Just yesterday he announced (or it was released under his name) that he wouldn’t attend tomorrow’s Juneteenth game in Birmingham.
It’s interesting that neither ESPN nor ESPN 2 is mentioning it. The St. Louis Cardinals game just ended, and they aren’t mentioning it on the postgame show, but CNN is in full obituary mode.
It is in the wikithingy
When I posted they had just announced the death during the Yankees broadcast.
93 is a great run, and it wasn’t unexpected, but this makes me sad. Mays was not only one of the best baseball players, but one of the best people ever.
The article mentions that with MLB’s integration of the Negro League stats into the general records earlier this month, he got ten more hits earned as a teenager in 1948 with the Birmingham Black Barons.
Just in time.
That appears to be 7 pts for blue67ccm, jdracingfan and zadscmc; first points for all 3.
The Negro Leagues were rapidly becoming irrelevant. The only reason why he got any Negro League stats was because MLB teams had to wait until he graduated high school before signing him. He only played home games with the Black Barons.
Deadline is reporting the death of Donald Sutherland. But I don’t see it anywhere else, so keeping an eye on this.
And it’s official:
Always with the negative waves
Dammit. I had him on my shortlist for next year.
Dude was 6’3. What more can you people ask for?
Get some tissues. Here is Donald Sutherland talking about how he spent his entire life thinking he was ugly.
At least 6’4” to get off the shortlist.
I finally had one this year!
Gotta be weight related if not an accident. Reminds me of Ralphie May or John Pinette.
I hope someone like Jorge Garcia or Gabriel Iglesias lose the weight. I know Jon Pinette slimmed down at the end, but it is often too late.
Reminds me of the death of Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (Somewhere over the Rainbow). He was huge, would check in/or be checked into the hospital due to weight related problems. His friends literally killed him with kindness by smuggling food into the hospital.