List of oldest living Major League Baseball players

• Tommy Lasorda, at, is the oldest living member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
• Billy Gardner, at, is the oldest living former manager, having managed the Minnesota Twins and the Kansas City Royals.
• Eddie Robinson, at, is the oldest living former major league coach – having coached with the Baltimore Orioles.
• Eddie Robinson is the last living player to have played in the 1942 season, though he missed the next three years because of WWII. Chris Haughey is the last living player to have played in the 1943 season, though only on the last day of the season.
• Eddie Basinski, at, is the last living major leaguer mentioned in the Dave Frishberg song Van Lingle Mungo.
• Willie Mays, at, is the oldest living major leaguer mentioned in the Terry Cashman song Talkin' Baseball.
• Bill Terry was the last living person mentioned in Ogden Nash's poem Line-Up for Yesterday. He died in 1989, aged.
• Bobby Doerr, a second baseman for the Boston Red Sox, was the longest-lived member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame when he died in 2017, aged.
• Red Hoff, a pitcher for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns, was the longest-lived major leaguer – he died in 1998, aged.
• Silas Simmons, who played in the Negro leagues, is believed to have been the longest-lived professional baseball player in history – his year of birth is disputed, but he was at least 109 and possibly 111 at the time of his death in 2006.