Segundo, California 09-30-1947 1905 1905
Homer Hillebrand Elsinore, California 01-20-1974 1905 1908
John Knight Walnut Creek, California 12-19-1965 1905 1913
Johnny Lush Beverly Hills, California 11-18-1946 1904 1910
Jack McCarthy San Francisco, California 09-11-1931 1893 1907
Sam Mertes Villa Grande, California 03-12-1945 1896 1906
Orval Overall Fresno, California 07-14-1947 1905 1913
Fred Raymer Los Angeles, California 06-11-1957 1901 1905
Bob Rhoads San Bernardino, California 02-12-1967 1902 1909
Ike Rockenfield San Diego, California 02-21-1927 1905 1906
Wildfire Schulte Oakland, California 10-02-1949 1904 1918
Tubby Spencer San Francisco, California 02-01-1945 1905 1918
Jake Stahl Monrovia, California 09-18-1922 1903 1913
Charlie Starr Pasadena, California 10-18-1937 1905 1909
Elmer Stricklett Santa Cruz, California 06-07-1964 1904 1907
Denny Sullivan West Los Angeles, California 06-02-1956 1905 1909
Bobby Wallace Torrance, California 11-03-1960 1894 1918
Hi West Los Angeles, California 05-25-1963 1905 1911
Harry Wolverton Oakland, California 02-04-1937 1898 1912

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in California / Played in 1905



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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