Welcome to Today In Baseball History for Friday, April 18, 2014.

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

• 1892 - Bligh, Ned
• 1893 - Fox, John
• 1893 - Siefke, Fred
• 1895 - Myers, Henry
• 1902 - Grossart, George
• 1904 - Ziegler, Charlie
• 1912 - Gehring, Henry
• 1913 - Miller, Roscoe
• 1920 - McMillan, George
• 1926 - Haddock, George
• 1927 - Smith, Pop
• 1930 - Stivetts, Jack
• 1932 - Benners, Ike
• 1937 - Carpenter, Hick
• 1953 - Tierney, Cotton
• 1953 - Niles, Harry
• 1956 - O'Rourke, Patsy
• 1956 - Davidson, Claude
• 1957 - Reinecker, Wally
• 1957 - Sweeney, Bill
• 1970 - York, Tony
• 1975 - Burns, Jack
• 1979 - Deal, Lindsay
• 1983 - Rich, Woody
• 1986 - Durning, George
• 1990 - Antonelli, John
• 1991 - Jones, Sheldon
• 1998 - Sessi, Walter
• 2003 - Sloat, Lefty