Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1906

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 Illinois / Played in 1906

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Dave Altizer Pleasant Hill, Illinois 05-14-1964 1906 1911
Harry Bay Peoria, Illinois 03-20-1952 1901 1908
Fred Beebe Elgin, Illinois 10-30-1957 1906 1916
Fred Beebe Elgin, Illinois 10-30-1957 1906 1916
Ben Caffyn Peoria, Illinois 11-22-1942 1906 1906
Lou Fiene Chicago, Illinois 12-22-1964 1906 1909
Norwood Gibson Peoria, Illinois 07-07-1959 1903 1906
Frank Hemphill Chicago, Illinois 11-16-1950 1906 1909
Jack Himes Joliet, Illinois 12-16-1949 1905 1906
Ed Hughes McHenry, Illinois 10-14-1927 1902 1906
Tom Hughes Chicago, Illinois 02-08-1956 1900 1913
Beany Jacobson Decatur, Illinois 01-31-1933 1904 1907
Hub Knolls Chicago, Illinois 07-01-1946 1906 1906
Carl Lundgren Marengo, Illinois 08-21-1934 1902 1909
Doc Marshall Clinton, Illinois 12-11-1959 1904 1909
Doc Marshall Clinton, Illinois 12-11-1959 1904 1909
Dutch Meier Chicago, Illinois 03-23-1948 1906 1906
Charley O'Leary Chicago, Illinois 01-06-1941 1904 1934
Big Jeff Pfeffer Kankakee, Illinois 12-19-1954 1905 1911
Jack Powell Chicago, Illinois 10-17-1944 1897 1912
Jimmy Slagle Chicago, Illinois 05-10-1956 1899 1908
Dummy Taylor Jacksonville, Illinois 08-22-1958 1900 1908
Howard Wakefield Chicago, Illinois 04-16-1941 1905 1907
Jake Weimer Chicago, Illinois 06-19-1928 1903 1909
Bob Wicker Evanston, Illinois 01-22-1955 1901 1906
Bob Wicker Evanston, Illinois 01-22-1955 1901 1906

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1906



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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