Deaths
- January 12 - Win Mercer, 28, pitcher for four teams from 1894 to 1902, who posted two 20-win seasons and led the National League in games started, shutouts, and saves in the 1897 season.
- January 13 - Pete Conway, 36, pitcher who posted a 61-61 record for four teams from 1885 to 1889.
- February 6 - Hardie Henderson, 40, pitcher who went 81-121 with four teams between 1883 and 1888.
- February 11 - Sam McMackin, pitcher who played with the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers in the 1902 season.
- February 15 - Phil Reccius, 40, played third base for eight seasons, most notably for the Louisville Eclipse/Colonels.
- February 20 - Al Dwight, 47, pitcher for the 1884 Kansas City Cowboys.
- May 2 - Odie Porter, 25, pitcher who played briefly for the 1902 Philadewlphia Athletics.
- May 3 - Count Sensenderfer, 55, played for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1871-1874. Later became a politician.
- May 13 - Thomas Lynch, 40, pitcher who played for the Chicago White Stockings in the 1884 season.
- May 16 - Chicken Wolf, 41, right fielder for 11 years, 10 with the Louisville Colonels.
- June 22 - Fatty Briody, 44, catcher for eight seasons from 1880 to 1888.
- July 1 - Jimmy Cooney, 37, shortstop for the Chicago Colts and Washington Senators National League teams from 1890 to 1892.
- July 2 - Ed Delahanty, 35, slugging left fielder since 1888, a three-time .400 hitter who ranked second only to Cap Anson in career hits; died after falling from a railroad trestle crossing the Niagara River.
- August 1 - Charlie Bohn, 47, outfielder/pitcher who played for the 1882 Louisville Eclipse.
- August 2 - Bill Sweeney, pitcher/outfielder for the 1882 Philadelphia Athletics and the 1884 Baltimore Monumentals.
- August 21 - Andy Leonard, 57, left fielder for the original Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional baseball team.
- October 10 - John Valentine, 47, umpire from 1884 to 1888, who previously pitched for the 1883 Columbus Buckeyes.
- October 22 - Joe Yingling, 36, pitcher for the 1886 Washington Nationals.
- November 5 - Harrison Peppers, 37, pitcher for the Louisville Colonels during the 1894 season.
- November 12 - John Gilbert, 39, shortstop for the 1890 Pittsburgh Alleghenys.
- November 28 - Jack Easton, 38, pitcher who posted a 26-29 record in 76 games for the Columbus Solons, St. Louis Browns, and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1889 to 1894.
- December 30 - Dan Leahy, 33, shortstop for the 1896 Philadelphia Phillies.
- December 31 - Joe McGuckin, 41, outfielder for the 1890 Baltimore Orioles of the American Association.
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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)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)