Welcome to Today In Baseball History for Monday, May 22, 2017.

Major League baseball players who died on this date...

• 1933 - Pearce, Bunny
• 1935 - Glavenich, Luke
• 1936 - Wilhelm, Kaiser
• 1937 - Jasper, Hi
• 1938 - Lumley, Harry
• 1939 - Link, Fred
• 1943 - Bowser, Red
• 1943 - Wood, Bob
• 1945 - Atz, Jake
• 1946 - Betts, Harry
• 1954 - Bender, Chief
• 1956 - Howell, Harry
• 1959 - Biscan, Frank
• 1959 - Sheehan, Tommy
• 1961 - Regan, Mike
• 1963 - Shean, Dave
• 1966 - Hauser, Arnold
• 1972 - Fowler, Dick
• 1974 - White, Ernie
• 1975 - Grove, Lefty
• 1978 - Susko, Pete
• 1981 - Bayne, Bill
• 1998 - Hatfield, Fred
• 2001 - Hamner, Ralph
• 2002 - Cascarella, Joe
• 2002 - Giel, Paul
• 2002 - Hacker, Warren
• 2002 - Ackley, Fritz