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 Rhode IslandA Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Place of Death |
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Player | Died In | Date of Death | Debut Year | Final Year |
Bill Mellor | Bridgeton, Rhode Island | 11-05-1940 | 1902 | 1902 |
John Hamill | Bristol, Rhode Island | 12-06-1911 | 1884 | 1884 |
Cap Crowell | Central Falls, Rhode Island | 09-30-1962 | 1915 | 1916 |
Guerdon Whiteley | Cranston, Rhode Island | 11-23-1925 | 1884 | 1885 |
Hi Ladd | Cranston, Rhode Island | 05-07-1948 | 1898 | 1898 |
Jack Egan | Cranston, Rhode Island | 12-22-1950 | 1894 | 1894 |
Mike Roarke | Cranston, Rhode Island | 07-27-2019 | 1961 | 1964 |
Dave Stenhouse | Cranston, Rhode Island | 11-11-2023 | 1962 | 1964 |
Jimmy Cooney | Cranston, Rhode Island | 07-01-1903 | 1890 | 1892 |
Ed Conley | Cumberland, Rhode Island | 10-16-1894 | 1884 | 1884 |
John LaRose | Cumberland, Rhode Island | 01-14-2021 | 1978 | 1978 |
Daff Gammons | East Greenwich, Rhode Island | 09-24-1963 | 1901 | 1901 |
Chet Nichols | Lincoln, Rhode Island | 03-27-1995 | 1951 | 1964 |
Joe Trimble | Lincoln, Rhode Island | 08-11-2011 | 1955 | 1957 |
Dick Teed | Newport, Rhode Island | 08-17-2014 | 1953 | 1953 |
Joe Connolly | North Smithfield, Rhode Island | 09-01-1943 | 1913 | 1916 |
Tim McNamara | North Smithfield, Rhode Island | 11-05-1994 | 1922 | 1926 |
Dennis Driscoll | Pawtucket, Rhode Island | 02-21-1901 | 1885 | 1885 |
Charley Bassett | Pawtucket, Rhode Island | 05-28-1942 | 1884 | 1892 |
Chet Nichols | Pawtucket, Rhode Island | 07-11-1982 | 1926 | 1932 |
Bill Vinton | Pawtucket, Rhode Island | 09-03-1893 | 1884 | 1885 |
Pat Maloney | Pawtucket, Rhode Island | 06-27-1979 | 1912 | 1912 |
Paddy Greene | Providence, Rhode Island | 10-20-1934 | 1902 | 1903 |
Art Hagan | Providence, Rhode Island | 03-25-1936 | 1883 | 1884 |
Pat Friel | Providence, Rhode Island | 01-15-1924 | 1890 | 1891 |
John Flynn | Providence, Rhode Island | 03-23-1935 | 1910 | 1912 |
Dinty Gearin | Providence, Rhode Island | 03-11-1959 | 1923 | 1924 |
Tom Lovett | Providence, Rhode Island | 03-19-1928 | 1885 | 1894 |
Joe Flynn | Providence, Rhode Island | 12-22-1933 | 1884 | 1884 |
Martin Flaherty | Providence, Rhode Island | 06-10-1920 | 1881 | 1881 |
Morgan Murphy | Providence, Rhode Island | 10-03-1938 | 1890 | 1901 |
Hal Neubauer | Providence, Rhode Island | 09-09-1949 | 1925 | 1925 |
Pat Duff | Providence, Rhode Island | 09-11-1925 | 1906 | 1906 |
John Doyle | Providence, Rhode Island | 12-24-1915 | 1882 | 1882 |
Jim Connor | Providence, Rhode Island | 09-03-1950 | 1892 | 1899 |
Fred Corey | Providence, Rhode Island | 11-27-1912 | 1878 | 1885 |
Dan Sullivan | Providence, Rhode Island | 10-26-1893 | 1882 | 1886 |
Charlie Reilly | Providence, Rhode Island | 11-04-1904 | 1879 | 1884 |
Charlie Babington | Providence, Rhode Island | 03-22-1957 | 1915 | 1915 |
George Bignell | Providence, Rhode Island | 01-16-1925 | 1884 | 1884 |
Charlie Robinson | Providence, Rhode Island | 05-18-1913 | 1884 | 1885 |
John Cattanach | Providence, Rhode Island | 11-10-1926 | 1884 | 1884 |
Bill Sullivan | Providence, Rhode Island | 10-08-1905 | 1890 | 1890 |
Joe Start | Providence, Rhode Island | 03-27-1927 | 1876 | 1886 |
Wally Snell | Providence, Rhode Island | 07-23-1980 | 1913 | 1913 |
Edgar Smith | Providence, Rhode Island | 11-03-1892 | 1883 | 1890 |
Gus Salve | Providence, Rhode Island | 03-29-1971 | 1908 | 1908 |
Eddie Eayrs | Warwick, Rhode Island | 11-30-1969 | 1913 | 1921 |
Jimmy Cooney | Warwick, Rhode Island | 08-07-1991 | 1917 | 1928 |
John Frill | Westerly, Rhode Island | 09-28-1918 | 1910 | 1912 |
Henri Rondeau | Woonsocket, Rhode Island | 05-28-1943 | 1913 | 1916 |
Pete LePine | Woonsocket, Rhode Island | 12-03-1949 | 1902 | 1902 |
Player | Died In | Date of Death | Debut Year | Final Year |
Major League Baseball Players Who Died in Rhode Island |
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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
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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.