List of baseball players who died during their careers

This is a list of baseball players who died during their careers. While some of these deaths occurred during a game, the majority were the result of accidents off the field, illnesses, acts of violence, or suicide.

Repeated studies have shown that contemporary Major League Baseball players have a greater life expectancy than males in the general U.S. population — about five years more, on average, which is attributed to their superior fitness and healthy lifestyles. The longer the active career, the longer the player lives, on average. This correlation is attributed to the maintenance of fitness and increased wealth.

Deaths of active players

This is a list of notable deaths in baseball and untimely deaths of active professional baseball players.

Major League Baseball

The following Major League Baseball players died during their careers.

Former major-league players still active in professional baseball at the time of their death

Minor League Baseball

Players in this section did not play above the Minor League Baseball level; they are listed with their final minor-league team along with its major-league affiliation, if any.

Nippon Professional Baseball

KBO League

Negro leagues

Dutch League Baseball

College baseball

See also

• Jim Creighton - Brooklyn Excelsiors's second baseman and superstar pitcher of the amateur era who died aged 21 of a ruptured abdominal hernia caused by the force of his own pitch in 1862.
• Lou Gehrig - New York Yankees's first baseman who was forced into retirement after being diagnosed with ALS, he would ultimately die from the disease, two years later in 1941.
• Sportspeople who died during their careers
• List of Major League Baseball players who died in wars

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