Death It is alleged that the reason Jimmy became too ill to play was most likely due from overuse of alcohol. In October of the following year, he succumbed to inflammation of the bowels and died at 30 years of age in Chicago. He was interred at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Evanston, Illinois. See also List of players from Ireland in Major League Baseball References External links Major League Baseball shortstops Fort Wayne Kekiongas players Keokuk Westerns players New York Mutuals players Cincinnati Reds (1876–1879) players Chicago White Stockings players Indianapolis Blues players Major League Baseball players from Ireland Irish baseball players Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) 19th-century baseball players 1849 births 1879 deaths 19th-century Irish people Deaths from gastritis Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Evanston, Illinois)