This is heart-breaking. St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Josh Hancock was killed in a car accident early Sunday morning. The Cardinals’ scheduled game yesterday with the Cubs was canceled.
Out here in San Diego, at Petco Park, Hancock was honored with a moment of silence before the start of Sunday’s game against the Dodgers. For those of […]
Former MLB commissioner Bowie Kuhn died Thursday at age 80. My thoughts go out to his family and friends.
I don’t have a strong recollection of Kuhn’s tenure (I was in high school when he vacated the office), but David Pinto at Baseball Musings shares his opinions on the matter.
One passage from the ESPN article stands […]
Former big-league pitcher Vern Ruhle has died at age 55. His best season came in 1980, while he was with the Houston Astros.
I’ll always remember that ‘80 Astros team, because they beat my childhood team — the Dodgers — in a 1-game playoff at the end of the season to win the NL West. Tommy […]
A buddy just sent this my way. Former big-league third baseman Chris Brown is dead at age 45. Brown, who played for the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, and Detroit Tigers from 1984 to 1989, died from burns suffered in a fire at his home in Sugar Land, Tex.
The fire took place in late […]
Former big-league pitcher, coach, and manager Larry Sherry is dead at age 71. Winner of the 1959 World Series MVP as a rookie reliever for the Dodgers, Sherry had been battling cancer for several years. His older brother, Norm, also played and managed at the big-league level.
My condolences go out to Sherry’s family and friends.
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Former big-league shortstop Jose Uribe was killed in a car crash in the Dominican Republic. Uribe, who played with the San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, and Houston Astros, was 47. Our condolences go out to the family and friends of Uribe.
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Former Boston Braves pitcher Johnny Sain died last week at age 89. Perhaps best known for his part in a poem penned by Gerald V. Hern in 1948, Sain was the winner of 139 big-league games in a career that spanned from 1942 to 1955 and saw him pitch for the New York Yankees and […]
ESPN is reporting (via 6-4-2) that former big-league pitcher Joe Niekro is dead at age 61 due to a brain aneurysm. Niekro was a third round pick of the Chicago Cubs in 1966 and made his debut with them the following season, finishing 10-7 with a 3.34 ERA in his rookie campaign.
Niekro won 221 games […]
As you know by now, Cory Lidle was killed when his plane crashed into a building in New York on Wednesday. Choosing to focus on life rather than death, Bluebird Banter examines Lidle’s lone season in Toronto as a member of the Blue Jays. Although he suffered through arguably his worst season as a big […]
Negro League legend Buck O’Neil died Friday at age 94. MLB.com has a great article on the man so I’ll leave it to them and simply offer my condolences to the O’Neil family. His passion for the game was infectious and his spirit will live on as long as folks are still playing it.
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