Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1941

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 1941

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Russ Bauers Hines, Illinois 01-21-1995 1936 1950
Boom-Boom Beck Champaign, Illinois 05-07-1987 1924 1945
Rae Blaemire Champaign, Illinois 12-23-1975 1941 1941
Lou Boudreau Olympia Fields, Illinois 08-10-2001 1938 1952
Bob Carpenter Evergreen Park, Illinois 10-19-2005 1940 1947
John Dudra Pana, Illinois 10-24-1965 1941 1941
Erv Dusak Glendale Heights, Illinois 11-06-1994 1941 1952
Nick Etten Hinsdale, Illinois 10-18-1990 1938 1947
Joe Grace Murphysboro, Illinois 09-18-1969 1938 1947
Stan Hack Dixon, Illinois 12-15-1979 1932 1947
Chet Hajduk Chicago, Illinois 07-05-2006 1941 1941
Gabby Hartnett Park Ridge, Illinois 12-20-1972 1922 1941
Ira Hutchinson Chicago, Illinois 08-21-1973 1933 1945
Si Johnson Sheridan, Illinois 05-12-1994 1928 1947
Don Kolloway Blue Island, Illinois 06-30-1994 1940 1953
Mike Kreevich Pana, Illinois 04-25-1994 1931 1945
Emil Kush River Grove, Illinois 11-26-1969 1941 1949
Dutch Leonard Springfield, Illinois 04-17-1983 1933 1953
Phil Masi Mt. Prospect, Illinois 03-29-1990 1939 1952
Paul Masterson Chicago, Illinois 11-27-1997 1940 1942
Johnny McCarthy Mundelein, Illinois 09-13-1973 1934 1948
Wally Millies Oak Lawn, Illinois 02-28-1995 1934 1941
Terry Moore Collinsville, Illinois 03-29-1995 1935 1948
Les Mueller Belleville, Illinois 10-25-2012 1941 1945
Vern Olsen Maywood, Illinois 07-13-1989 1939 1946
Fritz Ostermueller Quincy, Illinois 12-17-1957 1934 1948
Al Piechota Chicago, Illinois 06-13-1996 1940 1941
Nels Potter Mt. Morris, Illinois 09-30-1990 1936 1949
Nels Potter Mt. Morris, Illinois 09-30-1990 1936 1949
Johnny Rigney Lombard, Illinois 10-21-1984 1937 1947
Ray Starr Baylis, Illinois 02-09-1963 1932 1945
Tom Sunkel Paris, Illinois 04-06-2002 1937 1944
Dizzy Trout Harvey, Illinois 02-28-1972 1939 1957
Roger Wolff Chester, Illinois 03-23-1994 1941 1947

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1941



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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