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

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Georgia / 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)

Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Georgia / Played in 1939 A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Nolen Richardson	Athens, Georgia	09-25-1951	1929	1939
Johnny Echols	Atlanta, Georgia	11-13-1972	1939	1939
Hugh Casey	Atlanta, Georgia	07-03-1951	1935	1949
Whit Wyatt	Carrollton, Georgia	07-16-1999	1929	1945
Herb Bremer	Columbus, Georgia	11-28-1979	1937	1939
Skeeter Newsome	Columbus, Georgia	08-31-1989	1935	1947
Elmer Riddle	Columbus, Georgia	05-14-1984	1939	1949
Luke Appling	Cumming, Georgia	01-03-1991	1930	1950
Oliver Hill	Decatur, Georgia	09-20-1970	1939	1939
Johnny Mize	Demorest, Georgia	06-02-1993	1936	1953
Phil Cavarretta	Lilburn, Georgia	12-18-2010	1934	1955
Jim Bagby	Marietta, Georgia	09-02-1988	1938	1947
Cecil Travis	Riverdale, Georgia	12-16-2006	1933	1947
Rudy York	Rome, Georgia	02-05-1970	1934	1948
Wally Moses	Vidalia, Georgia	10-10-1990	1935	1951
Player	Died In	Date of Death	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Georgia / 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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