Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Ohio / Played in 1887

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 Ohio / Played in 1887

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Kid Baldwin Cincinnati, Ohio 07-10-1897 1884 1890
Jack Boyle Cincinnati, Ohio 01-06-1913 1886 1898
Amos Cross Cleveland, Ohio 07-16-1888 1885 1887
Lave Cross Toledo, Ohio 09-06-1927 1887 1907
Buck Ewing Cincinnati, Ohio 10-20-1906 1880 1897
Bill Hart Cincinnati, Ohio 09-19-1936 1886 1901
Guy Hecker Wooster, Ohio 12-03-1938 1882 1890
Pete Hotaling Cleveland, Ohio 07-02-1928 1879 1888
Jim Keenan Cincinnati, Ohio 09-21-1926 1880 1891
Bill Kuehne Sulphur Springs, Ohio 10-27-1921 1883 1892
Ed McKean Cleveland, Ohio 08-16-1919 1887 1899
Joe Neale Akron, Ohio 12-30-1913 1886 1891
George Pechiney Cincinnati, Ohio 07-14-1943 1885 1887
John Reilly Cincinnati, Ohio 05-31-1937 1880 1891
Ed Seward Cleveland, Ohio 07-30-1947 1885 1891
Joe Sommer Cincinnati, Ohio 01-16-1938 1880 1890
Andy Sommers Cleveland, Ohio 07-22-1908 1887 1890
Bill Stemmyer Cleveland, Ohio 05-03-1945 1885 1888
Larry Twitchell Cleveland, Ohio 08-23-1930 1886 1894
Mother Watson Middleport, Ohio 11-23-1898 1887 1887
Curt Welch East Liverpool, Ohio 08-29-1896 1884 1893
Bill White Bellaire, Ohio 12-29-1924 1883 1888
Wild Bill Widner Cincinnati, Ohio 12-10-1908 1887 1891
Sam Wise Akron, Ohio 01-22-1910 1881 1893
Chief Zimmer Cleveland, Ohio 08-22-1949 1884 1903

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Ohio / Played in 1887


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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