If you have ever wondered what month most ballplayers passed away in, or if you enjoy reading
baseball obituaries, then Baseball Almanac suggests you visit our Baseball Player Obituaries & Death by Month Chart.
Baseball Almanac is aware that researching baseball players by their place of death is common
data found easily on the Internet today. We, as you are well aware, enjoy taking that extra step here
and have taken that common data and added this amazing chart which will enable you to see a historical
breakdown of players from any given year in history by their place of death:
Did you know that Frank Ringo was the first Major
League baseball player to committ suicide? On April 12, 1889, he ingested a lethal dose of morphine, died
of the drug overdose, and became the first baseball suicide
in history.