In April 1941, while he was en route to visit one of the Pittsburgh farm clubs in Moultrie, Georgia, Schultz was suddenly stricken with acute toxic hepatitis and died in Columbia, South Carolina, at the age of 47.
Schultz died suddenly in April 1941, during a trip to see one of the Pittsburgh farm clubs in Moultrie, Georgia. He had contracted acute toxic hepatitis and was found deceased in Columbia, South Carolina, at the age of 47.