Incomplete: Visit Gravesites of 100 Different Former MLBers Buried in Texas (1-100)
walksportsLeveraging an initial list from baseball-reference(dot)com and then greatly assisted by the new Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Graves Map, visit and document the grave markers of the various former major league players, pitchers and managers that are buried in Texas.
Am capturing these at https://texasmlbgravesites.blogspot.com/, with the various wikipedia, baseball-reference, SABR bio and Find-a-Grave information for each individual.
There’s well over 500 to eventually get to.
Really interesting and unique idea
As I may have mentioned before, I have a colleague who does a lot of grave restoration work and is a big baseball fan. So he has kind of been the inspiration for it. Pulling together the various links on each player yields some things that I didn’t know before about certain players. Many of these I hadn’t heard of before. The only woman from Texas who played in the AAGPBL is listed in the SABR Graves Map, but her Find-A-Grave entry says that she was actually cremated (and the marker is a family plot … which I’ve seen!)