Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Oklahoma

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 Oklahoma

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
John Stoneham Owasso, Oklahoma 01-01-2004 1933 1933
Tommy Warren Tulsa, Oklahoma 01-02-1968 1944 1944
Dale Mitchell Tulsa, Oklahoma 01-05-1987 1946 1956
Tony Rego Tulsa, Oklahoma 01-06-1978 1924 1925
Red Schillings Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 01-07-1954 1922 1922
Eddie Palmer Marlow, Oklahoma 01-09-1983 1917 1917
Roy Jarvis Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 01-13-1990 1944 1947
Ted Blankenship Atoka, Oklahoma 01-14-1945 1922 1930
Liz Funk Norman, Oklahoma 01-16-1968 1929 1933
John Hall Midwest City, Oklahoma 01-17-1995 1948 1948
Harry Brecheen Bethany, Oklahoma 01-17-2004 1940 1953
Guy Cantrell McAlester, Oklahoma 01-31-1961 1925 1930
Herb Adams Tulsa, Oklahoma 02-01-2012 1948 1950
Euel Moore Tishomingo, Oklahoma 02-12-1989 1934 1936
John Callahan Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 02-15-1954 1898 1898
Joe Frazier Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 02-15-2011 1947 1956
Dick Stone Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 02-18-1980 1945 1945
Len Gilmore Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 02-18-2011 1944 1944
Bill Shores Purcell, Oklahoma 02-19-1984 1928 1936
George Hogan Bartlesville, Oklahoma 02-22-1922 1914 1914
Uke Clanton Antlers, Oklahoma 02-24-1960 1922 1922
Tom Sturdivant Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 02-28-2009 1955 1964
Rube Foster Bokoshe, Oklahoma 03-01-1976 1913 1917
Tom Borland Stillwater, Oklahoma 03-02-2013 1960 1961
Jennings Poindexter Norman, Oklahoma 03-03-1983 1936 1939
Doc Reisling Tulsa, Oklahoma 03-04-1955 1904 1910
Pepper Martin McAlester, Oklahoma 03-05-1965 1928 1944
Claude Thomas Sulphur, Oklahoma 03-06-1946 1916 1916
Jack Bradley Tulsa, Oklahoma 03-18-1969 1916 1916
Roy Foster Tulsa, Oklahoma 03-21-2008 1970 1972
Willard Schmidt Newcastle, Oklahoma 03-22-2007 1952 1959
Wilcy Moore Hollis, Oklahoma 03-29-1963 1927 1933
Ike Kahdot Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 03-31-1999 1922 1922
Chief Yellow Horse Pawnee, Oklahoma 04-10-1964 1921 1922
Carl Morton Tulsa, Oklahoma 04-12-1983 1969 1976
Vallie Eaves Norman, Oklahoma 04-19-1960 1935 1942
Peaches Davis Duncan, Oklahoma 04-28-1995 1936 1939
Thurman Tucker Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 05-07-1993 1942 1951
Bennie Warren Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 05-11-1994 1939 1947
Roy Parker Tulsa, Oklahoma 05-17-1954 1919 1919
Dennis Burns Tulsa, Oklahoma 05-21-1969 1923 1924
Cot Deal Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 05-21-2013 1947 1954
Rip Radcliff Enid, Oklahoma 05-23-1962 1934 1943
Ab Wright Muskogee, Oklahoma 05-23-1995 1935 1944
Howie Gregory Tulsa, Oklahoma 05-30-1970 1911 1911
Jerry Adair Tulsa, Oklahoma 05-31-1987 1958 1970
Milt Steengrafe Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 06-02-1977 1924 1926
Bill Reynolds Carnegie, Oklahoma 06-05-1924 1913 1914
Jim Walkup Duncan, Oklahoma 06-12-1990 1927 1927
Chuck Corgan Wagoner, Oklahoma 06-13-1928 1925 1927
Hugh Willingham El Reno, Oklahoma 06-15-1988 1930 1933
Ross Reynolds Ada, Oklahoma 06-23-1970 1914 1915
Lil Stoner Enid, Oklahoma 06-26-1966 1922 1931
Ben Tincup Claremore, Oklahoma 07-05-1980 1914 1928
Bobby Murcer Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 07-12-2008 1965 1983
Lloyd Waner Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 07-22-1982 1927 1945
Mike Balenti Altus, Oklahoma 08-04-1955 1911 1913
Bill McGill Alva, Oklahoma 08-07-1959 1907 1907
Ed Klepfer Tulsa, Oklahoma 08-09-1950 1911 1919
Bill Wilson Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 08-11-1993 1969 1973
Dee Sanders McAlester, Oklahoma 08-17-2007 1945 1945
Ned Pettigrew Duncan, Oklahoma 08-20-1952 1914 1914
Von McDaniel Lawton, Oklahoma 08-20-1995 1957 1958
Bill Breckinridge Tulsa, Oklahoma 08-23-1958 1929 1929
Cal McLish Edmond, Oklahoma 08-26-2010 1944 1964
Jim Oglesby Tulsa, Oklahoma 09-01-1955 1936 1936
Joe Hassler Duncan, Oklahoma 09-04-1971 1928 1930
Gus Ketchum Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 09-06-1980 1922 1922
Jim Shilling Tulsa, Oklahoma 09-12-1986 1939 1939
Lou Kretlow Enid, Oklahoma 09-12-2007 1946 1956
Cy Blanton Norman, Oklahoma 09-13-1945 1934 1942
Ray Coleman Norman, Oklahoma 09-18-2010 1947 1952
Paul Hinson Muskogee, Oklahoma 09-23-1960 1928 1928
Bruce Sloan Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 09-24-1973 1944 1944
Charlie Emig Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 10-02-1975 1896 1896
Al Heist Tahleguah, Oklahoma 10-02-2006 1960 1962
Kevin Foster Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 10-11-2008 1993 2001
Ernie Burch Guthrie, Oklahoma 10-12-1892 1884 1887
Harry Huston Blackwell, Oklahoma 10-13-1969 1906 1906
Al Widmar Tulsa, Oklahoma 10-15-2005 1947 1952
Jack Killilay Tulsa, Oklahoma 10-21-1968 1911 1911
Fred Olmsted Muskogee, Oklahoma 10-22-1936 1908 1911
Cal Dorsett Elk City, Oklahoma 10-22-1970 1940 1947
Hank Wyse Pryor, Oklahoma 10-22-2000 1942 1951
Bob Seeds Erick, Oklahoma 10-28-1993 1930 1940
Tommy Tatum Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 11-07-1989 1941 1947
Denver Grigsby Sapulpa, Oklahoma 11-10-1973 1923 1925
Frank Kellert Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 11-19-1976 1953 1956
Warren Spahn Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 11-24-2003 1942 1965
Cal Emery Tulsa, Oklahoma 11-28-2010 1963 1963
Chad Kimsey Pryor, Oklahoma 12-03-1942 1929 1936
John Bateman Sand Springs, Oklahoma 12-03-1996 1963 1972
Cliff Mapes Pryor, Oklahoma 12-05-1996 1948 1952
Cal Crum Tulsa, Oklahoma 12-07-1945 1917 1918
Walt Dickson Ardmore, Oklahoma 12-09-1918 1910 1915
Charlie Wheatley Tulsa, Oklahoma 12-10-1982 1912 1912
Danny Doyle Stillwater, Oklahoma 12-14-2004 1943 1943
Jim Winford Miami, Oklahoma 12-16-1970 1932 1938
Ona Dodd Carter, Oklahoma 12-17-1956 1912 1912
Allie Reynolds Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 12-26-1994 1942 1954

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Oklahoma


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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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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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