# List of centenarians (Major League Baseball players)

The following contains a list of Major League Baseball players who lived to the age of 100. For other baseball players and others associated with baseball who were centenarians, see List of centenarians (sportspeople). For other lists of centenarians, see lists of centenarians.

## Actuarial data

A study by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company that assessed the vital statistics of more than 10,000 baseball players and general mortality rates in the United States concluded that players whose careers began between 1876 and 1900 experienced only 97% expected mortality, those who debuted between 1901 and 1930 had only 64% expected mortality, and those who debuted between 1931 and 1973 experienced only 55% of expected deaths. As early as the 1930s, big league players were exhibiting either a healthy worker effect or the health benefits of the rigorous fitness regimens of professional athletes, or both. However, in this study, vital data on baseball players were limited to those available in the 1974 Baseball Encyclopedia. Other smaller studies have shown similar results for players who debuted between 1911 and 1915 and between 1900 and 1939.
One large study examining major league ballplayers with debuts from 1902 and 2004 found that their expected lifespan was almost five years longer than average 20-year-old American males, and that career length was inversely associated with the risk of death, probably because those who play ball longer gained additional income, physical fitness, and training.

## The ballplayers

| Name | Born | Died | Age | Team(s) |
| Ralph Miller | March 15, 1873 Cincinnati, Ohio | May 7, 1973 Cincinnati, Ohio | 100 years, 53 days | Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1898) Baltimore Orioles (1899) |
| Charlie Emig | April 5, 1875 Cincinnati, Ohio | October 2, 1975 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | 100 years, 180 days | Louisville Colonels (1896) |
| John Daley | May 25, 1887 Du Bois, Pennsylvania | August 31, 1988 Mansfield, Ohio | 101 years, 98 days | St. Louis Browns (1912) |
| Bill Otis | December 24, 1889 Scituate, Massachusetts | December 15, 1990 Duluth, Minnesota | 100 years, 356 days | New York Highlanders (1912) |
| Bob Wright | December 13, 1891 Decatur County, Indiana | July 30, 1993 Carmichael, California | 101 years, 229 days | Chicago Cubs (1915) |
| Ed Gill | August 7, 1895 Somerville, Massachusetts | October 10, 1995 Brockton, Massachusetts | 100 years, 64 days | Washington Senators (1919) |
| Milt Gaston | January 27, 1896 Ridgefield Park, New Jersey | April 26, 1996 Barnstable, Massachusetts | 100 years, 90 days | New York Yankees (1924) St. Louis Browns (1925–1927) Washington Senators (1928) Boston Red Sox (1929–1931) Chicago White Sox (1932–1934) |
| Red Hoff | May 8, 1891 Ossining, New York | September 17, 1998 Daytona Beach, Florida | 107 years, 132 days | New York Highlanders (1911–1913) St. Louis Browns (1915) |
| Karl Swanson | December 17, 1900 North Henderson, Illinois | April 3, 2002 Rock Island, Illinois | 101 years, 107 days | Chicago White Sox (1928–1929) |
| Ralph Erickson | June 25, 1902 Dubois, Idaho | June 27, 2002 Chandler, Arizona | 100 years, 2 days | Pittsburgh Pirates (1929–1930) |
| Ray Cunningham | January 17, 1905 Mesquite, Texas | July 30, 2005 Pearland, Texas | 100 years, 194 days | St. Louis Cardinals (1931–1932) |
| Howdy Groskloss | April 10, 1906 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | July 15, 2006 Vero Beach, Florida | 100 years, 96 days | Pittsburgh Pirates (1930–1932) |
| Silas Simmons | October 14, 1895 Middletown, Delaware | October 29, 2006 St. Petersburg, Florida | 111 years, 15 days | Lincoln Giants (1926) |
| Rollie Stiles | November 17, 1906 Ratcliff, Arkansas | July 22, 2007 St. Louis, Missouri | 100 years, 247 days | St. Louis Browns (1930–1931, 1933) |
| Billy Werber | June 20, 1908 Berwyn Heights, Maryland | January 22, 2009 Charlotte, North Carolina | 100 years, 216 days | New York Yankees (1930–1933) Boston Red Sox (1933–1936) Philadelphia Athletics (1937–1938) Cincinnati Reds (1939–1941) New York Giants (1942) |
| Tony Malinosky | October 7, 1909 Collinsville, Illinois | February 8, 2011 Oxnard, California | 101 years, 124 days | Brooklyn Dodgers (1937) |
| Millito Navarro | September 26, 1905 Patillas, Puerto Rico | April 30, 2011 Ponce, Puerto Rico | 105 years, 216 days | Cuban Stars (East) (1928–1929) |
| Ace Parker | May 17, 1912 Portsmouth, Virginia | November 6, 2013 Portsmouth, Virginia | 101 years, 173 days | Philadelphia Athletics (1937–1938) |
| Connie Marrero | April 25, 1911 Sagua La Grande, Cuba | April 23, 2014 Havana, Cuba | 102 years, 363 days | Washington Senators (1950–1954) |
| Mike Sandlock | October 17, 1915 Old Greenwich, Connecticut | April 4, 2016 Cos Cob, Connecticut | 100 years, 170 days | Boston Braves (1942–1944) Brooklyn Dodgers (1945–1946) Pittsburgh Pirates (1953) |
| Eddie Carnett | October 21, 1916 Springfield, Missouri | November 4, 2016 Ringling, Oklahoma | 100 years, 14 days | Boston Braves (1941) Chicago White Sox (1944) Cleveland Indians (1945) |
| Fred Caligiuri | October 22, 1918 West Hickory, Pennsylvania | November 30, 2018 Charlotte, North Carolina | 100 years, 39 days | Philadelphia Athletics (1941–1942) |
| Eddie Robinson | December 15, 1920 Paris, Texas | October 4, 2021 Bastrop, Texas | 100 years, 293 days | Cleveland Indians (1942, 1946–1948, 1957) Washington Senators (1949–1950) Chicago White Sox (1950–1952) Philadelphia Athletics (1953) New York Yankees (1954–1956) Kansas City Athletics (1956) Detroit Tigers (1957) Baltimore Orioles (1957) |
| George Elder | March 10, 1921 Lebanon, Kentucky | July 7, 2022 Fruita, Colorado | 101 years, 119 days | St. Louis Browns (1949) |
| Art Schallock | April 25, 1924 Mill Valley, California | March 6, 2025 Sonoma, California | 100 years, 314 days | New York Yankees (1951–1955) Baltimore Orioles (1955) |
| Bill Greason | September 3, 1924 Atlanta, Georgia | Living | 100 years, 189 days | Birmingham Black Barons (1948) St. Louis Cardinals (1954) |