# Ahh man, Ernie Banks died.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [January 24, 2015, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740 "2015-01-24T07:46:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/1 "2015-01-24T07:46:09Z")
Very sorry to see this on CNN.
> **['Mr. Cub' Ernie Banks dies at 83 | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/23/us/ernie-banks-obit/index.html)**
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> Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks died Friday in Chicago, family attorney Mark Bogan said. Banks was 83.
I tried to write something deep and meaningful about him, then just gave up, because I can’t express very well.
He was a good man and a classy man, and a real ballplayer.
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### Author:  [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/2 "2015-01-24T09:28:55Z")
Playin’ two, every day now. Great man, great ballplayer. When you ask why I love baseball, it’s guys like him.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/3 "2015-01-24T09:39:29Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#):
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> Playin’ two, every day now. Great man, great ballplayer. When you ask why I love baseball, it’s guys like him.
Under the sun as God intended. No lights, no night games. A warm Sunday afternoon every day. RIP, Ernie.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/4 "2015-01-24T12:27:00Z")
Seems an appropriate time for [A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c10REBi26hU).
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/5 "2015-01-24T13:08:01Z")
I think he was almost everyone’s favorite player that didn’t play for their team.
May you play 2 every day to your heart’s content.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/6 "2015-01-24T14:28:53Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Seems an appropriate time for [A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c10REBi26hU).
Nice call Robot Arm. I grew up in the left field bleachers at Wrigley. Ernie’s 498th homer went right over my outstreched hands. I can still feel the wind from that spinning ball gliding over my finger tips.
My boyhood hero, my first hero, has died. ☹
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/7 "2015-01-25T03:13:32Z")
Even Cardinals fans loved Mr. Cub.
The story goes that Gussie Busch decided he wanted Banks for the Cardinals, and was prepared to offer the moon. P.K. Wrigley personally turned Busch down.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2015, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/8 "2015-01-25T04:34:34Z")
I am pretty sure he remains the only shortstop to win MVP Awards back to back. That he did so playing for a losing team should suggest the level of dominance he displayed. His peak was incredible.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/9 "2015-01-26T16:53:59Z")
He’s before my time, but I liked him in Home Run Derby. It was my only exposure to a number of baseball legends.
Only [six still alive](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Run_Derby_%28TV_series%29#Participants) now, which seems remarkable for a show than ran before I was born.
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### Author:  [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/10 "2015-01-26T17:21:48Z")
Mike Greenburg suggested this morning that every team play a single admission double header at some point this season or next in honor of Mr. Cub. The Cubs at least gotta make this happen.
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### Author:  [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/11 "2015-01-26T17:37:17Z")
Baseball is much poorer in spirit with Ernie gone. He was someone you actually could hold up to your children as a role model. Talented, polite, humble, kind, always smiling, always sincere. I’m so very sorry that the team couldn’t bring home a championship for Ernie. He certainly deserved it.
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### Author:  [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/12 "2015-01-26T18:09:19Z")
There was a really cool video of him on stage with Pearl Jam at a Wrigley concert. It was very sweet and the place went absolutely nuts when he came out and sang with Eddie for a bit. I’ll have to find it.
Here. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6z\_6uGo63E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6z_6uGo63E)
I have 2 Ernie Banks autographed baseball. Both signed in front of my face. And both covered in brown hand sweat and dirt from me carrying them around everywhere for a couple weeks after he signed them.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/13 "2015-01-26T18:32:16Z")
Here in Houston one of our old hangouts was at [Ernie’s on Banks](http://www.yelp.com/biz/ernies-on-banks-houston) (street).
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahh-man-ernie-banks-died/710740/14 "2015-01-26T23:01:35Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#):
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> Mike Greenburg suggested this morning that every team play a single admission double header at some point this season or next in honor of Mr. Cub. The Cubs at least gotta make this happen.
With the upgrades at Wrigley and the overall excitement surrounding this team, there’s no way the Cubs could change the schedule for a regular doubleheader , even if they doubled the ticket price.