List of oldest living Major League Baseball players

This list includes the 100 oldest living former Major League Baseball players, listed from oldest to youngest. The primary position of each player is noted after his name.

• Willie Mays, at 90, is the oldest living member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
• Billy Gardner, at 94, is the oldest living former manager, having managed the Minnesota Twins (1981–1985) and the Kansas City Royals (1987).
• Chris Haughey is the last living player to have played in the 1943 season, though only on the last day of the season. Eddie Basinski and Tommy Brown are the only other living men to have played during World War II.
• Eddie Basinski, at 99, is the last living major leaguer mentioned in the Dave Frishberg song Van Lingle Mungo.
• Willie Mays, at 90, is the oldest living major leaguer mentioned in the Terry Cashman song Talkin' Baseball.
• Bill Terry was the last living person mentioned in Ogden Nash's poem Line-Up for Yesterday. He died in 1989, aged 90 years, 71 days.
• Bobby Doerr, a second baseman for the Boston Red Sox, was the longest-lived member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame when he died in 2017, aged 99 years, 220 days.
• Silas Simmons, a pitcher for New York Lincoln Giants, was the longest-lived major league player in history – his year of birth is disputed, but he was at least 109 and possibly 111 at the time of his death in 2006.
• Red Hoff, a pitcher for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns, was the longest-lived National or American League player– he died in 1998, aged 107 years, 132 days.

See also[]

• List of oldest Major League Baseball players
• List of centenarians (Major League Baseball players)

Sources[]

• Baseball Almanac
• Baseball Library
• The Baseball Page
• Baseball Reference
• Oldest Living Major League Baseball Players
• Who's Alive and Who's Dead
• RIP Baseball Blog