Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Texas / Played in 1918

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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Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Texas / Played in 1918

A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death

Bill Bailey Houston, Texas 11-02-1926 1907 1922
Snipe Conley Robert Lee, Texas 01-05-1978 1914 1918
Jack Coombs Palestine, Texas 04-15-1957 1906 1920
Sam Covington Denison, Texas 01-04-1963 1913 1918
Bert Gallia Devine, Texas 03-19-1976 1912 1920
Tim Hendryx Corpus Christi, Texas 08-14-1957 1911 1921
Ed Konetchy Fort Worth, Texas 05-27-1947 1907 1921
Roy Mitchell Temple, Texas 09-08-1959 1910 1919
Buddy Napier Dallas, Texas 03-29-1968 1912 1921
Del Pratt Texas City, Texas 09-30-1977 1912 1924
Hank Severeid Terrell Hills, Texas 12-17-1968 1911 1926
Frank Snyder San Antonio, Texas 01-05-1962 1912 1927
Tris Speaker Lake Whitney, Texas 12-08-1958 1907 1928
Oscar Tuero Houston, Texas 10-21-1960 1918 1920
George Whiteman Houston, Texas 02-10-1947 1907 1918
Ross Youngs San Antonio, Texas 10-22-1927 1917 1926

Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Texas / Played in 1918

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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 2014 2015
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

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.