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.

"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 Illinois / Played in 1931

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

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

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1931



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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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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