Reply With QuoteBill Buckner, my favorite player when I was little, passed away today. He was more famous for a certain missed ground ball in Boston, but I always remember him as a Cub.
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Murray Gell-Mann, 1969 Nobel winner in physics and creator of the term "quark", 89:
https://gizmodo.com/murray-gell-mann...rks-1835049320
Bill Buckner, my favorite player when I was little, passed away today. He was more famous for a certain missed ground ball in Boston, but I always remember him as a Cub.
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As good as he was as a ballplayer, and he was quite good, he would not be appearing in this discussion thread if not for the booted ball in Game 6.
I might have put him in here...depending on my mood. As I said, he was my favorite player back when I was barely old enough to know what a favorite player was. He helped introduce me to baseball. But as far as anyone else on here? Yeah, most probably wouldn't know who he was.Originally Posted by PPatty
I used to watch Cub's baseball on WGN all the time when I was in college and he was playing for them. Sucks he will live on in infamy for that one ground ball, even though he was a damn good hitter. I saw a graphic yesterday that showed between 1970 and 1989 the only player with more hits than Buckner was Pete Rose.
'This world may be another planet's hell.'{Aldous Huxley}
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'{Aldous Huxley}
The defendant in the most famous trial involving Dmitry has died:
Claus von Bulow, socialite accused in sensational trials of trying to kill wife, dies at 92
People forget now, but at the time, it was one of those "trial of the century" type of deals.
Twofer today: Gloria Vanderbilt, 95, fashion designer/socialite: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/enter...ies/index.html
Mohamed Morsy, former Egyptian president, 67, collapsed in court: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/middl...ntl/index.html
67. Ouch
He'd been fighting a few things for quite a while (Diabetes and other ailments), and he wasn't getting any treatment in jail, so not all that surprising.
And three years later, the dad has joined him:
https://www.tmz.com/2019/06/26/max-w...d-dies-cancer/
I thought the bump was going to be for Beth from "Dog The Bounty Hunter".
This forum doesn't seem like a Dog kinda place. I've seen quite a bit of the show, though, and I can say that she was as much a part of it as he was.
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Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs dead at 27
Today we sail
On the Solar Rail
For there's much we just don't know
So farewell with a kiss
Then it's fast for the mist
Till we're sleeping in the cold below
Funny anecdote... the Twitter hashtag #RIP45 was trending for a while yesterday, in his honor. At this same time, there was some unknown emergency in Washington that caused VP Pence's plane to have to turn around and return to the airport either just before or just after takeoff (conflicting stories) and Pence was rushed back to the White House. We still don't know why, but supposedly we'll find out "in a few weeks".
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/u...cels-trip.html
But, the fact that this happened during the #RIP45 trending caused some people to be very disappointed
https://toofab.com/2019/07/02/rip45-...p-is-not-dead/
Lee Iacocca, car guy, 94.
https://www.newser.com/story/277311/...paign=20190703
'This world may be another planet's hell.'{Aldous Huxley}
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'{Aldous Huxley}
That's akin to saying "Steve Jobs, computer guy." Lee Iacocca, the greatest marketer in the history of American autos, was the only car executive since Henry Ford to become a household name.
He invented the minivan which was probably one of the most important automotive changes in history. And honestly as a family hauler the minivan is still to this day superior to the SUV or crossover in pure utility.
Today we sail
On the Solar Rail
For there's much we just don't know
So farewell with a kiss
Then it's fast for the mist
Till we're sleeping in the cold below
Yeah, I know that was an understatement, kind of why I did it.
'This world may be another planet's hell.'{Aldous Huxley}
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'{Aldous Huxley}
My Dad isn't a recreational reader - you could count the number of books he's read for pleasure on one hand. Iacocca's biography is one of those books.
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