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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1953
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 |
| Luis Aloma |
Park Ridge, Illinois |
04-07-1997 |
1950 |
1953 |
| Ed Blake |
Swansea, Illinois |
04-15-2009 |
1951 |
1957 |
| Don Bollweg |
Wheaton, Illinois |
05-26-1996 |
1950 |
1955 |
| Al Corwin |
Geneva, Illinois |
10-23-2003 |
1951 |
1955 |
| Don Elston |
Evanston, Illinois |
01-02-1995 |
1953 |
1964 |
| Warren Hacker |
Lenzburg, Illinois |
05-22-2002 |
1948 |
1961 |
| Jim Hughes |
Chicago, Illinois |
08-13-2001 |
1952 |
1957 |
| Ray Jablonski |
Chicago, Illinois |
11-25-1985 |
1953 |
1960 |
| Johnny Klippstein |
Elgin, Illinois |
10-10-2003 |
1950 |
1967 |
| Dick Kokos |
Chicago, Illinois |
04-09-1986 |
1948 |
1954 |
| Don Kolloway |
Blue Island, Illinois |
06-30-1994 |
1940 |
1953 |
| Dutch Leonard |
Springfield, Illinois |
04-17-1983 |
1933 |
1953 |
| Don Liddle |
Mount Carmel, Illinois |
06-05-2000 |
1953 |
1956 |
| Russ Meyer |
Oglesby, Illinois |
11-16-1997 |
1946 |
1959 |
| Johnny Sain |
Downers Grove, Illinois |
11-07-2006 |
1942 |
1955 |
| Dick Weik |
Harvey, Illinois |
04-21-1991 |
1948 |
1954 |
| Dick Weik |
Harvey, Illinois |
04-21-1991 |
1948 |
1954 |
| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1953
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