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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1939
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 |
| Russ Bauers |
Hines, Illinois |
01-21-1995 |
1936 |
1950 |
| Boom-Boom Beck |
Champaign, Illinois |
05-07-1987 |
1924 |
1945 |
| Lou Boudreau |
Olympia Fields, Illinois |
08-10-2001 |
1938 |
1952 |
| Bill Cox |
Charleston, Illinois |
02-16-1988 |
1936 |
1940 |
| Johnny Dickshot |
Waukegan, Illinois |
11-04-1997 |
1936 |
1945 |
| Nick Etten |
Hinsdale, Illinois |
10-18-1990 |
1938 |
1947 |
| Joe Grace |
Murphysboro, Illinois |
09-18-1969 |
1938 |
1947 |
| Sig Gryska |
Hines, Illinois |
08-27-1994 |
1938 |
1939 |
| Stan Hack |
Dixon, Illinois |
12-15-1979 |
1932 |
1947 |
| Gabby Hartnett |
Park Ridge, Illinois |
12-20-1972 |
1922 |
1941 |
| Ira Hutchinson |
Chicago, Illinois |
08-21-1973 |
1933 |
1945 |
| Art Jorgens |
Wilmette, Illinois |
03-01-1980 |
1929 |
1939 |
| Mike Kreevich |
Pana, Illinois |
04-25-1994 |
1931 |
1945 |
| Dutch Leonard |
Springfield, Illinois |
04-17-1983 |
1933 |
1953 |
| Phil Masi |
Mt. Prospect, Illinois |
03-29-1990 |
1939 |
1952 |
| Johnny McCarthy |
Mundelein, Illinois |
09-13-1973 |
1934 |
1948 |
| Wally Millies |
Oak Lawn, Illinois |
02-28-1995 |
1934 |
1941 |
| Terry Moore |
Collinsville, Illinois |
03-29-1995 |
1935 |
1948 |
| Vern Olsen |
Maywood, Illinois |
07-13-1989 |
1939 |
1946 |
| Fritz Ostermueller |
Quincy, Illinois |
12-17-1957 |
1934 |
1948 |
| Nels Potter |
Mt. Morris, Illinois |
09-30-1990 |
1936 |
1949 |
| Ewald Pyle |
DuQuoin, Illinois |
01-10-2004 |
1939 |
1945 |
| Hal Quick |
Swansea, Illinois |
03-09-1974 |
1939 |
1939 |
| Johnny Rigney |
Lombard, Illinois |
10-21-1984 |
1937 |
1947 |
| George Scharein |
Decatur, Illinois |
12-23-1981 |
1937 |
1940 |
| Norm Schlueter |
Belleville, Illinois |
10-06-2004 |
1938 |
1944 |
| Tom Sunkel |
Paris, Illinois |
04-06-2002 |
1937 |
1944 |
| Dizzy Trout |
Harvey, Illinois |
02-28-1972 |
1939 |
1957 |
| Bob Weiland |
Chicago, Illinois |
11-09-1988 |
1928 |
1940 |
| Player |
Died In |
Date of Death |
Debut Year |
Final Year |
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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Illinois / Played in 1939
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