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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Michigan / Played in 1947
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 |
| Scott Cary |
Coldwater, Michigan |
02-28-2011 |
1947 |
1947 |
| Roy Cullenbine |
Mt. Clemens, Michigan |
05-28-1991 |
1938 |
1947 |
| Rick Ferrell |
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
07-27-1995 |
1929 |
1947 |
| Steve Gromek |
Clinton Township, Michigan |
03-12-2002 |
1941 |
1957 |
| Mickey Harris |
Farmington, Michigan |
04-15-1971 |
1940 |
1952 |
| Art Houtteman |
Rochester Hills, Michigan |
05-06-2003 |
1945 |
1957 |
| Chet Laabs |
Warren, Michigan |
01-26-1983 |
1937 |
1947 |
| Joe Lafata |
Roseville, Michigan |
05-06-2004 |
1947 |
1949 |
| Cass Michaels |
Grosse Pointe, Michigan |
11-12-1982 |
1943 |
1954 |
| Hal Newhouser |
Southfield, Michigan |
11-10-1998 |
1939 |
1955 |
| Jack Phillips |
Chelsea, Michigan |
08-30-2009 |
1947 |
1957 |
| Bob Swift |
Detroit, Michigan |
10-17-1966 |
1940 |
1953 |
| Mike Tresh |
Detroit, Michigan |
10-04-1966 |
1938 |
1949 |
| Dick Wakefield |
Redford, Michigan |
08-26-1985 |
1941 |
1952 |
| Vic Wertz |
Detroit, Michigan |
07-07-1983 |
1947 |
1963 |
| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Michigan / Played in 1947
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