Deaths
- February 10 – Al Hall, age unknown, center fielder for the 1879 Troy Trojans.
- February 12 – Nealy Phelps, 44, played 12 career games over 5 seasons for 3 teams in 2 leagues.
- March 13 – Herman Dehlman, 32?, first baseman for Brooklyn and St. Louis teams in the National Association who led league in walks in 1875.
- May 19 – Lew Carl, 49?, appeared in one game for the 1874 Baltimore Canaries.
- August 12 – Dick Cramer, age unknown, played 2 games for the 1883 New York Gothams.
- November 30 – Dan Cronin, 28, played 2 games in the Union Association in 1884.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)