Last Ups (the 2007 baseball death thread)

r.i.p.

bill robinson

Phil Rizzuto

hooooly cow :(

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who else owns his 'poetry' book?

RIP ;_;

who else owns his 'poetry' book?

i do -- i still have it somewhere.

his thoughts on thurman munson's death were very moving -- i don't know if i could read that today & not cry a little.

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“They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.”

The Diamond Dude by Ogden Nash

In the life of this dandiest of shortstops
Fashion starts the moment sports stops.
Since he works for the Newark American Shop
Of which Mac Stresin is the Prop,
The wardrobe acquired by Phil Rizzuto
Is as tasty as melon and prosciutto.
Thirty-five suits and twenty-odd jackets
Proclaim he's a man in the upper brackets.
There are fifteen overcoats hung in line,
And twenty-five pairs of shoes to shine,
And as for shirts and ties and socks,
Philip has more than Maine has rocks.
The suits are neat and unostentatious,
But as for sports clothes, goodness gracious!
No similar sight is to be had
This side of Gary Crosby's dad.
Does this make Mrs. Rizzuto ecstatic?
No. She has to hang her clothes in the attic.

Source: Life (September 5, 1955)

anyway, re rizzuto's on-air thoughts on thurman munson i found them on-line:

"If you keep thinking about what happened, and you can't understand it, that's what really drives you to despair. Faith. You gotta have faith. You know, they say time heals all wounds. And I don't quite agree with that a hundred percent. It gets you to cope with wounds. You carry them for the rest of your life."

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BUNS

He has powerful legs and cute buns,
That Henderson.
That was a great shot,
Going to second base there.
There's nothing wrong with that, White.
That's a popular expression.
High, and it's one and one.
His legs were churning.

[May 10, 1987 / New York at Minnesota / Charlie Hudson pitching to Al Newman / Third inning, no outs, bases empty / Yankees lead 4-0]

i did not know that:

Phil Rizzuto is dead at 89. To millions and millions, he was the Yankees’ shortstop and announcer. Yet for all the postseason glories he witnessed and World Series victories he worked, Rizzuto’s most famous play-by-play call came in a pop song: He was the voice of Meat Loaf’s “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” the Bruce Springsteen–meets–Andrew Lloyd Webber opus that, speaking of summer songs, was a mainstay on local album rock stations in the summer of ’78. (Meat’s duet partner is Karla DeVito, who went on to become a Clash backup singer and Mrs. Robby Benson.)

Legend holds that the Scooter felt blindsided when he learned that his monologue, full as it was of baseball lingo, would be used to call one of Mr. Loaf’s attempted sexual conquests. Holy cow, indeed.

--from washington citypaper

joe kennedy. mysteriously dead at 28.

this came as a surprise. i wonder what happened.

where's Joe Nuxhall?