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Larry Lucchino (1945-2024)1979-1985 Member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Redskins1988–1993 President of the Baltimore Orioles1995–2001 President of the San Diego Padres2002–2015 President of the Boston Red Soxhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Lucchino
A fellow on another forum asked, "Does the coffin fit?"
Juice squeezed for the last time: OJ Simpson at 76. Apparently, he never found the real killer, either.
Taro Akebono (54) - first non-Japanese Yokozuna.
And whenever I think of him, I will think of the greatest prank phone call ever.
Same!I see OJ, and he scared! Oh, and Baba Booey to y'all.
This is the whole country watching a prank call on network television. In any conversation of great prank calls, it is in the conversation. People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J chase. The fact that I have done multiple Olympics, eight World Series, eight Super Bowls and a ninth coming this year, is kind of shoved off to the side. It is a hockey game, an earthquake and the O.J. case (laughs). I was trying to parse so carefully what I was saying that when the prank call was over I used words like “lest” and “farcical.' I love being in New York because there’s always fans yelling to me that “It’s totally farcical, Al!”
Whitey Herzog at 92.
Whitey came up with the Nats in 1956. Did not hit much, and Calvin Griffith pushed him along to the Kansas City A's.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/16/carl-erskine-dodgers-boys-of-summer-dead-obituary/97. Friends with Jackie Robinson instantly. Grew up in an integrated town and high school in Indiana, so was comfortable in integrated settings and with mulit-racial friends. Later, when his 4th child was born with Downs Syndrome, he and his wife raised her at home. Ethel Kennedy reached out to him to lead the special olympics in Indiana.
Dickey Betts at 80. Ramblin no more. Great guitarist.
