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Goodwin had just pitched his way back to the majors in 1925 when he died in an off-season plane crash on an Air Reserve training flight. Goodwin was one of the spitballers permitted to openly continue using the pitch after 1919. (JK)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » October 21, 1925: Marv Goodwin, 34, former righthander for the Cards who joined the Reds at the end of the season, is killed in a plane he was piloting. He is the first active player to die from injuries sustained in an airplane crash. Goodwin was one of the original spitballer who was "grandfathered."