Visiting T206 Players to say "Hello"

[J-Yo]

To summarize all my photos:

I live in western NY so some of the ones I took are within an hour.

Hooks Wiltse is buried on a hill in a cemetery directly across from Syracuse University, I really liked the message on his grave, “Gentle and Kind.”

I also went to his hometown where they have a little league complex named after him.

Bill Dinneen is buried in the dying city of Utica NY. It was depressing to see his grave in the condition it was, needs a good cleaning. I wanted to clean it but I know you need to use certain chemicals otherwise you could harm the stone.

Jimmy Collins is buried in an Irish only cemetery outside of Buffalo. Was a little difficult to find since many of the graves looked similar.

The rest I took going on family trips, it drives my wife a little crazy “we’re going to see dead people again!?”

Connie Mack and Ira Thomas are buried in the same cemetery north of Philadelphia.

Chief Bender is buried in an active cemetery where there were a lot of people running/riding bikes.

Wild Bill Donovan also buried in Philly, in the Irish part. Found it interesting that he was buried with maybe 4 strangers, not sure of the relationship.

Christy Mathewson, buried right next to his college, Bucknell. What I didn’t realize was Moose McCormick is buried in the same cemetery so I’ll have to go back.

Slim Caldwell was buried in a town on the NY PA border, extremely rural area.

I too was in the Daytona cemetery to see Nap Lojoie a few weeks ago so that caught my attention.

I wanted to see Smoky Joe Wood as I was in the area (Scranton PA shoutout to fellow The Office fans). It looks like he’s buried on private property and you’d have to cut through someone’s yard. I’ll have to do more research.

Anyone interested just use baseball reference you can sort burials by state, and find a grave helps you locate the exact spot.

I’ll for sure be adding more as I visit!


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