Major League Baseball Players Who Died in New York / Played in 1913

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 New York / Played in 1913

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Willie Adams Albany, New York 06-18-1937 1912 1919
Hugh Bedient Jamestown, New York 07-21-1965 1912 1915
Sandy Burk Brooklyn, New York 10-11-1934 1910 1915
George Burns Gloversville, New York 08-15-1966 1911 1925
Ray Caldwell Salamanca, New York 08-17-1967 1910 1921
George Chalmers Bronx, New York 08-05-1960 1910 1916
Ray Chapman New York, New York 08-17-1920 1912 1920
Tommy Clarke Corona, New York 08-14-1945 1909 1918
Ensign Cottrell Syracuse, New York 02-27-1947 1911 1915
George Davis Buffalo, New York 06-04-1961 1912 1915
Red Dooin Rochester, New York 05-14-1952 1902 1916
Larry Doyle Saranac Lake, New York 03-01-1974 1907 1920
Tex Erwin Rochester, New York 04-05-1953 1907 1914
Joe Evers Albany, New York 01-04-1949 1913 1913
Johnny Evers Albany, New York 03-28-1947 1902 1929
Jim Hanley Elmhurst, New York 05-01-1961 1913 1913
Harry Harper New York, New York 04-23-1963 1913 1923
Les Hennessey New York, New York 11-20-1976 1913 1913
Miller Huggins New York, New York 09-25-1929 1904 1916
Joe Lake Brooklyn, New York 06-30-1950 1908 1913
Rabbit Maranville New York, New York 01-05-1954 1912 1935
Christy Mathewson Saranac Lake, New York 10-07-1925 1900 1916
Wickey McAvoy Rochester, New York 07-06-1973 1913 1919
Ed McDonald Albany, New York 03-11-1946 1911 1913
Marty McHale Hempstead, New York 05-07-1979 1910 1916
Dots Miller Saranac Lake, New York 09-05-1923 1909 1921
Otto Miller Brooklyn, New York 03-29-1962 1910 1922
Herbie Moran Clarkson, New York 09-21-1954 1908 1915
Monte Peffer New York, New York 09-27-1941 1913 1913
Herb Pennock New York, New York 01-30-1948 1912 1934
Pepper Peploski New York, New York 07-13-1972 1913 1913
Ed Phelps East Greenbush, New York 01-31-1942 1902 1913
Ed Reulbach Glens Falls, New York 07-17-1961 1905 1917
Ed Reulbach Glens Falls, New York 07-17-1961 1905 1917
Dick Rudolph Bronx, New York 10-20-1949 1910 1927
Germany Schaefer Saranac Lake, New York 05-16-1919 1901 1918
Cy Seymour New York, New York 09-20-1919 1896 1913
Bob Shawkey Syracuse, New York 12-31-1980 1913 1927
Joe Smith Yonkers, New York 01-12-1974 1913 1913
Heinie Wagner New Rochelle, New York 03-20-1943 1902 1918
Jimmy Walsh Syracuse, New York 07-03-1962 1912 1917
Hooks Wiltse Long Beach, New York 01-21-1959 1904 1915
George Young Brightwaters, New York 03-13-1950 1913 1913
Heinie Zimmerman New York, New York 03-14-1969 1907 1919

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in New York / Played in 1913



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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