Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Iowa

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 Iowa

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Jesse Duryea Algona, Iowa 08-19-1942 1889 1893
Lynn King Atlantic, Iowa 05-11-1972 1935 1939
George Zackert Burlington, Iowa 02-18-1977 1911 1912
George Stovall Burlington, Iowa 11-05-1951 1904 1915
Ralph Bell Burlington, Iowa 10-18-1959 1912 1912
Charlie Dexter Cedar Rapids, Iowa 06-09-1934 1896 1903
Hal Trosky Cedar Rapids, Iowa 06-18-1979 1933 1946
Bill Zuber Cedar Rapids, Iowa 11-02-1982 1936 1947
Paul Speraw Cedar Rapids, Iowa 02-22-1962 1920 1920
Les Munns Cedar Rapids, Iowa 02-28-1997 1934 1936
Mike Chartak Cedar Rapids, Iowa 07-25-1967 1940 1944
Hick Cady Cedar Rapids, Iowa 03-03-1946 1912 1919
Orie Arntzen Cedar Rapids, Iowa 01-28-1970 1943 1943
Cy Slapnicka Cedar Rapids, Iowa 10-20-1979 1911 1918
Belden Hill Cedar Rapids, Iowa 10-22-1934 1890 1890
Roy Radebaugh Cedar Rapids, Iowa 01-17-1945 1911 1911
Joe Weiss Cedar Rapids, Iowa 07-07-1967 1915 1915
Bill Hoffer Cedar Rapids, Iowa 07-21-1959 1895 1901
John Terry Cedar Rapids, Iowa 01-10-1958 1902 1903
Vive Lindaman Charles City, Iowa 02-13-1927 1906 1909
Roy Wilson Clarion, Iowa 12-03-1969 1928 1928
George Stone Clinton, Iowa 01-03-1945 1903 1910
Red Downs Council Bluffs, Iowa 10-19-1939 1907 1912
Gene Baker Davenport, Iowa 12-01-1999 1953 1961
Al Van Camp Davenport, Iowa 02-02-1981 1928 1932
Adrian Lynch Davenport, Iowa 03-16-1934 1920 1920
R.C. Stevens Davenport, Iowa 11-30-2010 1958 1961
Lefty Lorenzen Davenport, Iowa 03-05-1963 1913 1913
Frankie Gustine Davenport, Iowa 04-01-1991 1939 1950
Ossie Orwoll Decorah, Iowa 05-08-1967 1928 1929
Jim Grant Des Moines, Iowa 11-30-1985 1923 1923
Jesse Hoffmeister Des Moines, Iowa 01-14-1933 1897 1897
Ed Hahn Des Moines, Iowa 11-29-1941 1905 1910
Ike McAuley Des Moines, Iowa 04-06-1928 1914 1925
Art Ewoldt Des Moines, Iowa 12-08-1977 1919 1919
Chief Johnson Des Moines, Iowa 06-11-1922 1913 1915
Charlie Sprague Des Moines, Iowa 12-31-1912 1887 1890
Babe Towne Des Moines, Iowa 10-29-1938 1906 1906
Bill Traffley Des Moines, Iowa 06-23-1908 1878 1886
Tom Ryder Dubuque, Iowa 07-18-1935 1884 1884
Ed Keas Dubuque, Iowa 01-12-1940 1888 1888
Charlie Buelow Dubuque, Iowa 05-04-1951 1901 1901
Tom Loftus Dubuque, Iowa 04-16-1910 1877 1883
Lew Fonseca Ely, Iowa 11-26-1989 1921 1933
Gene Ford Emmetsburg, Iowa 09-07-1970 1936 1938
Wattie Holm Everly, Iowa 05-19-1950 1924 1932
Jimmie Long Ft. Dodge, Iowa 09-14-1970 1922 1922
Jackie Collum Grinnell, Iowa 08-29-2009 1951 1962
Joe Jaeger Hampton, Iowa 12-13-1963 1920 1920
Gil Paulsen Harlan, Iowa 04-02-1994 1925 1925
Hal Trosky Hiawatha, Iowa 11-23-2012 1958 1958
Otto Vogel Iowa City, Iowa 07-19-1969 1923 1924
Maury Kent Iowa City, Iowa 04-19-1966 1912 1913
Charlie Frisbee Iowa Falls, Iowa 11-07-1954 1899 1900
Jerry Harrington Keokuk, Iowa 04-16-1913 1890 1893
Jack Saltzgaver Keokuk, Iowa 02-01-1978 1932 1945
Rip Williams Keokuk, Iowa 07-23-1933 1911 1918
Johnny Niggeling LeMars, Iowa 09-16-1963 1938 1946
Duane Josephson New Hampton, Iowa 01-30-1997 1965 1972
George Stueland Onawa, Iowa 09-09-1964 1921 1925
Tom Richardson Onawa, Iowa 11-15-1939 1917 1917
Cliff Knox Oskaloosa, Iowa 09-24-1965 1924 1924
Bud Clancy Ottumwa, Iowa 09-26-1968 1924 1934
Joe Hovlik Oxford Junction, Iowa 11-03-1951 1909 1911
George Tomer Perry, Iowa 12-15-1984 1913 1913
Buster Brown Sioux City, Iowa 02-09-1914 1905 1913
John LeRoy Sioux City, Iowa 06-25-2001 1997 1997
Red Anderson Sioux City, Iowa 08-07-1972 1937 1941
Grover Gilmore Sioux City, Iowa 11-25-1919 1914 1915
George Clark Sioux City, Iowa 11-14-1940 1913 1913
Bob Black Sioux City, Iowa 03-21-1933 1884 1884
Vern Fear Spencer, Iowa 09-06-1976 1952 1952
Charlie Uhlir Spirit Lake, Iowa 07-09-1984 1934 1934
Roxie Lawson Stockport, Iowa 04-09-1977 1930 1940
Ducky Holmes Truro, Iowa 08-06-1932 1895 1905
Tom Hurd Waterloo, Iowa 09-05-1982 1954 1956
Bill Wagner Waterloo, Iowa 01-11-1951 1914 1918
Hal Manders Waukee, Iowa 01-21-2010 1941 1946

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Iowa



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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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1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925
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1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
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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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