So, who had Fidel Castro?
Anybody got Fidel?
Only like 41 people. He was third in the conch list this year after Valerie Harper and Sam Simon (if I’m reading the search results correctly)
A would-be god in dungarees, strangled by an illusion, that will-o’-the-wisp mirage that dangles from the sky in front of the eyes of all ambitious men, all tyrants.
I had Fidel for 10 points.
I might have but I can’t remember.
Your list is on page 1.
I’m pretty sure I had him, as (as I recall) I pussed out and went with the top picks in the game at time of my posting.
I didn’t. If I had a bottle of champagne chilled, though, I’d pop that cork right now, I don’t care if it’s 5:15 a.m.!
31 people had him, according to Baker back on January 1:
Five of the bandwagon 13 (Feek, Castro, Ali, Crowe, Reagan) have now kicked the bucket in 2016, which is better than usual IIRC.
If only I had remembered to play this year, I would have gotten 3 picks - Castro, Ali, and Nancy Reagan - for about 42 points
Thanks Baker. Some Dopers must get an earlier news feed than I do here on the Left Coast.
Whew! I’m glad that’s over!
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83 zadscmc 26 1 0
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Five players got their first points, and only twenty-seven players are still virgins.
This is interesting. No, really. They must be going Nutz in Miami.
It has been pointed out to me that one player did not get points for a certain celebrity, due to alternate spellings of the celebrities’ name. So carnivorousplant gets 38 points for Steve Latourette.
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52 critter42 76 3 0
52 Lsura 76 3 0
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83 Schnitte 26 1 0
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83 zadscmc 26 1 0
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And carnivorousplant can stop griping that I’m crowding him. 
Wrong year, since Sam Simon died early in 2015. (I was among the large crowd of Deathpoolers who picked up those points. :))
With Fidel, Ali, and Nancy Reagan gone, that’s a whole bunch of the ‘evergreen’ picks, the ones who show up on a lot of lists year after year.
But there’s still Valerie Harper. And a pair of ancient ex-Presidents.
This is a listing of all the celebs who had more than 10 picks. Those bolded are the ones who have passed/
Joey Feek 65
Valerie Harper 43
George H. W. Bush 40
Jimmy Carter 35
Fidel Castro 31
Muhammad Ali 24
Martin Crowe 23
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 21
Glen Campbell 21
Tommy Chong 21
Nancy Reagan 19
Kirk Douglas 18
Joost van der Westhuizen 16
The Amazing Johnathan 16
Charlie Sheen 15
Lindsay Lohan 15
Bashar al-Assad 14
Bill Cosby 13
Burt Reynolds 13
Prince Philip 13
Rob Ford 13
Clive James 12
Zsa Zsa Gabor 12
Mary Tyler Moore 11
Stephen Hawking 11
Suge Knight 11
BTW. Kirk Douglas is just two weeks from his 100th birthday.
Finally, off the schneid.
So what about Castro’s Curveball? Word around the camp fire was that he wasn’t a bad pitcher. Any Dopers know the dope?
So Baker, when can we expect the “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!!” rule book?