title: The "birthday blues" in a sample of major league baseball players' suicides.
abstract: Among 74 major league baseball players known to have committed suicide, 17 occurred within 28 days of the players' birthdays as compared to an expected number of 11.4.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, P.O. Box 195, Jimmie Leeds Road, Pomona, NJ 08240-0195, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D001484:Baseball / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D015143:Philadelphia; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data