This is a list of baseball players who died during their careers. These

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s occurred during a game, due to illness, results of accidents, acts of violence, or suicide. Repeated studies have shown that

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...

players have a greater

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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

players died during their careers.

Former players of Major League Baseball still active in professional baseball at the time of their death

Minor League Baseball

Minor league players are listed with their major league affiliate team, else denoted with a dagger () if their team was unaffiliated.

Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning ''Professional Baseball''. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation ...

Negro leagues The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

Dutch League Baseball

College baseball College baseball is baseball that is played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education. In comparison to football and basketball, college competition in the United States plays a smaller role in developing professional pl ...

Notes

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List of Major League Baseball players who died in wars This is a list of Major League Baseball players who died in wars. The player's team refers to the last team the person played for. Spanish-American War World War I World War II Of the more than 500 major league players who served in the milit ...

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