Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Oregon

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 Oregon

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Ethan Allen Brookings, Oregon 09-15-1993 1926 1938
Charlie Armbruster Grants Pass, Oregon 10-07-1964 1905 1907
Charlie Babb Portland, Oregon 03-19-1954 1903 1905
Moose Baxter Portland, Oregon 08-07-1926 1907 1907
Dennis Bennett Klamath Falls, Oregon 03-23-2012 1962 1968
Lefty Bertrand Dalles, Oregon 03-17-2002 1936 1936
Bill Bevens Salem, Oregon 10-26-1991 1944 1947
Carson Bigbee Portland, Oregon 10-17-1964 1916 1926
Lyle Bigbee Portland, Oregon 08-05-1942 1920 1921
Jim Brown Bradwood, Oregon 10-22-1944 1915 1916
Cliff Carroll Portland, Oregon 06-12-1923 1882 1893
Curt Coleman Newport, Oregon 07-01-1980 1912 1912
Ed Coleman Oregon City, Oregon 08-05-1964 1932 1936
Klondike Douglass Bend, Oregon 12-01-1953 1896 1904
Pete Dowling Hot Lake, Oregon 06-30-1905 1897 1901
Carl Druhot Portland, Oregon 02-05-1918 1906 1907
Larry Duff Bend, Oregon 11-10-1969 1922 1922
Glenn Elliott Portland, Oregon 07-27-1969 1947 1949
Red Embree Eugene, Oregon 09-24-1996 1941 1949
Joe Erautt Portland, Oregon 10-06-1976 1950 1951
Gus Fisher Portland, Oregon 04-08-1972 1911 1912
Wally Flager Keizer, Oregon 12-16-1990 1945 1945
Johnny Frederick Tigard, Oregon 06-18-1977 1929 1934
Harry Gardner Canby, Oregon 08-02-1961 1911 1912
Paul Gehrman Bend, Oregon 10-23-1986 1937 1937
Roy Grover Milwaukie, Oregon 02-07-1978 1916 1919
Ernie Gust Maupin, Oregon 10-26-1945 1911 1911
Oscar Harstad Corvallis, Oregon 11-14-1985 1915 1915
Howie Haworth Troutdale, Oregon 01-28-1953 1915 1915
Charlie High Oak Grove, Oregon 09-11-1960 1919 1920
Bruce Hitt Portland, Oregon 11-10-1973 1917 1917
Ivan Howard Medford, Oregon 03-30-1967 1914 1917
Mel Ingram Medford, Oregon 10-28-1979 1929 1929
Larry Jansen Verboort, Oregon 10-10-2009 1947 1956
Syl Johnson Portland, Oregon 02-20-1985 1922 1940
Fielder Jones Portland, Oregon 03-13-1934 1896 1915
Rudy Kallio Newport, Oregon 04-06-1979 1918 1925
Harry Kane Portland, Oregon 09-15-1932 1902 1906
Al Kellogg Portland, Oregon 07-21-1953 1908 1908
Ralph Kreitz Portland, Oregon 07-20-1941 1911 1911
John Leovich Lincoln City, Oregon 02-03-2000 1941 1941
Dixie Leverett Beaverton, Oregon 02-20-1957 1922 1929
Royce Lint Portland, Oregon 04-03-2006 1954 1954
Ad Liska Portland, Oregon 11-30-1998 1929 1933
Lynn Lovenguth Beaverton, Oregon 09-29-2000 1955 1957
Hal Luby Eugene, Oregon 05-04-1986 1936 1944
Mike Lynch Jennings Lodge, Oregon 04-01-1947 1902 1902
Howard Maple Portland, Oregon 11-09-1970 1932 1932
Max Marshall Salem, Oregon 09-16-1993 1942 1944
Walt McCredie Portland, Oregon 07-29-1934 1903 1903
Ed Mensor Salem, Oregon 04-20-1970 1912 1914
Charley Moore Portland, Oregon 07-29-1970 1912 1912
Jim Mosolf Dallas, Oregon 12-28-1979 1929 1933
Tom Parrott Dundee, Oregon 01-01-1932 1893 1896
Charlie Perkins Salem, Oregon 05-25-1988 1930 1934
Hub Pernoll Grants Pass, Oregon 02-18-1944 1910 1912
Harry Rice Portland, Oregon 01-01-1971 1923 1933
Bill Salisbury Rowena, Oregon 01-17-1952 1902 1902
Bill Sayles Lincoln City, Oregon 11-20-1996 1939 1943
Wes Schulmerich Corvallis, Oregon 06-26-1985 1931 1934
George Scott Philomath, Oregon 12-03-1962 1920 1920
By Speece Elgin, Oregon 09-29-1974 1924 1930
Jake Striker Dallas, Oregon 03-07-2013 1959 1960
Billy Sullivan Newberg, Oregon 01-28-1965 1899 1916
Suds Sutherland Portland, Oregon 05-11-1972 1921 1921
Charlie Swindells Portland, Oregon 07-22-1940 1904 1904
Doug Taitt Portland, Oregon 12-12-1970 1928 1932
Wayne Twitchell Portland, Oregon 09-16-2010 1970 1979
Deacon Van Buren Portland, Oregon 06-29-1957 1904 1904
Lefty Wilkie Tualatin, Oregon 08-05-1992 1941 1946
Ken Williams Grants Pass, Oregon 01-22-1959 1915 1929
Artie Wilson Portland, Oregon 10-31-2010 1951 1951
Paul Zahniser Klamath Falls, Oregon 09-26-1964 1923 1929
Jerry Zimmerman Neskowin, Oregon 09-09-1998 1961 1968

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Oregon



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:
 
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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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