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