Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Nevada

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 Nevada

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Art Sunday Reno, Nevada 10-02-1926 1890 1890
Hardin Barry Carson City, Nevada 11-05-1969 1912 1912
Chuck Wortman Las Vegas, Nevada 08-19-1977 1916 1918
Ollie O'Mara Reno, Nevada 10-24-1989 1912 1919
Harry Thompson Reno, Nevada 02-14-1951 1919 1919
Danny Claire Las Vegas, Nevada 01-07-1956 1920 1920
John Russell Ely, Nevada 11-19-1930 1917 1922
Bud Morse Sparks, Nevada 04-06-1987 1929 1929
Wally Shaner Las Vegas, Nevada 11-13-1992 1923 1929
Archie Campbell Sparks, Nevada 12-22-1989 1928 1930
Gene Robertson Fallon, Nevada 10-21-1981 1919 1930
Bob Boken Las Vegas, Nevada 10-06-1988 1933 1934
Newt Kimball Las Vegas, Nevada 03-22-2001 1937 1943
Bill Fleming Reno, Nevada 06-04-2006 1940 1946
Emmett O'Neill Sparks, Nevada 10-11-1993 1943 1946
Ed Chandler Las Vegas, Nevada 07-06-2003 1947 1947
Dizzy Dean Reno, Nevada 07-17-1974 1930 1947
Dick Strahs Las Vegas, Nevada 05-26-1988 1954 1954
Karl Olson Reno, Nevada 12-25-2010 1951 1957
Dusty Rhodes Las Vegas, Nevada 06-17-2009 1952 1959
Lou Berberet Las Vegas, Nevada 04-06-2004 1954 1960
Mike Krsnich Mesquite, Nevada 04-30-2011 1960 1962
Howie Goss Reno, Nevada 07-31-1996 1962 1963
Dick Williams Las Vegas, Nevada 07-07-2011 1951 1964
Charley Smith Reno, Nevada 11-29-1994 1960 1969
Bo Belinsky Las Vegas, Nevada 11-23-2001 1962 1970
Steve Barber Henderson, Nevada 02-04-2007 1960 1974
Bill Robinson Las Vegas, Nevada 07-29-2007 1966 1983
Rod Scurry Reno, Nevada 11-05-1992 1980 1988
Russ Swan Las Vegas, Nevada 04-26-2006 1989 1994
Mike Sharperson Las Vegas, Nevada 05-26-1996 1987 1995

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Nevada



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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