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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in California / Played in 1966
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 |
| Leon Wagner |
Los Angeles, California |
01-03-2004 |
1958 |
1969 |
| Don Landrum |
Pittsburg, California |
01-09-2003 |
1957 |
1966 |
| Curt Flood |
Los Angeles, California |
01-20-1997 |
1956 |
1971 |
| Chico Ruiz |
San Diego, California |
02-09-1972 |
1964 |
1971 |
| Eddie Mathews |
La Jolla, California |
02-18-2001 |
1952 |
1968 |
| Greg Goossen |
Sherman Oaks, California |
02-26-2011 |
1965 |
1970 |
| Frank Bertaina |
Santa Rosa, California |
03-03-2010 |
1964 |
1970 |
| Willie Davis |
Burbank, California |
03-09-2010 |
1960 |
1979 |
| Minnie Rojas |
Los Angeles, California |
03-23-2002 |
1966 |
1968 |
| Jim Pagliaroni |
Grass Valley, California |
04-03-2010 |
1955 |
1969 |
| Deron Johnson |
Poway, California |
04-23-1992 |
1960 |
1976 |
| Mel Queen |
Morro Bay, California |
05-13-2011 |
1964 |
1972 |
| Jerry Stephenson |
Anaheim, California |
06-06-2010 |
1963 |
1970 |
| Herb Hippauf |
Santa Clara, California |
07-17-1995 |
1966 |
1966 |
| Lee Maye |
Riverside, California |
07-17-2002 |
1959 |
1971 |
| Don McMahon |
Los Angeles, California |
07-22-1987 |
1957 |
1974 |
| Don McMahon |
Los Angeles, California |
07-22-1987 |
1957 |
1974 |
| Bob Miller |
Rancho Bernardo, California |
08-06-1993 |
1957 |
1974 |
| Johnny Roseboro |
Los Angeles, California |
08-16-2002 |
1957 |
1970 |
| Willie Crawford |
Los Angeles, California |
08-27-2004 |
1964 |
1977 |
| Dick Selma |
Clovis, California |
08-29-2001 |
1965 |
1974 |
| Hal Reniff |
Ontario, California |
09-07-2004 |
1961 |
1967 |
| Jim Gilliam |
Inglewood, California |
10-08-1978 |
1953 |
1966 |
| Vada Pinson |
Oakland, California |
10-21-1995 |
1958 |
1975 |
| Ed Sadowski |
Garden Grove, California |
11-06-1993 |
1960 |
1966 |
| Jesse Gonder |
Oakland, California |
11-14-2004 |
1960 |
1967 |
| Ed Kirkpatrick |
Mission Viejo, California |
11-15-2010 |
1962 |
1977 |
| Tom Haller |
Los Angeles, California |
11-26-2004 |
1961 |
1972 |
| Dick Kelley |
Northridge, California |
12-12-1991 |
1964 |
1971 |
| Dick Stuart |
Redwood City, California |
12-15-2002 |
1958 |
1969 |
| Dick Stuart |
Redwood City, California |
12-15-2002 |
1958 |
1969 |
| Larry Sherry |
Mission Viejo, California |
12-17-2006 |
1958 |
1968 |
| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in California / Played in 1966
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