Major League Baseball Players Who Died in New York / Played in 1937

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 New York / Played in 1937

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Jumbo Brown Freeport, New York 10-02-1966 1925 1941
Jumbo Brown Freeport, New York 10-02-1966 1925 1941
Tom Carey Rochester, New York 02-21-1970 1935 1946
Ken Chase Oneonta, New York 01-16-1985 1936 1943
Ripper Collins New Haven, New York 04-15-1970 1931 1941
Carl Fischer Medina, New York 12-10-1963 1930 1937
Carl Fischer Medina, New York 12-10-1963 1930 1937
Lou Gehrig Riverdale, Bronx County, New York 06-02-1941 1923 1939
Bill Hallahan Binghamton, New York 07-08-1981 1925 1938
Bill Kalfass Brooklyn, New York 09-08-1968 1937 1937
Howie Krist Buffalo, New York 04-23-1989 1937 1946
Bill Lohrman Poughkeepsie, New York 09-13-1999 1934 1944
Frank McCormick Manhasset, New York 11-21-1982 1934 1948
Johnny Murphy New York, New York 01-14-1970 1932 1947
Ken O'Dea Lima, New York 12-17-1985 1935 1946
Frankie Pytlak Buffalo, New York 05-08-1977 1932 1946
Hal Schumacher Cooperstown, New York 04-21-1993 1931 1946
Al Todd Elmira, New York 03-08-1985 1932 1943

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in New York / Played in 1937


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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