Deaths
- January 15 - Jimmy Sheckard, 68, left fielder and leadoff hitter, most notably for the Chicago Cubs
- January 20 - Josh Gibson, 35, star catcher of the Negro Leagues
- January 31 - Johnny Kling, 71, catcher for the Chicago Cubs champions of the late 1900s (decade)
- February 10 – George Whiteman, 64, outfielder for the 1918 Boston Red Sox World Champions
- February 24 - Jack Glasscock, 89, brilliant fielding shortstop of the 19th century, and the sixth player to make 2000 hits
- March 28 – Johnny Evers, 65, Hall of Fame second baseman remembered for his work at the center of the Chicago Cubs' double play combination of Tinker, Evers and Chance, later the NL's MVP with the 1914 "Miracle Braves"
- April 2 - Charlie Jones, 72, a fine defensive outfielder with a strong arm, who played for the Boston Americans, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators and St. Louis Browns between 1901 and 1908
- April 12 - Tom Sullivan, 87, pitcher for four seasons from 1884 to 1889.
- May 18 - Hal Chase, 64, star first baseman, an outstanding fielder, who was barred from baseball after a reputed long history of fixing games
- July 7 - Dick Egan, infielder for the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves from 1908 through 1916
- July 8 - William G. Bramham, 72, president of the minor leagues from 1932 to 1946
- July 30 - Ed Seward, 80, won 35 games for the 1888 Philadelphia Athletics, and led the league in shutouts and strikeouts.
- August 3 - Vic Willis, 71, 8-time winner of 20 games
- August 21 - King Brady, 66, who pitched with the Phillies, Pirates, and for the Red Sox and Braves Boston teams between 1905 and 1912
- September 8 - Ralph Pond, 59, outfielder who appeared in one game for the 1910 Boston Red Sox
- November 14 - Jack Hoey, 66, outfielder for the Boston Americans/Red Sox in the 1900s (decade)
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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)
“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)
“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)