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Found some info on these three deaths:
Bob Miller from Wikipedia:
He was the pitching coach for the San Francisco Giants in 1985, but after the team ended the season with 99 losses, the team fired the entire coaching staff, offering Miller a position as pitching coach with the team's top minor league affiliates. Miller spent time as a scout, evaluating prospective pitchers for the Giants.
Miller, then an advance scout for the Giants, died of injuries sustained in a collision with another car in Rancho Bernardo, California. He was driving with his mother, who was left in serious condition from the accident.
Randy Bobb from Wikipedia:
Bobb was again called up to the majors in September 1969 as the Cubs were undergoing an historic collapse that would see them lose the division title to the New York Mets. Bobb appeared in three games, going 0-for-2 at the plate. Before the 1970 season, the Cubs traded him to the Mets for 32-year-old catcher J.C. Martin, who would go on to be the Cubs' backup backstop for the next three years. Despite just being 21 years of age, Bobb never returned to the major leagues.
Bobb died June 13, 1982 in Carnelian Bay, California of a ruptured aorta following a car accident.
parts of Jerry May's June 30, 1996, NY Times obit:
May, 52, was killed when a rotary brush cutter fell on him at his Augusta County farm. May had jacked up the brush cutter to remove some wire that had become entangled in the blades...A small hydraulic jack slipped while May was working under the machine, and it fell on his neck and chest.
Similar to Mark Fidrych's death. I also found it interesting that Jerry May caught Dock Elllis' infamous LSD no hitter. He was the catcher that used colored tape on his fingers so Ellis could read the signs. Both part time Mets, the pitching battery for a famous no hitter, both died young.
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