Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Ohio / 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 Ohio / Played in 1939

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Clint Brown Rocky River, Ohio 12-31-1955 1928 1942
Harry Eisenstat Beachwood, Ohio 03-21-2003 1935 1942
Harry Eisenstat Beachwood, Ohio 03-21-2003 1935 1942
Bob Feller Cleveland, Ohio 12-15-2010 1936 1956
Denny Galehouse Doylestown, Ohio 10-14-1998 1934 1949
Ival Goodman Cincinnati, Ohio 11-25-1984 1935 1944
Oscar Grimes Westlake, Ohio 05-19-1993 1938 1946
Lefty Grove Norwalk, Ohio 05-22-1975 1925 1941
Mel Harder Chardon, Ohio 10-20-2002 1928 1947
Tommy Henrich Beavercreek, Ohio 12-01-2009 1937 1950
Ray Mack Bucyrus, Ohio 05-07-1969 1938 1947
Al Milnar Cleveland, Ohio 06-30-2005 1936 1946
Whitey Moore Uhrichsville, Ohio 12-10-1987 1936 1942
Tot Pressnell Kindlay, Ohio 01-06-2001 1938 1942
Red Ruffing Mayfield Heights, Ohio 02-17-1986 1924 1947
Luke Sewell Akron, Ohio 05-14-1987 1921 1942
Milt Shoffner Madison, Ohio 01-19-1978 1929 1940
Milt Shoffner Madison, Ohio 01-19-1978 1929 1940
Steve Sundra Cleveland, Ohio 03-23-1952 1936 1946
Al Veigel Dover, Ohio 04-08-2012 1939 1939
Joe Vosmik Cleveland, Ohio 01-27-1962 1930 1944
Rabbit Warstler North Canton, Ohio 05-31-1964 1930 1940

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Ohio / 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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