Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Minnesota

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 Minnesota

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Joe Crotty Minneapolis, Minnesota 06-22-1926 1882 1886
Bill Barnes St. Paul, Minnesota 07-10-1945 1884 1884
Perry Werden Minneapolis, Minnesota 01-09-1934 1884 1897
Joe Werrick St. Peter, Minnesota 05-10-1943 1884 1888
Joe Visner Fosston, Minnesota 06-17-1945 1885 1891
Elmer Foster Deephaven, Minnesota 07-22-1946 1886 1891
Jim Banning St. Paul, Minnesota 10-14-1952 1888 1889
Ed Springer Minneapolis, Minnesota 12-17-1891 1889 1889
Rasty Wright Duluth, Minnesota 10-14-1922 1890 1890
Bill Wilson St. Paul, Minnesota 05-09-1924 1890 1898
Martin Duke Minneapolis, Minnesota 12-31-1898 1891 1891
Bill Fox Minneapolis, Minnesota 05-07-1946 1897 1901
Roger Denzer LeSeur, Minnesota 09-18-1949 1897 1901
Mike Kelley Minneapolis, Minnesota 06-06-1955 1899 1899
Charlie Jones Two Harbors, Minnesota 04-02-1947 1901 1908
Davy Jones Mankato, Minnesota 03-30-1972 1901 1915
Lew Drill St. Paul, Minnesota 07-04-1969 1902 1905
Lou Polchow Good Thunder, Minnesota 08-15-1912 1902 1902
Jack Zalusky Minneapolis, Minnesota 08-11-1935 1903 1903
Spike Shannon Minneapolis, Minnesota 05-16-1940 1904 1908
Bill Carney Hopkins, Minnesota 07-31-1938 1904 1904
Harry Ostdiek Minneapolis, Minnesota 05-06-1956 1904 1908
John Sullivan St. Paul, Minnesota 06-05-1924 1905 1908
Otis Clymer St. Paul, Minnesota 02-27-1926 1905 1913
Fred Curtis Minneapolis, Minnesota 04-05-1939 1905 1905
Frank Owens Minneapolis, Minnesota 07-02-1958 1905 1915
Jake Thielman Minneapolis, Minnesota 01-28-1928 1905 1908
Moonlight Graham Chisholm, Minnesota 08-25-1965 1905 1905
Lee Quillin St. Paul, Minnesota 05-14-1965 1906 1907
Newt Randall Duluth, Minnesota 05-03-1955 1907 1907
Burt Keeley Ely, Minnesota 05-03-1952 1908 1909
Chief Chouneau Cloquet, Minnesota 09-17-1948 1910 1910
Rube Geyer Ford Township, Minnesota 10-12-1962 1910 1913
Wally Mayer Minnetonka, Minnesota 11-18-1951 1911 1919
Hap Morse St. Paul, Minnesota 06-19-1974 1911 1911
Del Paddock Remer, Minnesota 02-06-1952 1912 1912
Bert Brenner St. Louis Park, Minnesota 04-11-1971 1912 1912
Bill Otis Duluth, Minnesota 12-15-1990 1912 1912
Ray Rolling St. Paul, Minnesota 08-25-1966 1912 1912
Hack Spencer St. Anthony, Minnesota 02-05-1969 1912 1912
Walt Johnson Minneapolis, Minnesota 01-14-1965 1912 1917
Rube Schauer Minneapolis, Minnesota 04-15-1957 1913 1917
Bob Ingersoll Minneapolis, Minnesota 01-13-1927 1914 1914
Steamboat Williams Deer River, Minnesota 06-29-1979 1914 1916
George Dumont Minneapolis, Minnesota 10-13-1956 1915 1919
Harry Glenn St. Paul, Minnesota 10-12-1918 1915 1915
Joe Fautsch New Hope, Minnesota 03-16-1971 1916 1916
Rip Conway St. Paul, Minnesota 12-02-1972 1918 1918
Tony Faeth St. Paul, Minnesota 12-22-1982 1919 1920
Ted Odenwald Shakopee, Minnesota 10-23-1965 1921 1922
Ralph Miller White Bear Lake, Minnesota 02-18-1967 1921 1921
Jesse Petty St. Paul, Minnesota 10-23-1971 1921 1930
Ossie Bluege Edina, Minnesota 10-14-1985 1922 1939
Paul Castner St. Paul, Minnesota 03-03-1986 1923 1923
Dutch Levsen St. Louis Park, Minnesota 03-12-1972 1923 1928
Rip Wade Duluth, Minnesota 07-15-1957 1923 1923
Showboat Fisher St.Cloud, Minnesota 05-15-1994 1923 1932
Spencer Harris Minneapolis, Minnesota 07-03-1982 1925 1930
Julie Wera Rochester, Minnesota 12-12-1975 1927 1929
Frank Stewart Stillwater, Minnesota 04-30-2001 1927 1927
Wally Gilbert Duluth, Minnesota 09-07-1958 1928 1932
Jack Ryan Rochester, Minnesota 09-02-1967 1929 1929
Buzz Arlett Minneapolis, Minnesota 05-16-1964 1931 1931
Whitey Hilcher Minneapolis, Minnesota 11-21-1962 1931 1936
Bobby Reis St. Paul, Minnesota 05-01-1973 1931 1938
Phil Gallivan St. Paul, Minnesota 11-24-1969 1931 1934
Ed Pipgras Currie, Minnesota 04-13-1964 1932 1932
Dick Siebert Minneapolis, Minnesota 12-09-1978 1932 1945
Les Tietje Rochester, Minnesota 10-02-1996 1933 1938
Dick Lanahan Rochester, Minnesota 03-12-1975 1935 1941
Hy Vandenberg Bloomington, Minnesota 07-31-1994 1935 1945
Larry Rosenthal Woodbury, Minnesota 03-04-1992 1936 1945
Tony Giuliani St. Paul, Minnesota 10-08-2004 1936 1943
Frank Trechock Minneapolis, Minnesota 01-16-1989 1937 1937
Joe Haynes Hopkins, Minnesota 01-06-1967 1939 1952
Jimmy Pofahl Owatonna, Minnesota 09-14-1984 1940 1942
Frank Jelincich Rochester, Minnesota 06-27-1992 1941 1941
Leo Wells St. Paul, Minnesota 06-23-2006 1942 1946
Jimmy Grant Rochester, Minnesota 07-08-1970 1942 1944
Lou Ciola Austin, Minnesota 10-18-1981 1943 1943
Mickey Rocco St. Paul, Minnesota 06-01-1997 1943 1946
Howie Schultz Chaska, Minnesota 10-30-2009 1943 1948
Blix Donnelly Olivia, Minnesota 06-20-1976 1944 1951
Wes Westrum Clearbrook, Minnesota 05-28-2002 1947 1957
Johnny Van Cuyk Rochester, Minnesota 07-10-2010 1947 1949
Lefty Sloat St. Paul, Minnesota 04-18-2003 1948 1949
Milt Nielsen Mankato, Minnesota 08-01-2005 1949 1951
Don Wheeler Bloomington, Minnesota 12-10-2003 1949 1949
Bill Tuttle Anoka, Minnesota 07-27-1998 1952 1963
Rip Repulski Waite Park, Minnesota 02-10-1993 1953 1961
Bill Antonello Fridley, Minnesota 03-04-1993 1953 1953
Vern Morgan Minneapolis, Minnesota 11-08-1975 1954 1955
Paul Giel Minneapolis, Minnesota 05-22-2002 1954 1961
Johnny Blanchard Robbinsdale, Minnesota 03-25-2009 1955 1965
Bill Froats Minneapolis, Minnesota 02-09-1998 1955 1955
Zoilo Versalles Bloomington, Minnesota 06-09-1995 1959 1971
Fritz Ackley Duluth, Minnesota 05-22-2002 1963 1964
Mike Davison Glencoe, Minnesota 05-11-2013 1969 1970
Danny Thompson Rochester, Minnesota 12-10-1976 1970 1976
Craig Kusick St. Paul, Minnesota 09-27-2006 1973 1979

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Minnesota


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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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