page_title: 1986 in baseball
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1986 in baseball / Deaths / July
caption_attribution_description: English: "Informal half-length portrait of baseball player Ted Lyons of the American League's Chicago White Sox, sitting in a dugout at a ballpark in San Antonio, Texas, during spring training."
context_page_description: The following are the baseball events of the year 1986 throughout the world.
context_section_description: July   2 – Peanuts Lowrey, 68, All-Star outfielder and third baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies through 13 seasons from 1942–1955, appearing in 978 games and being regarded as one of the best utility men and pinch-hitters of his generation, while posting a .310 batting average and .678 OPS for the Cubs in the 1945 World Series, and also performing during the winters in the 1940s in offseason exhibition games, occasionally playing along with future Hall of Famers including Cool Papa Bell, Jimmie Foxx, Ralph Kiner, Bob Lemon, Buck Leonard, Satchel Paige and Ted Williams.
  July   3 – Bill McCahan, 65, pitcher who posted a 16-14 record and 3.84 ERA in 57 games for the  Philadelphia Athletics from 1946-1949, including a no-hitter game against the Washington Senators in 1947.
  July   4 – Oscar Roettger, 86, first baseman and pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Brooklyn Robins and Philadelphia Athletics over part of four seasons from 1923–1932.
  July   6 – Eddie Yuhas, 61, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals during two seasons from 1952–1953.
  July   8 – Johnny Cooney, 85, pitcher, outfielder and first baseman for the Boston Bees and Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees in 20 seasons from 1921–1944, who also managed the Braves in 1949 and later became a longtime coach.
  July   8 – Skeeter Webb, 76, middle infielder who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Philadelphia Athletics over part of 12 seasons between 1932 and 1948.
  July   9 – Red Lucas, 84, solid two-way pitcher and prolific pinch-hitter, who played for the New York Giants, Boston Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates in a span of 15 seasons from 1923–1938, posting a 157-135 record with a 3.72 ERA in 396 pitching appearances and amassing 204 complete games and 22 shutouts, while recording a .280 batting average and 404 hits, 114 of them in pinch-hitting duties, including three home runs.
  July 25 – Ted Lyons, 85, Hall of Fame and All.Star pitcher who spent his entire 21-year career with the Chicago White Sox, from 1923 through 1942, and again in 1946, following three years of service during wartime, collecting a 260-230 record and 3.67 ERA in 594 games for a usually mediocre team, while leading the American League in wins, innings pitched, complete games and shutouts twice each, going 22–15 with AL leading totals of 29 complete games and 297⅔ innings for a 62-92 team in 1930 and completing each and every one of his 20 starts in 1942, at the age of 41, going 14-6 and leading the league with a 2.10 ERA, and also pitching a no-hitter in 1926 against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, which took just one hour and 45 minutes to complete.
  July 26 – Webb Schultz, 88, pitcher who played for the 1924 Chicago White Sox.
  July 27 – Bud Hafey, 73, outfielder who played for the Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies in a span of three seasons from 1935–1939.
  July 28 – Cliff Melton, 74, pitcher for the New York Giants over parts of eight seasons spanning 1937–1944.
  July 28 – Joe Oeschger, 94, pitcher known for his durable arm while pitching for six different teams in 12 seasons from  1914–1925, who shares an MLB record for the most innings pitched while playing for the Boston Braves in 1920, locked in a pitching duel with Leon Cadore of the Brooklyn Dodgers during 26 innings in a 1-1 tie eventually called because of darkness, as both pitchers had gone the distance.
  July 30 – Mickey Heath, 82, first baseman who played from 1931 to 1932 for the Cincinnati Reds.
caption: Ted Lyons in 1930
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