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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1958
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 |
| Dick Drott |
Glendale Heights, Illinois |
08-16-1985 |
1957 |
1963 |
| Don Elston |
Evanston, Illinois |
01-02-1995 |
1953 |
1964 |
| Don Erickson |
Springfield, Illinois |
08-01-2012 |
1958 |
1958 |
| Jim Finigan |
Quincy, Illinois |
05-16-1981 |
1954 |
1959 |
| Gary Geiger |
Murphysboro, Illinois |
04-24-1996 |
1958 |
1970 |
| Warren Hacker |
Lenzburg, Illinois |
05-22-2002 |
1948 |
1961 |
| Bob Hale |
Park Ridge, Illinois |
09-08-2012 |
1955 |
1961 |
| Ray Jablonski |
Chicago, Illinois |
11-25-1985 |
1953 |
1960 |
| Johnny Klippstein |
Elgin, Illinois |
10-10-2003 |
1950 |
1967 |
| Johnny Klippstein |
Elgin, Illinois |
10-10-2003 |
1950 |
1967 |
| Walt Moryn |
Winfield, Illinois |
07-21-1996 |
1954 |
1961 |
| Johnny Schaive |
Springfield, Illinois |
05-11-2009 |
1958 |
1963 |
| Bill Skowron |
Arlington Heights, Illinois |
04-27-2012 |
1954 |
1967 |
| El Tappe |
Quincy, Illinois |
10-10-1998 |
1954 |
1962 |
| Bob Will |
Woodstock, Illinois |
08-11-2011 |
1957 |
1963 |
| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1958
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