Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1919

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 1919

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Bob Allen Naperville, Illinois 12-18-1975 1919 1919
Nick Allen Hines, Illinois 10-16-1939 1914 1920
Sweetbreads Bailey Joliet, Illinois 09-27-1939 1919 1921
Joe Benz Chicago, Illinois 04-22-1957 1911 1919
Hal Carlson Chicago, Illinois 05-28-1930 1917 1930
Ray Demmitt Glen Ellyn, Illinois 02-19-1956 1909 1919
Red Faber Chicago, Illinois 09-25-1976 1914 1933
Max Flack Belleville, Illinois 07-31-1975 1914 1925
George Halas Chicago, Illinois 10-31-1983 1919 1919
Rogers Hornsby Chicago, Illinois 01-05-1963 1915 1937
Baby Doll Jacobson Orion, Illinois 01-16-1977 1915 1927
Will Koenigsmark Belleville, Illinois 07-01-1972 1919 1919
Ernie Krueger Waukegan, Illinois 04-22-1976 1913 1925
Grover Lowdermilk Odin, Illinois 03-31-1968 1909 1920
Grover Lowdermilk Odin, Illinois 03-31-1968 1909 1920
Bill McCabe Chicago, Illinois 09-02-1966 1918 1920
Luke Nelson Moline, Illinois 11-14-1985 1919 1919
Joel Newkirk Eldorado, Illinois 01-22-1966 1919 1920
Bob O'Farrell Waukegan, Illinois 02-20-1988 1915 1935
Jeff Pfeffer Chicago, Illinois 08-15-1972 1911 1924
Hal Reilly Chicago, Illinois 12-24-1957 1919 1919
Braggo Roth Chicago, Illinois 09-11-1936 1914 1921
Braggo Roth Chicago, Illinois 09-11-1936 1914 1921
Ray Schalk Chicago, Illinois 05-19-1970 1912 1929
Jack Smith Westchester, Illinois 05-02-1972 1915 1929
John Sullivan Chicago, Illinois 07-07-1958 1919 1919
Ed Sweeney Chicago, Illinois 07-04-1947 1908 1919
Hippo Vaughn Chicago, Illinois 05-29-1966 1908 1921
Buck Weaver Chicago, Illinois 01-31-1956 1912 1920
Art Wilson Chicago, Illinois 06-12-1960 1908 1921

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1919



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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