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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in North Carolina / Played in 1955
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 |
| Jim Pearce |
Raleigh, North Carolina |
07-17-2005 |
1949 |
1955 |
| Bill Bell |
Durham, North Carolina |
10-11-1962 |
1952 |
1955 |
| Ewell Blackwell |
Hendersonville, North Carolina |
10-29-1996 |
1942 |
1955 |
| Van Fletcher |
Yadkinville, North Carolina |
03-17-2010 |
1955 |
1955 |
| Bunky Stewart |
Wilmington, North Carolina |
10-03-2007 |
1952 |
1956 |
| Ben Flowers |
Wilson, North Carolina |
02-18-2009 |
1951 |
1956 |
| Ben Flowers |
Wilson, North Carolina |
02-18-2009 |
1951 |
1956 |
| Sonny Dixon |
Charlotte, North Carolina |
11-19-2011 |
1953 |
1956 |
| Tom Alston |
Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
12-30-1993 |
1954 |
1957 |
| Dave Jolly |
Durham, North Carolina |
05-27-1963 |
1953 |
1957 |
| Tommy Byrne |
Wake Forest, North Carolina |
12-20-2007 |
1943 |
1957 |
| Rube Walker |
Morganton, North Carolina |
12-12-1992 |
1948 |
1958 |
| Bob Porterfield |
Charlotte, North Carolina |
04-28-1980 |
1948 |
1959 |
| Enos Slaughter |
Durham, North Carolina |
08-12-2002 |
1938 |
1959 |
| Enos Slaughter |
Durham, North Carolina |
08-12-2002 |
1938 |
1959 |
| Smoky Burgess |
Asheville, North Carolina |
09-15-1991 |
1949 |
1967 |
| Smoky Burgess |
Asheville, North Carolina |
09-15-1991 |
1949 |
1967 |
| Ted Abernathy |
Gastonia, North Carolina |
12-16-2004 |
1955 |
1972 |
| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in North Carolina / Played in 1955
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