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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1878
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.
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"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) |
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| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
| Cap Anson |
Chicago, Illinois |
04-14-1922 |
1876 |
1897 |
| Abner Dalrymple |
Warren, Illinois |
01-25-1939 |
1878 |
1891 |
| Silver Flint |
Chicago, Illinois |
01-14-1892 |
1876 |
1889 |
| Will Foley |
Chicago, Illinois |
11-12-1916 |
1876 |
1884 |
| Mike Golden |
Rockford, Illinois |
01-11-1929 |
1878 |
1878 |
| Jimmy Hallinan |
Chicago, Illinois |
10-28-1879 |
1876 |
1878 |
| Jimmy Hallinan |
Chicago, Illinois |
10-28-1879 |
1876 |
1878 |
| Dick Higham |
Chicago, Illinois |
03-18-1905 |
1876 |
1880 |
| Bill McClellan |
Chicago, Illinois |
07-03-1929 |
1878 |
1888 |
| Laurie Reis |
Chicago, Illinois |
01-24-1921 |
1877 |
1878 |
| Deacon White |
St. Charles Township, Illinois |
07-07-1939 |
1876 |
1890 |
| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1878
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