And yes he technically isn’t in the Hall yet; said ceremony is a month away…
Now that REALLY sucks for him.
He was actually one of the players in the very first baseball game I ever attended in person. It was his Cincinnati Reds against the Houston Astros.
If memory serves, and it probably doesn’t because I couldn’t have been older than 6, the final score was 1-0, Reds.
No, he didn’t die.
Today is Mel Brooks 99th Birthday!
And he’s making another Spaceballs movie to boot! Happy B day Mel!
Damn! We’re here at the Outback in Monroeville and the Pittsburgh game is on rain delay. The TV is showing a special about Dave and I thought it was only there to fill time until it stops raining. The sound is off and so are the captions so I didn’t know he had died until I saw a post on Facebook.
If you can remember even the approximate date you can look it up. Baseball archives everything. DesertRoomie mentioned in passing she’d dated the brother of an MLB player. I astonished her. Using the last name I found three players, only one in the proper date range. He played nine years in the bigs for three teams and was currently running a girl’s softball school in Oakland. I even zeroed in on the one game she saw him play.
Did we get Taina Elg on May 15?
The founder of Save-A-Fox (an organization that was dedicated to rescuing foxes from fur farms, getting them healthy and spayed/fixed, and finding homes for them), Mikayla Raines, has died of suicide. Various sources list her age as 29 or 30.
According to her husband, she was a victim of online bullying for the last few years.
D. Wayne Lukas, Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer with 15 wins in Triple Crown races (most recently last year’s Preakness) has died at 89.
He just announced his retirement a couple days ago. I guess he died in harness?
Comic book writer and editor Jim Shooter has died at 73.
Jimmy Swaggart age 90. I’m celebrating and he was not even on my list.
Ditto.
Broken record, I know, but I thought that guy died years ago.
Yeah, I didn’t realize he was around or if I did, I frequently forgot. I guess he got back into the ministry, too.
Jim Bakker, who we just discussed, is alive and in ministry as well.
For that matter, Robert Tilton is still alive as well. Tilton is the one where they realized his organization was throwing away any letters that did not have checks in them. I think they held them up to the light and if they saw no rectangular check shape, they dumped them.
Of all the televangelist frauds, Tilton is the purest. He does almost nothing but briefly pray and then ask nonstop for money. I almost respect how bold his fraud is. He just tells everyone they have to send him money.
Does Tilton still do that “speaking in tongues” thing where he just babbles random gibberish?
I mean, probably? It was so fake, it requires true stupidity to believe in. Seriously, though, he takes cash from those in real need. He’s truly evil.
Well, at least Swaggart had the decency of giving me some points.
I just haven’t watched any TV preachers for probably thirty years or more. I used to watch guys like Tilton and Ernest Angely and Dr Gene Scott just for the entertainment value. So I didn’t know if Tilton was still doing his schtick but hey, if it keeps the money rolling in from gullible suckers, why not?