Deaths
- March 16 – Art Croft, 29, first baseman and left fielder for 1877 St. Lous and 1878 Indianapolis teams.
- April 29 – John Morrissey, 27, played in 1881 for the Buffalo Bisons.
- July 11 – Bill Smiley, 28?, utility player who played mainly in 1882.
- September 26 – Jim Egan, 26?, pitcher for the 1882 Troy Trojans.
- November 13 – Bill Sullivan, 31, played in 2 games for the 1878 Chicago White Stockings.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)