Baseball players buried in Kentucky
Wikidata records 38 baseball players as buried in 16 of the cemeteries we list in Kentucky. Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville holds the most, with 14. Kentucky has the 16th highest count of any state, out of 2,064 nationally.
People with baseball player among their recorded occupations.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Baseball players buried in Kentucky
- Nick Reeder1867-1894American baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- John Haldeman1855-1899American baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Phil Reccius1862-1902Major League Baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Jimmy Wolf1862-1903Major League Baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Pete Browning1861-1905American baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Doc Powers1870-1909American baseball playerSaint Louis Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Dan McGann1871-1910American baseball playerGrove Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville, KY
- John Dodge1889-1916American Major League Baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Monk Cline1858-1916American baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- John Kerins1858-1919Major League Baseball player, managerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Tom McLaughlin1860-1921American baseball playerSaint Michael Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- James Shawler1878-1925Negro League Baseball playerLouisville Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- John Reccius1859-1930Major League Baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Charlie Blackwell1894-1935Negro League Baseball playerCap Anderson Cemetery, Brandenburg, KY
- Bill Hill1874-1938American baseball playerEvergreen Cemetery, Southgate, KY
- Scott Stratton1869-1939American baseball playerValley Cemetery, Taylorsville, KY
- Rudy Sommers1886-1949American baseball playerCalvary Cemetery, Audubon Park, KY
- Rudy Hulswitt1877-1950American baseball playerCalvary Cemetery, Audubon Park, KY
- Harry Camnitz1884-1951Major League Baseball pitcherCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Gus Weyhing1866-1955American baseball player and managerCalvary Cemetery, Audubon Park, KY
- Jesse Tannehill1874-1956American baseball playerEvergreen Cemetery, Southgate, KY
- Billy Clingman1869-1958American baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Howie Camnitz1881-1960American baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Hogan Yancey1881-1960American football playerLexington Cemetery, Lexington-Fayette, KY
- Jesse Briscoe1882-1962American baseball playerLouisville Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Joe Guyon1892-1971American football player and coach, baseball player and coachRest Haven Memorial Cemetery, Buechel, KY
- Stan Arnzen1914-1977American basketball and baseball playerEvergreen Cemetery, Southgate, KY
- Fred Koster1905-1979American baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Sammy T. Hughes1910-1981American baseball playerLouisville Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Johnny Marcum1909-1984American baseball playerEminence Cemetery, Eminence, KY
- Hugh Poland1910-1984American professional baseball catcherHighland Cemetery, Guthrie, KY
- Max Macon1916-1989American baseball playerRest Haven Memorial Cemetery, Buechel, KY
- Dixie Howell1920-1990American baseball playerCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- Vern Curtis1920-1992American baseball playerRoselawn Cemetery, Bardwell, KY
- Pee Wee Reese1918-1999American baseball player and coachRest Haven Memorial Cemetery, Buechel, KY
- Woodie Fryman1940-2011American baseball playerElizaville Cemetery, Flemingsburg, KY
- C. M. Newton1930-2018American college basketball coachLexington Cemetery, Lexington-Fayette, KY
- Cotton Nash1942-2023American basketball and baseball playerCalvary Cemetery, Lexington-Fayette, KY
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Deaths by decade
- 1890s2
- 1900s4
- 1910s4
- 1920s2
- 1930s4
- 1940s1
- 1950s5
- 1960s3
- 1970s3
- 1980s4
- 1990s3
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
By recorded year of death, for the 38 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Cave Hill Cemetery · Louisville, KY14
- Louisville Cemetery · Louisville, KY3
- Calvary Cemetery · Audubon Park, KY3
- Evergreen Cemetery · Southgate, KY3
- Rest Haven Memorial Cemetery · Buechel, KY3
- Lexington Cemetery · Lexington-Fayette, KY2
- Elizaville Cemetery · Flemingsburg, KY1
- Calvary Cemetery · Lexington-Fayette, KY1
- Saint Louis Cemetery · Louisville, KY1
- Saint Michael Cemetery · Louisville, KY1
- Valley Cemetery · Taylorsville, KY1
- Cap Anderson Cemetery · Brandenburg, KY1
- Roselawn Cemetery · Bardwell, KY1
- Eminence Cemetery · Eminence, KY1
- Highland Cemetery · Guthrie, KY1
- Grove Hill Cemetery · Shelbyville, KY1
Other notable burials in Kentucky
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.