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

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death
Don Fisher Mayfield Heights, Ohio 07-29-1973 1945 1945
Ernie Kish Kirtland, Ohio 12-21-1993 1945 1945
Nick Goulish Youngstown, Ohio 05-15-1984 1944 1945
Vince Shupe Canton, Ohio 04-05-1962 1945 1945
Earl Henry Zanesville, Ohio 12-10-2002 1944 1945
Dick Kimble Toledo, Ohio 05-07-2001 1945 1945
Bob Whitcher Akron, Ohio 05-08-1997 1945 1945
Bob Rothel Huron, Ohio 03-21-1984 1945 1945
Paul O'Dea Cleveland, Ohio 12-11-1978 1944 1945
Elmer Weingartner Elyria, Ohio 03-15-2009 1945 1945
Oscar Grimes Westlake, Ohio 05-19-1993 1938 1946
Red Ruffing Mayfield Heights, Ohio 02-17-1986 1924 1947
Mel Harder Chardon, Ohio 10-20-2002 1928 1947
Hank Ruszkowski Cleveland, Ohio 05-31-2000 1944 1947
Don Black Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 04-21-1959 1943 1948
Claude Corbitt Cincinnati, Ohio 05-01-1978 1945 1949
Cliff Fannin Sandusky, Ohio 12-11-1966 1945 1952
Floyd Baker Youngstown, Ohio 11-16-2004 1943 1955
Bob Feller Cleveland, Ohio 12-15-2010 1936 1956

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Ohio / 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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