Murders
Baseball Notables Who Have Been Murdered

1891: Frank Bell (27)....................Shot By A Bartender After A Game Of Cards

1895: Frank Bowes (29)....................Shot

1897: Fleury Sullivan (34)....................Shot During A Political Argument

1898: Mother Watson (33)....................Shot

1899: Samuel White (?) (Minor League Umpire)....................Hit Over The Head With A Bat By A Player

1900: Mox McQuery (38)....................Shot By A Thug While Serving With the Covington, KY Police

1901: Ora Jennings (?)....................See "Sam White"

1902: Johnny Ryan (50)....................A Philadelphia Policeman, He Was Kicked To Death While Making An Arrest

1907: Pat Hynes (23)....................Shot On His 23rd Birthday By A Bartender Over A Credit Dispute

1911: George Craig (23)....................Shot By A Burglar

1912: Bugs Raymond (30)....................Fractured Skull / Hit By A Baseball Bat

1913: Jerry Harrington (43)....................Fracturd Skull From A Barroom Brawl While Serving As The Assistant Chief Of Police of Keokuk, Iowa

1914: Charlie Weber (45)....................Shot to death in an argument while eating dinner

1916: Ed Irvin (33)....................Thrown Through a Saloon Window

1921: Larry McLean (39)....................Shot by a Bartender During A Barroom Brawl

1922: Chief Johnson (36)....................Found Shot to Death

1923: Frank McManus (47)....................Found Murdered In Bed In Syracuse, New York

1924: Dolly Stark (39)....................Shot

1924: Bill Wilson (56)....................Stabbed (Possible Gangland Hit)

1932: Ed Morris (32)....................Stabbed

1935: Len Koenecke (31)....................Battered With A Fire Extinguisher In A Plane By A Member Of The Crew

1935: Ray Treadway (27)....................Shot

1938: Mike Donovan (56)....................Shot By A Fellow Employee At Work

1939: Rube Wilson (45) (Charlotte: Sally League)....................Shotgunned By A Drunken Farmhand

1941: Ed Pitts (30) (Albany, IL / York-Trenton, NYPL / Winston-Salem, PIED / Hickory, TARH)....................Stabbed in a Saloon Fight

1942: Gordon McNaughton (32)....................Shot By A Jealous Ex-Girlfriend In A Chicago Hotel

1945: Frank Grube (40)....................Mistakenly Shot After An Argument Inside His Basement

1951: Phil Cockrell (52) (Former Negro Leaguer)....................Stabbed On A Philadelphia Street

1952: Hi Bithorn (35)....................Shot By A Cop In Mexico On New Years Day

1955: Howie Fox (34)....................Stabbed In A Bar Fight

1967: Eloy Gutierrez (Catcher / Veracruz: Mexican League)....................Shot During A Brawl

1969: Tim McKeithan (62)....................Shot

1970: Mickey Fuentes (23)....................Shot In A Bar Fight In His Hometown In P.R.

1974: Bob Baird (34)....................Shot During A Quarrel With A Woman

1978: Lyman Bostock (27)....................Shot

1979: Luke Easter (63)....................Shot By Two Robbers During A Payroll Robbery

1979: Bob Schultz (55)....................Gunned Down In A Bar

1984: Ted Page (81) (Former Negro League Player....................Beaten During A Robbery Of His Home

1988: Luis Marquez (62)....................Shot During A Family Argument

1990: Tony Solaita (43)....................Shot Over A Land Dispute

1994: Sam Parrilla (50)....................Shot

1995: Gus Polidor (33)....................Murdered By Drug Dealers During A Robbery

1995: Dave Shotkowski (30) (Braves Replacement Player)....................Shot During A Robbery

1997: Don O'Riley (52)....................Shot During A Hold-Up

2003: Ivan Calderon (41) ....................Shot In A Convience Store During An Apparent Underworld Hit

2003: Dernell Stensen (25) ....................Shot And Run Over During A Robbery/Car Jacking

2011: Greg Halman (24)....................Stabbed by his own brother

2012: Danny Clyburn (37)....................Shot

2012: Pascual Perez (55)....................Stabbed during a home invasion in the Dominican Republic

2013: Jerinson Tatis (18) (Athletics Minor Leaguer)....................Shot over a drug deal in Palmar Arriba, Dominican Republic

2013: Rod Craig (55)....................Stabbed during a street altercation in Los Angeles

2015: Darryl Hamilton (50)....................Shot to death by his wife in a murder/suicide

2016: John Barfield (51)....................Shot by his girlfriends ex-husband

2016: Alexander Figueredo (20) (Yankees Minor Leaguer)....................Multiple gun shot wounds

2020: Narcisco Elvira (52)....................Shot along with his son during a possible kidnapping in Veracruz, Mexico