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In Remembrance Of Those We Lost In 2010
An article by Craig Lerner
I wanted to make a special post in remembrance of those we lost this past year. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, however these are immeasurable as I’m sure you will all agree.
Sparky Anderson 1934 – 2010
Jim Bibby 1944 – 2010
Phil Cavarretta 1916 – 2010
Mike Cuellar 1937 – 2010
Willie Davis 1940 – 2010
Walt Dropo 1923 – 2010
Bob Feller 1918 – 2010
Ernie Harwell 1918 - 2010
Ralph Houk 1919 – 2010
Jose Lima 1972 – 2010
Bob Mandt 1926 – 2010
Gil McDougald 1928 – 2010
Robin Roberts 1926 – 2010
Ron Santo 1940 – 2010
Bob Sheppard 1910 - 2010
George Steinbrenner 1930 – 2010
Bobby Thomson 1923 – 2010
In 2010, baseball was hit hard with the losses of some of their greatest voices, players, coaches, managers, fan favorites, Hall of Famers, and executives. Many of them changed the way the game was played, but a lot of them just made the game memorable and magical for millions of us. They are forever a part of the fabric of our National Pastime.
The venerable Marty Noble wrote a poignant review of how impactful many of them were to this game that we love so much. Go check it out at MLB.com.
There may be some that I may have missed, but we can honor them too by including them in the comments section as an addendum to this post.
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data systems engineer who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. My girlfriend and I go to about 15 games a year. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go. I bleed blue and orange.
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Great story Craig. The pictures helped to bring it home for me.
May they all rest in peace.
Let me just say that the vignette of the little boy kneeling over in an empty field with a bat is a great image.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuuq62v5Agc
Thanks for posting this – Brian Williams, the NBC Newsman had a feature like this on a recent news program. Many of the same people were included – Brian loves baseball. Somehow there seemed to be a lot of athletes this past year.
May they all rest in peace.
Nice piece
Really nice job with this. I’ll miss them all.
So sad to see we lost so many popular baseball figures. May they all rest in peace.
Death and taxes are inevitable. Manager and infielder Steve Boros died Wednesday night, Dec. 29, in Deland, Fla., where he lived the past few years.
Boros worked for more than forty years in baseball. He played for Detroit, the Cubs and Cincinnati, and coached for Kansas City, Montreal, the Dodgers and Baltimore. Boros was part of a scouting team that covered the Oakland A’s, the Dodgers’ opponent in the 1988 World Series. Boros’ group noticed that Oakland reliever Dennis Eckersley often threw a backdoor slider on 3-2 counts to left-handed hitters. That was the pitch that pinch-hitter Kirk Gibson launched off Eck for a two-out, bottom-of-the-ninth homer to win Game 1. The Dodgers went on to upset the A’s in five games.