The Oldest Living Major Leaguer??

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Posted By: James Feagin

Age and longevity have always seemed to fascinate me. In the baseball realm, this became of particular interest when while trying to get several 1952 Topps autographed through the mail, the majority of the players had passed on. I became curious whether any players from the 1934 Goudey set (my favorite) were still living. Much to my surprise, according to baseball-reference.com both Billy Werber (97) and Linus Frey (96) were alive and well. There aren't too many pre-war players still alive with cards. Immediately Bob Feller, Bobby Doerr, and Al Lopez also come to mind. Who is the oldest living major-leaguer? Where can I easily find out the answer to this question without doing hordes of research? I also remember reading an SCD in the mid-80's which stated the oldest living player from the t206 set had passed away. Anyone know who that was? Like I said, for some reason this fascinates me, and I'm looking for resources.

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Posted By: Andrew Parks

http://www.wcnet.org/~dlfleitz/oldestupd.htm

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Posted By: Andrew Parks

Rank Name DOB Years of Service Notes
1 Ray Cunningham 1/17/1905 1931-32

2 Rollie Stiles 11/17/1906 1930-33

3 Howdie Grosklos 4/9/1907 1930-32

4 Bobby Stevens 4/17/1907 1931

5 Ray Berres 8/31/1907 1934-45

6 Bill Werber 6/20/1908 1930, 1933-42

7 AL LOPEZ 8/20/1908 1928-47

8 Sol Carter 12/23/1908 1931

9 Ernie Koy 9/17/1909 1938-42

10 Tony Malinosky 10/5/1909 1937

11 Emil Mailho 12/16/1909 1936

12 Eddie Mayo 4/15/1910 1936-38, 1943-48


Frenchy Uhalt 4/27/1910 1934 Died on 9/3/2004.
13 Mike Balas 5/17/1910 1938

14 Lonny Frey 8/23/1910 1933-43, 1946-48

15 Eldon Auker 9/21/1910 1933-42

16 Herb Hash 2/13/1911 1938

17 Bill Baker 2/22/1911 1940-43, 1946-49


Jim Bucher 3/11/1911 1934-38, 1944-45

18 Connie Marrero 4/25/1911 1950-54

Harry Danning 9/16/1911 1933-42 Died on 11/29/2004.

Harry Boyles 11/29/1911 1938-39 Died on 1/7/2005.
19 Nino Bongiovani 12/21/1911 1938-39

20 Ace Adams 3/2/1912 1941-46

21 Jack Wade 4/1/1912 1936-39, 1942-46

22 Ace Parker 5/17/1912 1937-38

23 Bill Fehring 5/31/1912 1934

24 Don Gutteridge 6/19/1912 1936-48

25 Milt Bocek 7/16/1912 1933-34

26 George Cisar 8/25/1912 1937

27 Charlie Wagner 12/3/1912 1938-42, 1946

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Posted By: James Feagin

Wow! Thanks so much, perhaps I'm dense, but where did you find that info? I'm also looking for the last player with a t206 card who passed on.....

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Posted By: Andrew Parks

http://www.wa-wd.com/

Click on "Odds and Ends"
Click on Oldest Living Major League Players

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Posted By: Mike Tucci (18colt)

I think the last T-206 player to die was Rube Marquard around 1980. I'd have to look it up though.

Mike (18colt)

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Posted By: Rich Klein

The Sabr biographical committee, headed up by the indefatiguable (sic) Bill Carle keeps tabs on all players living over the age of 90. One of the guys here at Beckett had a similar question and he supplied me a complete list within hours

Rich

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Posted By: tbob

The last living player with a prewar (pre WW1) vintage card is in the T207 set. Wasn't it Hoff?

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Posted By: will watson

Julio Franco. the guy has been cashing social security checks since the Kennedy administration. and he's still playing!

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Posted By: jay behrens

Bob, I think you are right. I think lived to be 105 or so.

Jay

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: will watson

edit. double post

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Posted By: Adam J. Moraine

I thought the oldest living player was Al Lopez. I am almost 110% sure he was born in 1905.

Best Regards,

Adam J. Moraine

NEVER MIND, I stand corrected, after reading Andrew Parks' list at the top of the thread. Lopez is the 7th oldest.

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Posted By: Adam J. Baxter

at 97, Lopez is the oldest living member of the Hall Of Fame.

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Posted By: Paul

Has any Hall of Famer ever lived longer than Al Lopez? This guy seems immortal. Even Connie Mack died eventually.

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Posted By: Glenn

Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe of the Negro Leagues will be turning 103 in a couple of weeks.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Chet Hoff was the oldest major leaguer of all time, living to 107. He was born in 1890 and died in 1998. No other major leaguer has even lived to 102, although Radcliffe is the second oldest player ever in organized ball.

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Altho he isnt older than Lopez i found it interesting that Bob Feller has been a Hall of Famer longer than he hasnt been in the hall of fame.He was 43 years and 2+ months old when he got elected,which was 43 years and 4 months ago