finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1914 right 12 october 1918 cazaux , france chicago , illinois 1914 april 21 .000 0 0 pitcher pitcher new york yankees batting average home runs runs batted in april 21 1 november 1893 tom burr -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 new york yankees tom burr right
tom burr -lrb- baseball -rrb-

alexander thomson burr -lrb- november 1 , 1893 -- october 12 , 1918 -rrb- was a major league baseball player who was killed in world war i. born in chicago , illinois , burr was known as `` tom '' to his friends .
press accounts throughout his life , as well as other memoirs , used this nickname , although many baseball references labeled him `` alex '' -lrb- perhaps because of the brevity of his major-league career -rrb- .
burr attended the choate school -lrb- later choate rosemary hall -rrb- , where he was a star pitcher .
he then went to williams college , although he turned pro before he ever played a collegiate game .
burr made the new york yankees roster as a pitcher under manager frank chance .
however , his only game appearance for the yankees -lrb- on april 21 , 1914 -rrb- came in center field .
he had no fielding chances and did not have a plate appearance .
burr returned to williams after his pro career ended , but he volunteered to serve in the war before he graduated .
he was killed in an airplane accident on october 12 , 1918 while serving in the united states army air service in cazaux , france .
after colliding with a fellow pilot , burr 's plane crashed into a lake in flames ; his body was recovered after 12 days .
he had been serving in france since november 1917 and was 24 years old at the time of his death .
burr was interred in american expeditionary forces cemetery no. 29 .
during the years after the end of world war i , this cemetery was deconsecrated .
some of the bodies exhumed -- including burr 's -- were repatriated .
tom burr 's final resting place became rosehill cemetery and mausoleum in chicago .
burr was one of eight major league baseball players who died while serving in world war i .
the others were : bun troy ‚ larry chappell ‚ eddie grant ‚ ralph sharman , harry glenn , harry chapman , and newt halliday .
