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Non Wartime Deaths

Rank Name Baseball Experience Pos Service Cause of Death Location Date
Cmdr. Alexander F. Crosman Amateur Unknown US Navy Accident Nicaragua Apr 12, 1872
Sgt. John C. "Louie" Lyons Minor League P US Army Auto Accident Cumberland, MD July 4, 1919
1/Lt. Marvin M. Goodwin Major League P US Army Air Service Plane Crash Houston, TX Oct 21, 1925
Sgt. Joseph Bowers Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
T/5 Carnell Boyd Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
Pfc. Clarence W. Brown Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
T/4 Fred Brown Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
Pfc. Jonathan Culbertson Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
Pfc. John T. Eatmon Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
Cpl. Harry L. Edmonds Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
Sgt. Earnest Flowers Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
T/5 Jessie L. Glover Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
T/5 Robert L. Goins Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
S/Sgt. Vivien L. Harris Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
Pfc. Robert Hillman, Jr. Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
Pfc. L.C. Hollins Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
T/5 Emanuel M. Jackson Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
Pfc. William Jenkins, Jr. Amateur Unknown US Army Plane Crash Iwo Jima Nov 16, 1946
Y2C William R. Loftus Amateur OF US Navy Plane Crash Pacific Ocean Aug 6, 1947
A/2c Lloyd D. Buresh Amateur 3B USAF Bus Crash Cushing, TX Aug 26, 1955
2/Lt. Hugh B. Lott, Jr. Minor League P USAF Plane Crash Bartonville, IL Mar 14, 1959
Col. Robert W. "Bob" Stephens Minor League P USAF Plane Crash Cannon AFB, NM Apr 6, 1960
Pfc. William "Billy" McKeever Amateur OF US Army Auto Accident Denton, TX Jul 29, 1963
Cptn. Patrick M. Klokow College C US Marine Corps Auto Accident San Diego, CA Aug 23, 2005

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Baseball players who died in accidents, plane crashes and bus crashes while in military service.

 


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