The Top 10 Deadest Athletes Who Used To Be Alive

10) Lee Hartman (hockey) – To honor Hartman’s bright and fiery death, the NHL implemented “The Hartman Rule,” which mandated all future champions must wear protective rubber gloves before lifting hockey’s greatest prize.

9) Audrey Walters (roller derby) – Walters was sandwiched between two blockers with so much force that her head popped clean off of her body, to the delight of death fans everywhere.

8) Matteo Gianluca (baseball) – Known for his elaborate, drawn-out bat flips, Gianluca paid the ultimate price for violating baseball’s unwritten rules when five all star pitchers surrounded him in a back alley and showered him with a powerful barrage of “payback pitches.” 

7) Larry Crawford (boxing) – Larry “No Leftovers” Crawford, a powerful southpaw from Queens, achieved boxing immortality after being eaten alive during a title fight in 1958. 

6) Bart Raymond (football) –Raymond fell victim to his own innovation when the league’s first AI-enabled tackling dummy gained sentience and turned on its creator, beating him to death with his mechanical padding. 

5) Tim Porter (college basketball) – We all remember this one. RIP.

4) Remy Carlton (sprinter, long jumper) – Carlton jumped so far, he hasn’t been seen since. He was legally “dead” when the FBI closed the case in 1997.

3) Lilly Carroll (basketball) – The WNBA has spent most of its existence as the butt of jokes, but nobody was laughing when Carroll saw her chance to dispel the myth that women can’t dunk. Unfortunately, she was so good at dunking that she tore one of her arms off and bled to death on the court.

2)  Sam Henderson (football) – Henderson came between an Offensive Lineman and a cupcake. Henderson did die, and the cupcake was consumed. 

1) Lou Gehrig (baseball) – Gehrig’s Hall of Fame career was so impressive that they even named the rare nerve disease that ended his life after him. No other formerly-living athlete can say the same.