Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Puerto Rico

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 Puerto Rico

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Luis Alvarado Lajas, Puerto Rico 03-20-2001 1968 1977
Carlos Bernier Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico 04-06-1989 1953 1953
Ivan Calderon Loiza, Puerto Rico 12-27-2003 1984 1993
Roberto Clemente San Juan, Puerto Rico 12-31-1972 1955 1972
Joe DeSa San Juan, Puerto Rico 12-20-1986 1980 1985
Miguel Fuentes Loiza Aldea, Puerto Rico 01-29-1970 1969 1969
Ruben Gomez Carolina, Puerto Rico 07-26-2004 1953 1967
Julio Gotay Ponce, Puerto Rico 07-04-2008 1960 1969
Ramon Hernandez Carolina, Puerto Rico 02-04-2009 1967 1977
Frankie Libran Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 05-16-2013 1969 1969
Luis Marquez Aguadilla, Puerto Rico 03-01-1988 1951 1954
Orlando McFarlane Ponce, Puerto Rico 07-18-2007 1962 1968
Vic Power Bayamon, Puerto Rico 11-29-2005 1954 1965
Mario Ramirez Yauco, Puerto Rico 02-22-2013 1980 1985
Juan Rios Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 08-28-1995 1969 1969
Eduardo Rodriguez Barceloneta, Puerto Rico 03-06-2009 1973 1979
Carlos Velazquez Loiza, Puerto Rico 03-16-2000 1973 1973

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Puerto Rico



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:
 
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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
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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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