Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Missouri / Played in 1945

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 Missouri / Played in 1945

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Ken Gables Walnut Grove, Missouri 01-02-1960 1945 1947
Chuck Workman Kansas City, Missouri 01-03-1953 1938 1946
Lou Fette Warrensburg, Missouri 01-03-1981 1937 1945
Joe Schultz St. Louis, Missouri 01-10-1996 1939 1948
Bud Byerly St. Louis, Missouri 01-26-2012 1943 1960
Vern Kennedy Mendon, Missouri 01-28-1993 1934 1945
Vern Kennedy Mendon, Missouri 01-28-1993 1934 1945
Milt Byrnes St. Louis, Missouri 02-01-1979 1943 1945
Marty Marion St. Louis, Missouri 03-15-2011 1940 1953
Pat Seerey Jennings, Missouri 04-28-1986 1943 1949
Al Gerheauser Springfield, Missouri 05-28-1972 1943 1948
Jack Phillips St. Louis, Missouri 06-16-1958 1945 1945
Mickey Owen Mount Vernon, Missouri 07-13-2005 1937 1954
Mark Christman St. Louis, Missouri 10-09-1976 1938 1949
Russ Derry Kansas City, Missouri 10-26-2004 1944 1949
Ray Sanders Washington, Missouri 10-28-1983 1942 1949
Preacher Roe West Plains, Missouri 11-09-2008 1938 1954
Roy Lee St. Louis, Missouri 11-11-1985 1945 1945
Hersh Martin Cuba, Missouri 11-17-1980 1937 1945
Joe Bowman Kansas City, Missouri 11-22-1990 1932 1945
Joe Bowman Kansas City, Missouri 11-22-1990 1932 1945
Hal Kleine St. Louis, Missouri 12-10-1957 1944 1945
Mike Ryba Brookline Station, Missouri 12-13-1971 1935 1946
Felix Mackiewicz Olivette, Missouri 12-20-1993 1941 1947

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Missouri / Played in 1945



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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