1940 in Baseball - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 3 - Parke Swartzel, 74, pitcher for the 1889 Kansas City Cowboys.
  • February 13 - Walter Barnes, 79, sports editor for several Boston newspapers from 1891 to 1933 who was that city's first regular sports columnist
  • February 15 - Chick Fulmer, 89, shortstop for 11 seasons from 1871 to 1884.
  • February 15 - Ray Morgan, 50, second baseman who was part of a stellar double play combo along with shortstop George McBride for the Washington Senators from 1911 through 1918.
  • March 2 - Matt Kilroy, 73, pitcher who holds the all-time strikeout record of 513, in 1886. Won 46 games in 1887, and led the league in games pitched twice, games started twice, complete games three times, and innings pitched once.
  • May 5 - Bill Wise, 79, pitcher/outfielder for three seasons from 1882 to 1886.
  • June 1 - Logan Drake, 40, relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians from 1922 to 1924
  • July 20 - Red Ehret, 71, pitcher for 11 seasons from 1888 to 1898.
  • August 21 - Ernest Thayer, 77, newspaper editor whose 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat" became a staple of baseball culture
  • October 17 - George Davis, 70, shortstop for the Giants and White Sox who set records for career hits (2600+) and RBI (1437) by a switch-hitter, and ranked third in total games upon retirement; batted .308 in 1906 World Series as White Sox upset Cubs
  • November 4 - George Bird, 90, outfielder for the 1871 Rockford Forest Citys.
  • November 12 - Joe Quinn, 75, second baseman who played 17 seasons. From 1884 to 1901, he played in 1768 games and had 1797 hits.
  • December 15 or 16 - Billy Hamilton, 74, center fielder and leadoff hitter for Philadelphia and Boston who batted .344 lifetime, winning two batting titles; led NL in runs four times and in walks and steals five times each; had eleven 100-run seasons including record 192 in 1894, and his 1690 career runs - over one per game - ranked second in history upon retirement; batted .343 and .369 for 1897-98 Boston champions
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    “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)

    “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)

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