 Brouthers died at the age of 74 of a heart attack in East Orange , New Jersey , and is interred at Saint Mary 's Cemetery in Wappingers Falls , New York . There is a statue dedicated to him located in Veteran 's Park in this small village . In 1945 , Brouthers and several other stars of the era prior to 1910 were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee . In honor of his achievements in Buffalo , he was inducted into the newly formed Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985 . In 1999 , a survey of the Society for American Baseball Research ranked him as the sixth @-@ greatest player of the 19th century . 
