Baseball Passings 2024

[Frayed Knot]

Papa Jeff Burroughs still living at just 73, so he could be around for a long while still.


I remember Sean as a top prospect right around the time the internet was making it easier to discover and track top prospects.
He was going to be the BA & OBA guy who would buck the trend of Power! Power! Power! that was dominating in the late '90s/early 2000's
But then his BA & OBA turned out to be nothing special all while he managed to knock just 12 career HRs in about three full seasons' worth
of ML ABs scattered across seven different years.

Jeez, 43!?!

[Cowtipper]

Joe Shipley:

https://www.baue.com/obituaries/joseph-shipley

Dave McCarty:

https://people.com/dave-mccarty-former- ... 54-8636541

Tom Tischinski:

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituar ... i-11782337

[Cowtipper]

Cuno Barragan:

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/high-scho ... 50829.html

Buzz Stephen:

https://www.recorderonline.com/gallery/ ... a77ee.html

Mike Wegener:

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituar ... r-11577285

[Cowtipper]

Danny Fife:

https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/ ... at-74.html

Tony Scott:

https://www.mlb.com/news/former-mlb-pla ... scott-dies

John Upham:

https://cooperstownersincanada.com/2024 ... ies-at-83/

Hank Foiles:

https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/06/04/ ... r-leagues/

[G-Fafif]

Maria Leiter, mom of Al, 97.

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/pe ... 036497007/

[Edgy MD]

Raise a glass to mark the passing of longtime MLB player and coach Mike Brumley who was killed over the weekend in a massive car wreck in Mississippi.

Mike was a classic punchless utility infielder but in 1987 hit the first of his three career homers off of Ron Darling.

[G-Fafif]

Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, 86.

[Edgy MD]

The first great home-born San Francisco Giant, arriving the first season after they moved west and a year before McCovey, winning Rookie of the Year.

What a heart of the order with him, Mays, and McCovey, but the Giants couldn't make it work because he and McCovey both fit best at first, and even if they did succeed in hiding one in left, they kept producing guys who were really good in the outfield, many of them named Alou.

His father was a great player too, but the integration came too late for him to show his stuff in MLB.

[Cowtipper]

Gordy Lund:

https://www.friedrichsfh.com/obituaries ... d=31561390

Johnny Jeter:

https://www.goodsamaritanfuneralhome.co ... hnny-jeter

Jimmy Hurst:

https://patch.com/alabama/tuscaloosa/tu ... st-dead-52

[Frayed Knot]

Gordy Lund

Only 46 ML ABs, 38 of which came with the Seattle Pilots thus reducing the surviving Pilots by one.

[Frayed Knot]

Sean Burroughs, 43.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/05/ ... -away.html

"Accidental Fentanyl Intoxication" is being cited as cause of death.

[Edgy MD]

Gosh, that raises as many questions as it answers.

[Edgy MD]

Sean Burroughs comes from the Little League World Series to New York and creates a little chaos on 53rd Street.

[Cowtipper]

Sean Burroughs, 43.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/05/ ... -away.html

"Accidental Fentanyl Intoxication" is being cited as cause of death.

Sounds like he bought what he thought was the good stuff, but it was laced with the bad stuff.

[MFS62]

Rachel Minaya, wife of Omar Minaya
https://nypost.com/2024/07/21/sports/ra ... lpPJZMOtgA

RIP
Later

[metirish]

Wow ,how awful

[Cowtipper]

Jerry Walker:

https://www.theadanews.com/oklahoma/for ... bbed0.html

[nymr83]

The wife of Omar Minaya, Rachel, was found dead in their home. No foul play suspected no further details at this time.

[Cowtipper]

Doug Creek:

https://ramblinwreck.com/georgia-tech-b ... oug-creek/

Reyes Moronta:

https://aroundthefoghorn.com/posts/sf-g ... j4cnqxzn25

Gary Dotter:

https://www.wileyfuneralhome.com/obitua ... d=32489037

Denny Lemaster:

https://news.monroelocal.org/obituary-a ... master-85/

Mike Ferraro:

https://nypost.com/2024/07/26/sports/fo ... ead-at-79/

[Cowtipper]

More:

Nelson Chittum:

https://www.legacy.com/funeral-homes/ob ... batesville

Mel Held:

https://www.krillfuneralservice.com/obi ... elvin-held

[Benjamin Grimm]

Who are these people?

[Edgy MD]

Yes, let us do more than ticking names off.

[Cowtipper]

Former MLB umpire Larry Poncino:

https://www.afterall.com/obituaries/LarryPoncino

[MFS62]

Billy Bean - 60 from Leukemia.
One of the first openly gay Major leaguers.
From wiki:
In July 2014, he was named MLB's first ambassador for inclusion. In January 2016, he became MLB's vice president, ambassador for inclusion and was senior vice president and special assistant to the commissioner.


RIP
Later

[metirish]

Just reading about this , how sad