Obituaries - Gone but not forgotten.

[youthathletics]

Love his music on Sunday afternoons, occasionally sneaking up on the wife for a slow dance.

RIP James

[Jim Malone]

If anyone is game, how about a comprehensive list of main usernames who are dearly departed that I could price putting on a LaxPower one size fits all baseball cap to identify those who remain at games and honor those who could not attend but are there in spirit. Someone could send me the artwork for new logo here. I'll try for some made in USA ones to shift the trade deficit back our way!


Still wear my SBU Ron Lavalle hat most of season as does my coach.


ArtfulDodger
2BadKnees
LaxFi

[ChairmanOfTheBoard]

imp

[DD-Tech]

JeffCincy

[dislaxxic]

Frank Robinson, Orioles great, 83

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[Brooklyn]

Frank Robinson, Orioles great, 83

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As player, Robinson was the total package. But as manager he was seriously flawed. I well remember how baseball critics in NY said he was particularly harsh towards black players on his team as he demanded more production from them than from anyone else. It was said back then that he destroyed the career of Charlie Spikes who at one time was touted as the next Hank Aaron. Dunno if these allegations were true but that's what baseball commentators said.

RIP.

[jhu72]

Frank Robinson, Orioles great, 83

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As player, Robinson was the total package. But as manager he was seriously flawed. I well remember how baseball critics in NY said he was particularly harsh towards black players on his team as he demanded more production from them than from anyone else. It was said back then that he destroyed the career of Charlie Spikes who at one time was touted as the next Hank Aaron. Dunno if these allegations were true but that's what baseball commentators said.

RIP.

I really didn't pay a lot of attention to him as a manager. As a player, he was very special. The deal that brought him to Baltimore was one of the all time great trades, made by any team. A color blind organization would never have let him go. Earl Weaver claimed he knew the minute the trade was made, that the Orioles would win multiple championships in the years immediately following - and they did.

[foreverlax]

“Today is a very sad day because I lost not only my teammate, but also a very dear friend,’’ fellow Orioles legend Brooks Robinson said in a statement released by the Orioles. “I loved Frank and got to know him so much better after we both retired. … As a player, I put Frank in a class with Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle. He was the best player I ever played with.”

Two of my baseball heroes.

[Brooklyn]

I really didn't pay a lot of attention to him as a manager. As a player, he was very special. The deal that brought him to Baltimore was one of the all time great trades, made by any team. A color blind organization would never have let him go. Earl Weaver claimed he knew the minute the trade was made, that the Orioles would win multiple championships in the years immediately following - and they did.

Those sure were great days for the game of baseball. How I cherished them! Sad to say, the game is not as much fun for me nowadays. Back then you could expect a game to be completed in less than 2 hours. Some DH's taking no more than 4 hours. Today, most games last over 3 hours - 3 hours of sheer boredom with endless commercials, kiss cam, and other disruptions that have nothing to do with baseball.

How I wish I could bring back those times!

[dislaxxic]

Albert Finney, five-time Oscar nominee, dead at 82

Great career...



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[wahoomurf]

Requiescat in pace you brave and extraordinarily talented warrior.BOOYAH operator Kent. We got the watch.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/s ... gRead&te=1

[Brooklyn]

Puerto Rican born HW wrestling Champ Pedro Morales, 76:

https://tinyurl.com/y2zpajqt


Generally acknowledged as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Won many world and regional championships as individual and tag team partner:

[Brooklyn]

Peter Tork of the Monkees:






they sure were a fun loving bunch

[dislaxxic]

More on Peter Tork, 77

R.I.P.



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[cradleandshoot]

More on Peter Tork, 77

R.I.P.



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Thanks for your post Dis. Both of my sisters loved the Monkees and for some strange reason they both loved Peter Tork. It brings me back to a time in my life where my sisters had gotten over the Beatles and found a new musical love. Some of the excess posters wound up on my bedroom wall. The Monkees were the manufactured group that they were. They did have some impressive song writers in Carol King and Neil Diamond. Almost forgotten also Harry Nillson, Neil Sedaka and Michael Martin Murphy... who had that mega hit from my senior year in high school... Wildfire"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3OnSQc48s

[ardilla secreta]

Peter Tork of the Monkees:






they sure were a fun loving bunch

Jane Goodall in great distress. The world needs more Monkees, not less.

[Brooklyn]

Jane Goodall in great distress. The world needs more Monkees, not less.

I sure do like that kool shirt as it's kinda 60s-ish.

[youthathletics]

Luke Perry, star of 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and 'Riverdale' dead at 52

[Brooklyn]

King Kong Bundy, 61, inventor of the Fabulous Five Count:





https://www.express.co.uk/sport/wwe/109 ... llies-news

[Brooklyn]

UCI biker Kelly Catlin, 23:

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-ne ... ide-at-23/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Catlin