Baseballist Gravesites in New England

Find-a-Grave is a marvelous repository of information on gravesites with two databases, one for the famous and one for the not-famous (for finding or honoring friends and relatives). Its "famous" database has some entry for almost everyone listed here: personal name, vital dates, cemetery name, and often a blurb. Each "blurb and photo" linked here is a more complete entry at Find-a-Grave, always including some biographical blurb and gravesite photo and usually including a gravesite address. Find-a-grave solicits contributions and grows rapidly. I will be grateful for notices of any baseballists newly listed there.

Stew Thornley [Minneapolis MN] maintains a directory of Baseball Hall of Fame gravesites with more complete cemetery and gravesite locations than Find-a-Grave provides, but without blurbs or photos and limited to Hall of Fame members. Stew has now visited all 182 sites; ten deceased HOFers are not interred. Of course, his work is "all done" only temporarily.

One bright day, Summer 2001, Stew and I visited the six HOFers buried in Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge: by debut date, George Wright, Mike "King" Kelly, Tim Keefe, John Clarkson, Tommy McCarthy, and Hugh Duffy. Someday, some of our photos will appear here and some at Find-a-Grave. Of the six "locals", only Duffy was still active at the turn of the 20th century, and he was barely active, the 34-year-old player-manager of the first Milwaukee Brewers in their only major league season.

Scope. This list includes every baseballist buried in the six states whose entry I noticed at Find-a-Grave, 21 May 2001, plus Mike "King" Kelly who was unlisted there, plus a few others. It thereby includes every Hall of Fame member buried in New England. Please send information about any baseballist gravesite that should be listed here, in your opinion. (I can accept some photos, too.)

Unmarked graves. Since the dedication of a marker for Roger Connor in Waterbury CT, 30 June 2001, every Hall of Famer who is buried in New England lies in a marked grave. The gravesites of Connor, Billy Hamilton (HOF) and Duffy Lewis (not HOF) were marked only in the last few years, thanks to local volunteers and donors.

No burial. Tom Yawkey, owner of the Boston Red Sox for four decades, was cremated and his ashes were distributed. He is one of ten deceased HOFers who are not interred.

If you visit, be forewarned that a "gravesite address" may support a frustrating search. Roads are unmarked, rows are unnumbered. To visit with some security of finding, contact the cemetery in advance and acquire detailed instructions or a map.

Format:

ordered by state (MA RI CT VT NH ME), by status (HOF, non-HOF), by last name (alphabetical)

Lastname, Firstname (birthyear-deathyear) -- gravesite city [link or more information] -- cemetary name

Massachusetts

Central and Western Mass., HOF (5):

Burkett, Jesse (1870-1953) -- Worcester blurb and photo

Chesbro, Jack (1874-1931) -- Conway

Cummings, "Candy" (1848-1924) -- Ware

Hamilton, Billy (1866-1940) -- Lancaster

Maranville, "Rabbit" (1891-1954) -- Springfield blurb and photo

Central and Western Mass., non-HOF (1):

Moran, Pat (1876-1924) -- Fitchburg blurb and photo

Metro Boston, HOF (9):

Clarkson, John (1861-1909) -- Cambridge blurb and photo -- Cambridge:

Collins, Eddie (1887-1951) -- Weston blurb and photo

Connolly, Tom (1870-1961) -- Natick blurb and photo

Duffy, Hugh (1866-1954) -- Boston -- Calvary:
(along the drive a few feet from John L. Sullivan's monumental stone)

Keefe, Timothy (1857-1933) -- Cambridge blurb and photo -- Cambridge:

Kelly, Mike "King" (1857-1894) -- Boston (unlisted at Find-a-Grave, 2001-05-21) -- Mount Hope:

McCarthy, Tom (1863-1922) -- Boston -- Calvary:

Selee, Frank (1859-1909) -- Melrose blurb and photo

Wright, George (1847-1937) -- Brookline blurb and photo -- Holyhood:

Metro Boston, non-HOF (5):

Agganis, Harry (1930-1955) -- Lynn blurb and photo

Conigliaro, Tony (1945-1990) -- Lynn blurb and photo

Gautreau, Walter "Doc" (1901-1970) -- Watertown -- Mount Auburn: Warbler Drive

O'Connell, Dick (????-2002) -- Watertown -- Mount Auburn: Willow Court

Waitkus, Eddie (1919-1972) -- Cambridge blurb and photo -- Cambridge: WWII plot

Southeastern Mass., HOF (1):

Cronin, Joe (1906-1984) -- Centerville, Cape Cod

Rhode Island

(none)

Connecticut

Connecticut, HOF (4):

Bulkeley, Morgan (1837-1922) -- Hartford

Connor, Roger (1857-1931) -- Waterbury

O'Rourke, "Orator" Jim (1852-1919) -- Stratford

Weiss, George (1894-1972) -- New Haven blurb and photo

Connecticut, non-HOF (5):

Allen, Mel (1913-1996) -- Stamford blurb and photo

Ball, C. "Neal" (1881-1957) -- Bridgeport blurb and photo

Giamatti, A. "Bart" (1938-1989) -- New Haven blurb and photo "Nineteenth President of Yale University"

Schacht, Al (1892-1984) -- Woodbury blurb and photo

Smith, Red (Walter Smyth?) (1905-1982(?)) -- Stamford blurb and photo

Vermont

(none)

New Hampshire

New Hampshire, non-HOF (1)

Lewis, G.E. "Duffy" (1888-1979) -- Londonderry

Maine

Maine, non-HOF (2):

Sockalexis, Louis (1871-1913) -- Old Town blurb and photo

Young, Irving "Little Cy" (1877-1935) -- Columbia Falls