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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1931
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.
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"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) |
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| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
| Otis Miller |
Belleville, Illinois |
07-26-1959 |
1927 |
1932 |
| Jess Doyle |
Belleville, Illinois |
04-15-1961 |
1925 |
1931 |
| Fred Schulte |
Belvidere, Illinois |
05-20-1983 |
1927 |
1937 |
| Wally Roettger |
Champaign, Illinois |
09-14-1951 |
1927 |
1934 |
| Wally Roettger |
Champaign, Illinois |
09-14-1951 |
1927 |
1934 |
| Phil Collins |
Chicago, Illinois |
08-14-1948 |
1923 |
1935 |
| Ski Melillo |
Chicago, Illinois |
11-14-1963 |
1926 |
1937 |
| Freddie Lindstrom |
Chicago, Illinois |
10-04-1981 |
1924 |
1936 |
| Ed Grimes |
Chicago, Illinois |
10-05-1974 |
1931 |
1932 |
| Red Faber |
Chicago, Illinois |
09-25-1976 |
1914 |
1933 |
| Bill Cissell |
Chicago, Illinois |
03-15-1949 |
1928 |
1938 |
| Bob Weiland |
Chicago, Illinois |
11-09-1988 |
1928 |
1940 |
| Rogers Hornsby |
Chicago, Illinois |
01-05-1963 |
1915 |
1937 |
| Bill Walker |
East St. Louis, Illinois |
06-14-1966 |
1927 |
1936 |
| Tony Kaufmann |
Elgin, Illinois |
06-04-1982 |
1921 |
1935 |
| Charlie Berry |
Evanston, Illinois |
09-06-1972 |
1925 |
1938 |
| Ed Baecht |
Grafton, Illinois |
08-15-1957 |
1926 |
1937 |
| Tony Piet |
Hinsdale, Illinois |
12-01-1981 |
1931 |
1938 |
| Bobby Burke |
Joliet, Illinois |
02-08-1971 |
1927 |
1937 |
| Mickey Cochrane |
Lake Forest, Illinois |
06-28-1962 |
1925 |
1937 |
| Ray Blades |
Lincoln, Illinois |
05-18-1979 |
1922 |
1932 |
| Johnny Lucas |
Maryville, Illinois |
10-31-1970 |
1931 |
1932 |
| Jack Warner |
Mt. Vernon, Illinois |
03-13-1986 |
1925 |
1933 |
| Mike Kreevich |
Pana, Illinois |
04-25-1994 |
1931 |
1945 |
| Gabby Hartnett |
Park Ridge, Illinois |
12-20-1972 |
1922 |
1941 |
| Gene Rye |
Park Ridge, Illinois |
01-21-1980 |
1931 |
1931 |
| Si Johnson |
Sheridan, Illinois |
05-12-1994 |
1928 |
1947 |
| Bob O'Farrell |
Waukegan, Illinois |
02-20-1988 |
1915 |
1935 |
| Bennie Tate |
West Frankfort, Illinois |
10-27-1973 |
1924 |
1934 |
| Art Jorgens |
Wilmette, Illinois |
03-01-1980 |
1929 |
1939 |
| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1931
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