Dead Thread - 2020

[SteveP]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

What was "in her prime"? Seriously, it seemed to last for about 35 years.

That's true. This was 1972, a year after Proud Mary became a bit and before the breakup with Ike

 

[SteveP]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Albany River Rats owner Walter Robb dies from coronavirus

https://www.timesunion.com/news/amp...ies-of-15151449.php?__twitter_impression=true

 

[Kepler]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Albert Uderzo

<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/474x/84/0d/f8/840df877fb2599b7bf4cfd36cff172a8--asterix-obelix-tintin.jpg">

 

[huskyfan]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

What was "in her prime"? Seriously, it seemed to last for about 35 years.

It did! She is fabulous. Got to see her up close and personal in the late 70's. Those legs! I still have leg envy.

 

[mookie1995]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Gonna guess she never shaved the box

 

[Scarlet]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Harlem Globetrotter Curly Neal

 

[rufus]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Not super well known, but actor Mark Blum, from the Covfefe-19 virus.

 

[Kepler]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Harlem Globetrotter Curly Neal

Only 77? I'd have guessed he was in his 90s!

 

[SJHovey]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Only 77? I'd have guessed he was in his 90s!

That was almost exactly my thought. My first thought was surprise that he'd still been alive, but then like you I had to look to see how old he was. He seemed old when I saw him play in the mid-1970's. Probably the bald head.

 

[Kepler]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

That was almost exactly my thought. My first thought was surprise that he'd still been alive, but then like you I had to look to see how old he was. He seemed old when I saw him play in the mid-1970's. Probably the bald head.

Yeah, I always thought he and Lemon were the deans of that 70s team which was all over teevee (even in cartoons from 70-73). And since those clown prince traveling guys play well into their 50s I figured it was like that.

Curly was 10 years younger than Meadowlark, 15 years younger than Geese, and 17 younger than Bobby Joe Mason. So he was actually young for that squad. Huh.

 

[joecct]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Jimmy Wynn, the Toy Cannon, 78.

Man, could he hit bombs.

 

[bostonewe]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Chef Floyd Cardoz, 59. Coronavirus related. NPR Obit

 

[Kepler]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Jimmy Wynn, the Toy Cannon, 78.

Man, could he hit bombs.

I saw that team in 72 or 73 at Shea. Roger Metzger made two plays at short that are the finest I ever saw. Their OF was Watson-Cedeno-Wynn all in their prime (Mike Easler was a bench player!) and they still sucked.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Bill Buckner - 69

 

[JF_Gophers]

Bill Buckner - 69

Didnt he die last year?

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Didnt he die last year?

Dammit. Yes. Saw it on twitter from Habberman and Southpaw.

 

[The Rube]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Dammit. Yes. Saw it on twitter from Habberman and Southpaw.

Guess that one slipped past your glove...

 

[Kepler]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Guess that one slipped past your glove...

To be fair, death would explain the slow reaction time.

 

[burd]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Guess that one slipped past your glove...

To be fair, death would explain the slow reaction time.

Poor f cker. One f ck ng grounder at the worst time.

 

[Kepler]

Re: Dead Thread - 2020

Poor f cker. One f ck ng grounder at the worst time.

He was a good fielder over his career, too.