Deaths
- January 23 - William Matthews, 68, pitcher for the 1909 Boston Red Sox
- January 29 - Ed Merrill, 85, second baseman who played in two seasons, 1882 and 1884.
- March 16 - John Kerin, 71, American League umpire from 1908 to 1910
- March 28 - Cumberland Posey, 55, owner of the Negro Leagues' Homestead Grays since the 1920 who built the team into a perennial power; previously an outfielder and manager
- April 4 - Harry Cross, 64, sportswriter for several New York newspapers since 1909
- April 5 - Wally Rehg, 57, right fielder for the Boston Red Sox, Boston Braves and Cincinnati Reds between 1912 and 1919, later a minor league player and manager from 1910 to 1930
- May 19 - John K. Tener, 82, president of the National League from 1913 to 1918; won 25 games as pitcher from 1888–1890
- May 30 - Billy Earle, 78, catcher for five seasons, and five teams from 1889 to 1894.
- June 17 - James Isaminger, 65, sportswriter for Philadelphia newspapers from 1905 to 1940 who played a major role in breaking the story of the Black Sox scandal
- August 6 - Tony Lazzeri, 42, All-Star second baseman for the New York Yankees who batted .300 five times and had seven 100-RBI seasons; had two grand slams and 11 RBI in a 1936 game, and batted .400 in 1937 World Series
- October 4 - John Woods, 48, relief pitcher who played for the 1924 Boston Red Sox
- November 5 - Alejandro Oms, 51, Cuban center fielder of the Negro Leagues
- November 27 - Arlie Tarbert, 42, reserve outfielder for the 1927-28 Boston Red Sox
- December 10 - Walter Johnson, 59, Hall of Fame pitcher for the Washington Senators who won over 400 games, second only to Cy Young, earned MVP awards in 1913 and 1924, and recorded 3508 strikeouts and 110 shutouts, both easily records; posted career 2.17 ERA and won 20 games 12 times, including 30-win seasons in 1912-13; led AL in strikeouts twelve times, ERA five times; won 38 1-0 games, also losing 26 by same score
- December 10 - Walter Moser, 65, pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns between 1906 and 1911.
- December 10 - Damon Runyon, 62, famed New York sportswriter and author
- December 14 - Tom Dowse, 80, catcher/outfielder who played in the 1890s for the Spiders, Solons, Colonels, Reds, Phillies and Senators
- December 21 - Bill Evans, 53, pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1916 to 1919
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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)
“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)