Major League Baseball Players Who Died in North Carolina / Played in 1939

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 North Carolina / Played in 1939

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Nate Andrews Winston-Salem, North Carolina 04-26-1991 1937 1946
Red Barrett Wilson, North Carolina 07-28-1990 1937 1949
Jimmy Brown Bath, North Carolina 12-29-1977 1937 1946
Mace Brown Greensboro, North Carolina 03-24-2002 1935 1946
Fred Chapman Kannapolis, North Carolina 03-27-1997 1939 1941
Al Evans Wilson, North Carolina 04-06-1979 1939 1951
Floyd Giebell Wilkesboro, North Carolina 04-28-2004 1939 1941
Ray Hayworth High Point, North Carolina 09-25-2002 1926 1945
Ray Hayworth High Point, North Carolina 09-25-2002 1926 1945
Ralph Hodgin Burlington, North Carolina 10-04-2011 1939 1948
Bill Holland Goldsboro, North Carolina 04-05-1997 1939 1939
Roy Hughes Asheville, North Carolina 03-05-1995 1935 1946
Roy Hughes Asheville, North Carolina 03-05-1995 1935 1946
Johnny Lanning Asheville, North Carolina 11-08-1989 1936 1947
Buddy Lewis Gastonia, North Carolina 02-18-2011 1935 1949
Wes Livengood Winston-Salem, North Carolina 09-02-1996 1939 1939
Stu Martin Severn, North Carolina 01-11-1997 1936 1943
Walt Masterson Durham, North Carolina 04-05-2008 1939 1956
Don Padgett High Point, North Carolina 12-02-1980 1937 1948
Vance Page Wilson, North Carolina 07-14-1951 1938 1941
Johnny Peacock Wilson, North Carolina 10-17-1981 1937 1945
Woody Rich Morganton, North Carolina 04-18-1983 1939 1944
Lew Riggs Durham, North Carolina 08-12-1975 1934 1946
Buck Ross Charlotte, North Carolina 11-23-1978 1936 1945
Enos Slaughter Durham, North Carolina 08-12-2002 1938 1959
Dave Smith Whiteville, North Carolina 04-01-1998 1938 1939
Jake Wade Wildwood, North Carolina 02-01-2006 1936 1946
Jake Wade Wildwood, North Carolina 02-01-2006 1936 1946
Bill Werber Charlotte, North Carolina 01-22-2009 1930 1942
Burgess Whitehead Windsor, North Carolina 11-25-1993 1933 1946
Pep Young Jamestown, North Carolina 01-14-1962 1933 1945
Eddie Yount Newton, North Carolina 10-26-1973 1937 1939

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in North Carolina / Played in 1939



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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