List of baseball players who died during their careers explained

This is a list of baseball players who died during their careers. While some of these deaths occurred during a game, the majority were the result of accidents off the field, illnesses, acts of violence, or suicide.

Repeated studies have shown that contemporary Major League Baseball players have a greater life expectancy than males in the general U.S. population — about five years more, on average, which is attributed to their superior fitness and healthy lifestyles. The longer the active career, the longer the player lives, on average. This correlation is attributed to the maintenance of fitness and increased wealth.

Deaths of active players

This is a list of notable deaths in baseball and untimely deaths of active professional baseball players.

	Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

Major League Baseball

The following Major League Baseball players died during their careers.

Player	Age	Position	Team	Cause of death	Year	Ref(s)
	22	Pitcher	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	killed by drunk driver	2009	^[1]
	26	First baseman	Boston Red Sox	pulmonary embolism	1955
	28	Pitcher	Milwaukee Brewers	heart attack	1982	^[2]
	23	Pitcher	Baltimore Orioles	complications from use of ephedra	2003	^[3]
	22	Pitcher	Middletown Mansfields	tuberculosis	1873	^[4]
	28	Catcher	Boston Beaneaters	suicide	1900
	26	Pitcher	Chicago Cubs	influenza	1890	^[5]
	31	Third baseman	Boston Braves	automobile crash	1924
	36	Pitcher	Pittsburgh Pirates	appendicitis	1949
	27	Outfielder	California Angels	homicide, gunshot	1978	^[6]
	38	Pitcher	Chicago Cubs	stomach hemorrhage	1930
	23	Shortstop	Washington Senators	purpura hemorrhagia	1906
	29	Shortstop	Cleveland Indians	struck on head by a pitch during a game	1920
	38	Outfielder	Pittsburgh Pirates	plane crash	1972
	29	Pitcher	New York Yankees	lung cancer	1916	^[7]
	28	Second baseman	Brooklyn Dodgers	typhoid fever	1892
	31	Pitcher	Cleveland Indians	boat accident (with Steve Olin)	1993
	28	Catcher	Louisville Colonels	tuberculosis	1888	^[8]
	25	Outfielder	San Diego Padres	automobile crash	2002
	40	First baseman	Cincinnati Reds	appendicitis	1924
	35	Outfielder	Washington Senators	drowned, swept over Niagara Falls	1903
	28	Catcher	St. Louis Cardinals	typhoid fever	1922
	34	Outfielder	Boston Braves	typhoid fever	1907
	30	Third baseman	Chicago Cubs		1912
	27	Pitcher	Chicago White Sox	automobile crash	1970
	25	Pitcher	Philadelphia Quakers	typhoid fever	1888
	24	Pitcher	Miami Marlins	boating accident	2016	^[9] ^[10]
	29	Second baseman	Philadelphia Phillies	duodenal ulcer	1933
	27	Outfielder	Philadelphia Athletics	tuberculosis	1891
	30	Pitcher	Milwaukee Brewers	dune buggy crash	1977
	23	Pitcher	Seattle Pilots	homicide, gunshot	1970
	24	Catcher	Baltimore Orioles	drowning after escaping plane crash wreckage without any injuries	1956	^[11]
	34	Pitcher	Cincinnati Reds	plane crash	1925
	27	Pitcher	Detroit Tigers	diabetes	1915	^[12]
	24	Outfielder	Seattle Mariners	homicide, stabbing	2011	^[13]
	29	Pitcher	St. Louis Cardinals	driving while intoxicated resulting in crash	2007	^[14]
	29	Pitcher	Detroit Tigers	heart attack	1937
	30	Catcher	Cincinnati Reds	suicide	1940
	25	Outfielder		drowned while swimming	1970
	27	Catcher/Outfielder	Brooklyn Atlantics	tuberculosis	1875	^[15]
	22	Second baseman	Chicago Cubs	plane crash	1964
	31	Pitcher	Cleveland Indians	meningitis	1911
	28	Pitcher	Toronto Blue Jays	hypertensive heart disease	2007
	33	Pitcher	St. Louis Cardinals	heart attack	2002
	31	Outfielder	Brooklyn Dodgers	cerebral hemorrhage sustained during a fight on an airplane	1935
	25	Pitcher	Chicago Colts	tuberculosis	1899
	26	Third baseman	Washington Senators	appendicitis	1920
	26	Catcher	Philadelphia Phillies	automobile crash	1929
	34	Pitcher	New York Yankees	plane crash	2006
	30	Pitcher	Louisville Colonels	tuberculosis	1899
	27	Infielder	Chicago Cubs	testicular cancer	1981	^[16]
	27	Outfielder	St. Louis Cardinals	brain tumor	1922
	27	Pitcher		tuberculosis, complicated by injuries sustained in a carriage accident	1901	^[17]
	30	First baseman	Pittsburgh Alleghenys	typhoid fever	1887
	28	Pitcher	Baltimore Orioles	suicide	1894
	28	Pitcher	Detroit Tigers	suicide	1903
	23	Shortstop	California Angels	automobile crash	1977
	26	Catcher	St. Louis Brown Stockings	indeterminate illness	1876	^[18]
	21	Catcher	New York Giants	automobile crash	1942
	29	Pitcher		automobile crash	1976
	32	Pitcher	Boston Red Sox	homicide, stabbing	1932
	32	Catcher	New York Yankees	plane crash	1979
	24	Pitcher	St. Louis Browns	pneumonia	1892
	27	Outfielder	Pittsburgh Pirates	pneumonia	1901
	27	Pitcher	Cleveland Indians	boat accident (with Tim Crews)	1993
	38	Catcher	Philadelphia Athletics	peritonitis arising from surgery complications following an in-game injury	1909
	27	Outfielder	Washington Senators	Bright's disease	1909
	23	Outfielder	Philadelphia A's	drowned while in military training	1918	^[19] ^[20]
	34	Infielder	San Diego Padres	automobile crash	1996	^[21]
	27	Pitcher	Los Angeles Angels	accidental drug overdose	2019	^[22]
	27	Outfielder	Baltimore Orioles	typhoid malaria	1888
	34	Outfielder	Boston Red Sox	suicide by ingestion of carbolic acid	1907	^[23]
	25	Outfielder	Cincinnati Reds	homicide, gunshot	2003
	25	Infielder	Cincinnati Reds	general streptococcus due to empyema	1910	^[24]
	30	Catcher	Baltimore Orioles	Bright's disease	1893	^[25]
	22	Outfielder	St. Louis Cardinals	driving while intoxicated resulting in crash	2014	^[26]
	26	Pitcher	Cincinnati Reds	nephritis	1900
	22	Outfielder	Brooklyn Atlantics	drowned while fishing	1872
	29	Shortstop	Texas Rangers	leukemia	1976	^[27]
	33	Pitcher	Houston Colt .45s	malignant melanoma	1964
	25	Pitcher	Kansas City Royals	automobile crash	2017	^[28]
	25	Pitcher	California Angels	inoperable brain tumor	1965
	22	Outfielder	Cleveland Forest Citys	tuberculosis	1872	^[29]
	29	Pitcher	Houston Astros	carbon monoxide poisoning	1975	^[30]
	29	Pitcher	Cleveland Indians	automobile crash	1993
	30	Outfielder	New York Giants	Bright's disease	1927

Former major-league players still active in professional baseball at the time of their death

Player	Age	Position	Last MLB Team	Last Pro Team	Cause of death	Year	Ref(s)
	25	Third baseman	Baltimore Orioles	Duluth Freezers	drowning	1887
	37	Pitcher	Philadelphia Phillies	Hollywood Stars	cirrhosis	1945	^[31]
	29	Outfielder	Minnesota Twins	Jacksonville Suns	leukemia	1967
	37	Infielder	Houston Astros	Cardenales de Lara	car crash, murdered (with Luis Valbuena)	2018
	31	Shortstop	Houston Astros	Azucareros del Este	car crash	2000
	33	Pitcher	Boston Bees	San Diego Padres	automobile accident	1939	^[32]
	21	Pitcher	San Francisco Giants	Phoenix Giants	plane crash	1969
	28	Pitcher	Philadelphia Athletics	Greensboro Patriots	bus accident	1947	^[33]
	19	Pitcher	Houston Colt .45s	Salisbury Astros	automobile crash	1965
	29	Pitcher	San Francisco Giants	Seibu Lions	car crash	2001
	27	First baseman	Chicago White Sox	Ponce Lions	car crash	1986
	37	Catcher	Cincinnati Reds	Caracas Lions	crushed by a falling satellite dish	1990	^[34]
	27	Third baseman	Cincinnati Reds	Mobile Sea Gulls	hit in the head by a pitch	1916	^[35]
	30	Outfielder	Chicago Cubs	Macoto Cobras	congenital disorder	2005
	34	Pitcher	Baltimore Orioles	San Antonio Missions	homicide, stabbing	1955	^[36]
	32	Pitcher	Texas Rangers	Tigres de Aragua	car crash	2011
	33	Pitcher	Milwaukee Brewers	Yomiuri Giants	lightning strike	2008	^[37]
	34	Pitcher	Philadelphia Phillies	Free agent	car crash	2017	^[38]
	28	Left fielder	St. Louis Cardinals	San Diego Padres	cardiac arrest	1953	^[39]
	29	Pitcher	Los Angeles Angels	Sacramento River Cats	organ failure related to cocaine toxicity	2015	^[40]
	31	Catcher	Brooklyn Dodgers	Spokane Indians		1946	^[41]
	40	Pitcher	Chicago White Sox	Indianapolis Indians	heart attack	1960
	23	Outfielder	St. Louis Browns	Milwaukee Brewers	homicide	1907	^[42]
	31	Outfielder	Philadelphia Phillies	Indianapolis Indians	pneumonia	1908	^[43]
	26	Pitcher	Atlanta Braves	Sioux City Explorers	heart attack and brain aneurysm	2001
	37	Pitcher	New York Mets	Aguilas Cibaenas	heart attack	2010
	33	Infielder	Arizona Diamondbacks	KT Wiz	car crash	2017	^[44]
	39	First baseman	New York Giants	Milwaukee Brewers	suicide, gunshot	1910	^[45]
	31	Pitcher	Los Angeles Angels	Bravos de León	car crash	2024	^[46]
	26	Third baseman	St. Louis Cardinals	Brother Elephants	car crash	1997
	26	Third baseman	Chicago Colts	Dubuque Westerns	tuberculosis	1898
	27	Outfielder	St. Louis Cardinals	Omaha Cardinals	plane crash	1956
	27	Third baseman	Louisville Colonels	Peoria Distillers	"brain fever"	1894	^[47]
	22	Third baseman	Pittsburgh Pirates	Washington Little Senators	typhoid fever	1896
	29	Pitcher	Toronto Blue Jays	AZL Diamondbacks	automobile crash	1999
	33	Infielder	California Angels	Salt Lake City Angels	automobile crash	1972
	27	First baseman	Louisville Colonels	Norwich Witches	unknown	1900
	29	Second baseman	Milwaukee Brewers	Free agent	car crash	1995	^[48]
	33	Infielder	Los Angeles Angels	Cardenales de Lara	car crash, murdered (with José Castillo)	2018	^[49] ^[50]
	28	Relief pitcher	Chicago White Sox	Free agent	all-terrain vehicle crash	2017
	32	Center fielder	Boston Red Sox	Portland Beavers	automobile crash	1929	^[51]

Minor League Baseball

Minor league players are listed with their major league affiliate team, else denoted with a dagger if their team was unaffiliated.

Player	Age	Position	Last team	Organization	Cause of death	Year	Ref(s)
	23	Third baseman	San Francisco Haverlys	—	cardiac arrest	1888	^[52]
	21	Second baseman	Clearwater Threshers	Philadelphia Phillies	car accident	2023	^[53]
	19	Second baseman	Springfield Cardinals	St. Louis Cardinals	struck on the head by a pitch	1933	^[54]
	23	Pitcher	Shreveport Braves	Atlanta Braves	car accident	1970	^[55]
	26	Left fielder		—	struck on the head by a pitch	1906	^[56]
	19	Pitcher	DSL Reds	Cincinnati Reds	automobile crash	2018	^[57]
	24	Infielder	Mobile Bears	New York Mets	automobile crash	1962	^[58]
	24	Outfielder	GCL Pirates	Pittsburgh Pirates	heart defect	2013	^[59]
	23	Pitcher	Decatur Commodores	—	struck on the head by a pitch	1925	^[60]
	—	Outfielder		—	unintentional discharge of firearm	1909	^[61]
	22	Pitcher		—	automobile crash	1951	^[62]
	22	Outfielder	Scottsdale Scorpions	New York Mets	automobile crash	2001	^[63]
	19	Catcher	Twin Falls Cowboys	New York Yankees	struck in the heart by a thrown ball	1951	^[64]
	23	Infielder	Pensacola Blue Wahoos	Minnesota Twins	sudden cardiac arrhythmia	2019	^[65] ^[66]
	24	Pitcher	Inland Empire 66ers	Los Angeles Angels	self-inflicted gunshot wound	2018	^[67] ^[68]
	20	Outfielder	Ballinger Cats	—	struck on the head by a pitch	1947
	23	Shortstop	Winnipeg Maroons	—	struck on the head by a pitch	1938	^[69]
	17	Outfielder	Salem Pirates	Pittsburgh Pirates	brain trauma from in-game outfield collision	1974	^[70]
	28	Pitcher		—	blood poisoning	1902	^[71] ^[72]
	24	Pitcher	York Revolution	—	car crash	2024	^[73]
	21	Pitcher	DSL Orioles	Baltimore Orioles	car crash	2017	^[74]
	—	First baseman	Atlanta Atlantas	—	internal bleeding from a collision on the base path	1885	^[75]
	18	First baseman	Dayton Veterans	—	internal bleeding from a collision on the base path	1904	^[76]
	37	Catcher / Manager		—	pneumonia	1915	^[77]
	—	Outfielder	Oakland Oaks	—		1924	^[78]
	24	Outfielder	Dothan Browns	—	struck on the head by a pitch	1951	^[79]
	22	Pitcher	Fort Myers Miracle	Minnesota Twins	car crash	2016	^[80]
	21	Outfielder	Winston-Salem Red Sox	Boston Red Sox	boat accident	1983	^[81]
	27	Third baseman	Macon Peaches	—	struck in the chest by a pitch	1927	^[82] ^[83]
	20	Catcher	Lynchburg Hillcats	Cleveland Guardians	Multiple Organ Failure	2021	^[84] ^[85]
	21	Pitcher	New Haven Ravens	Colorado Rockies	asthma attack	1997	^[86]
	27	Pitcher	Sacramento River Cats	Oakland Athletics	Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	2016	^[87]
	22	Pitcher		—	cardiac arrest	1903	^[88]
	27	Catcher	Erie SeaWolves	Detroit Tigers	injuries sustained in skateboarding accident	2019	^[89]
	19	Catcher	Marion Cubs	Chicago Cubs	cardiac arrest	1948	^[90]
	20	Relief pitcher	FCL Phillies	Philadelphia Phillies	T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (T-ALL)	2022	^[91] ^[92]
	20	Second baseman		—	struck on the head by a pitch	1909	^[93]
	24	Third baseman		—	automobile crash	1953	^[94]
	25	Pitcher	Springfield Senators	—	cardiac arrest and heat stroke	1926	^[95]
	24	Catcher	Huntington Red Birds	—	struck on the head by a pitch	1935	^[96]
	21	Utility	Fresno Giants	San Francisco Giants	automobile crash	1961	^[97]
	19	Pitcher	Gastonia Rangers	Texas Rangers	cardiomyopathy, Supac use was a contributing factor	1990	^[98]
	20	Pitcher	Leones del Caracas	Seattle Mariners	struck by a boat while swimming	2015
	23	Pitcher	Auburn Doubledays	Washington Nationals	motorcycle crash	2020	^[99]
	22	First baseman	Bakersfield Dodgers	Los Angeles Dodgers	automobile crash	1969	^[100]
	19	Third baseman	Kokomo Wild Cats	—	internal bleeding from a collision on the base path	1909	^[101]
	23	Infielder	Hagerstown Packets	Washington Senators	cardiac arrest	1954	^[102]
	24	Center fielder	Crowley Millers	—	lightning strike during game	1951	^[103]
	21	Second baseman	Superior Blues	—	struck on the head by a pitch	1936	^[104]
	24	Infielder	Arizona League Athletics	Oakland Athletics	painkiller overdose	2017	^[105]
	27	Catcher	Burlington Pathfinders	—	struck on the head by a pitch	1906	^[106]
	—	Pitcher	Canton Terriers	—	struck by automobile	1929	^[107]

Nippon Professional Baseball

Player	Age	Position	Team	Cause of death	Year	Ref(s)
Lou Jackson	33	Outfielder	Sankei Atoms	pancreatic necrosis	1969	^[108]
Hiroyuki Oze	24	Outfielder	Orix Buffaloes	suicide	2010	^[109]
Yūsuke Kinoshita	27	Pitcher	Chunichi Dragons	myocarditis	2021	^[110]

KBO League

Player	Age	Position	Team	Cause of death	Year	Ref(s)
	24	Catcher	OB Bears	Drowning suspected to be suicide	1986	^[111]
	26	Pitcher	Haitai Tigers	car accident	1988	^[112]
	22	Pitcher	Haitai Tigers		1999	^[113]
	22	Outfielder	Doosan Bears	fell down the stairs	2012	^[114]
	24	First baseman	KIA Tigers		2012	^[115]
	24	Infielder	LG Twins	found dead after falling near a parking lot	2013	^[116]
Braulio Lara	30	Pitcher	SK Wyverns	car accident	2019	^[117]
Andy Marte	33	Infielder	KT Wiz	car accident	2017	^[118]
	21	pitcher	Hanwha Eagles	death in a fall from a building	2019	^[119]

Negro leagues

Player	Age	Position	Team	Cause of death	Year	Ref(s)
	23	Outfielder	Cuban Giants	lightning strike	1909	^[120]
	24	Catcher	Stapleton Baseball Club	struck on head by a pitch	1908	^[121]
	28	Catcher	Cuban Giants	cardiac arrest during game	1904	^[122]
	35	Catcher	Homestead Grays	brain tumor and stroke	1947
	21	Catcher	Zulu Cannibal Giants	struck on the throat by a pitch	1937	^[123]
	28	Pitcher	Cuban Stars	hit on the head by a bat during an in-game argument	1922
	34	Pitcher	Memphis Red Sox	homicide, gunshot	1944
	19–20	Catcher	Southern Star Baseball Club	broken neck, struck by a passed ball	1890	^[124]
	26	Catcher	Chicago American Giants	tuberculosis	1930
	32	Infielder	Indianapolis Clowns	cardiac arrest during game	1949
	28	Outfielder	Lincoln Giants	yellow fever	1932
	35	Second baseman / manager	Washington Pilots	heart attack	1932
	34	Pitcher	Philadelphia Giants	cardiac arrest	1908	^[125]
	27	Shortstop	Chicago American Giants	ptomaine poisoning	1931

College baseball

Player	Age	Position	Team	Cause of death	Year	Ref(s)
	20	Pitcher	George Mason	blood clot from complications from Tommy John surgery	2021	^[126]
	17	Second baseman	Gettysburg	struck on head by a pitch	1926	^[127]
	21	Middle infielder	Keiser	homicide, gunshot	2020	^[128]
	22	Catcher	East Central	homicide, gunshot	2013	^[129]
	19	unknown	Howard County JC	electrocuted while erecting a foul pole that fell on a powerline	1953	^[130]
	22	Pitcher / Outfielder	Vanderbilt	automobile crash	1973	^[131]
	19	Pitcher	Vanderbilt	drowned	2016	^[132]
	20	Catcher	Appalachian State	struck on head by a pitch	1964	^[133]
	18	unknown	Arkansas Cumberland	struck on head by a pitch	1908	^[134]
	—	Second baseman	Monmouth	cerebral hemorrhage, collided with a teammate	1896	^[135]
	19	Right fielder	Louisiana State	struck on head by a pitch	1908	^[136]
	21	First baseman	West Virginia	struck on head by a pitch	1923	^[137]
	18	unknown	Howard County JC	electrocuted while erecting a foul pole that fell on a powerline	1953
	19	Pitcher	Bradley	automobile crash	1989	^[138]
	19	unknown	St. John's (Kansas)	struck on head by a pitch	1950	^[139]

See also

• Jim Creighton - Brooklyn Excelsiors's second baseman and superstar pitcher of the amateur era who died aged 21 of a ruptured abdominal hernia caused by the force of his own pitch in 1862.
• Lou Gehrig - New York Yankees's first baseman who was forced into retirement after being diagnosed with ALS, he would ultimately die from the disease, two years later in 1941.
• Sportspeople who died during their careers
• List of Major League Baseball players who died in wars

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68. Web site: Mike Trout, Angels organization still reeling from death of Aaron Cox. August 26, 2018. Los Angeles Times.
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74. 21-year-old Orioles prospect dies in car accident. Dan. Gartland. Sports Illustrated.
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81. Pearlman . Jeff . Tragedy at sea brings back chilling memories of Anthony Latham . Sports Illustrated . ABG-SI LLC . 21 October 2019.
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84. News: Bell . Mandy . Guardians prospect Meléndez dies at 20 . 14 January 2022 . . 16 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211220060558/https://www.mlb.com/news/andres-melendez-guardians-prospect-dies . 20 December 2021 . live . en.
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