Deaths
- January 2 - Kid Gleason, 66, who won 138 games as a pitcher and was second baseman for four teams from 1895–1906, twice batting .300; won AL pennant as rookie manager of White Sox in 1919, then watched as team threw World Series
- January 4 - Hal Deviney, 39, pitched for the 1920 Boston Red Sox
- January 31 - Beany Jacobson, 51, pitcher for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns and Boston Americans in the 1900s (decade)
- March 20 - Dan Burke, 64, catcher/outfielder who played from 1890 to 1892 for the Rochester Broncos, Syracuse Stars and Boston Beaneaters
- April 23 - Tim Keefe, 76, pitcher who won over 340 games, including six 30-win campaigns for the New York Metropolitans and Giants from 1883–88, with 40-win seasons in 1883 and 1886; led league in ERA three times and strikeouts twice, with career strikeout mark (2500+) being record until 1908; won 19 straight in 1888, leading Giants to first pennant, and was 4-0 with 0.51 ERA in championship series
- May 19 - Wes Curry, 73, umpire for six seasons between 1885 and 1898 who also pitched two games in 1884
- May 24 - Phonney Martin, 87, player and manager for the 1872 Brooklyn Eckfords, also played for the 1872 Troy Trojans, and 1873 New York Mutuals.
- June 3 - Jack O'Brien, 60, outfielder for four clubs, and the first player to pinch-hit in World Series history, as a member of the 1903 Boston Americans
- June 13 - Gat Stires, 83, outfielder for the Rockford Forest Citys 1868 to 1871.
- July 23 - Rip Williams, 51, versatile utility who appeared in 498 games for the Red Sox, Senators and Indians between 1911 and 1918
- September 13 - Bill Brennan, 52, Umpire in the National League and Federal League
- September 16 - George Gore, 76, center fielder for the White Stockings and Giants who batted .301 lifetime and won 1880 batting title; led NL in walks three times and runs twice, and upon retirement was fifth all-time in runs and second in walks
- September 25 - Ring Lardner, 48, sportswriter for various newspapers, mainly in Chicago, since 1907; pioneered the satirical cynic's view of sports reporting
- October 5 - William Veeck, Sr., 55, president of the Cubs since 1919; previously a sportswriter
- October 10 - Joe Kostal, 57, pitched two games for the 1896 Louisville Colonels.
- October 13 - Al Mannassau, 67, Umpire in the National League, American League, and the Federal League
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)