baseball obituaries 2016

Mike Sandlock, 100

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb-news/4700923-mike-sandlock-oldest-living-mlb-player-dies-100-brooklyn-dodgers

milt pappas

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-milt-pappas-cubs-dead-20160419-story.html

Always found him really intriguing--had already won 40 games by the time he was 21, 150 before he turned 30, wins 17 twice more after that, retires at 34. As measured by the primary benchmark of his day--by WAR, he's pretty steadily in the 3.0-4.0 range--he was on track for the HOF for the first half of his career.

yeah i looked at his stats and he put up some numbers. and it's always funny how these guys who are probably regarded now as nothing more than above-average starting pitchers would regularly go out and have 12 complete games and 3 shutouts in a season.

i remember his Cubs days in early '70s well

Great line about his near-perfect game in that obit: "Pappas then began yelling obscenities from the mound, half of them in Greek."

Lots of interesting Pappas stuff in the "Hey Bill" section of James's site.

-- short version of whether or not he was on a HOF track: "No; other than Pappas himself, nobody ever suggested that he was a Hall of Famer. He was always a #2 starter."
-- famous clubhouse lawyer
-- suspected of murdering his wife
-- published a memoir that was candid about amphetamine use in the game (post-Ball Four, I assume)
-- the main player on the other end of the Baltimore-Cincy Frank Robinson trade

So much for ordering the book--can't find a decent-shaped copy for under $25.

A's prospect Sean Murphy, 27.
http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20160426&content_id=174662854&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

Sammy Ellis, 22-game winner for the Reds in '65, later a Yankees pitching coach

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/15552145/former-big-league-pitcher-sammy-ellis-dies-age-75

Dick "Mad Dog" McAuliffe of the '68 Tigers

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2016/5/17/11678368/detroit-tigers-dick-mcauliffe-dies-1968-world-series

@Dan_Dickerson
....with his HR, Kinsler became first #Tigers leadoff man to HR in 4 straight gm since Dick McAuliffe in April of 1969...

i'm surprised it was that recently.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ci7e8SVUUAAw5wH.jpg

jim ray hart

appears in my oldest scorebooks...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkmEkxoVEAAGNhw.jpg

gordie howe, first baseman of the 1951 saskatoon 55s

Jim Hickman of the '62 Mets and '69 Cubs

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/news/jim-hickman-death-cubs-mets-age-79-outfielder-first-base-all-star/zu6ve8z1eycn12vpj4kwg47ym

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cp7g5XFVMAAhAzn.jpg:small

“What’s your wife’s name and what’s she like?”

“Mrs. Coleman, and she likes me, Bub.”

ralph branca

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ralph-branca-beloved-brooklyn-dodgers-pitcher-dead-90-article-1.2884710

The Dodgers lose the pennant.

Had a chance at Cooperstown to get him and Thomson to co-sign something, but I was just against the idea of paying for an autograph. Now wish I'd gotten the two of them and Don DeLillo to sign a copy of Libra.

underworld?

saw him a couple times at Cyclones/Mets games. RIP

(xpost) That's what I meant, yeah.

Fidel Castro.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953

― clemenza, Saturday, November 26, 2016 12:36 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that Yankee tryout story is proven bullshit btw

Original '62 Met, first Padres All-Star Chris Cannizzaro, on New Years Eve

http://m.mets.mlb.com/news/article/212607370/original-met-padre-chris-cannizzaro-dies/

daryl spencer, who hit the first homer in san francisco giants history

Art 'Superman' Pennington, an All-Star Negro Baseball League player in the 1940s, died Wednesday night at the age of 93.

http://www.thegazette.com/storyimage/GA/20170105/ARTICLE/170109815/AR/0/AR-170109815.jpg&MaxH=500&MaxW=650

longtime cubs scout stan zielinski, who signed schwarber and samardzija (and long before that, cliff floyd)

journeyman right-hander/occasional pitching coach jackie brown

longtime scout harry minor, who convinced the mets to draft dwight gooden, among other things

http://m.mets.mlb.com/news/article/213869442/longtime-scout-harry-minor-left-impact-on-game

Yordano ventura in a car accident

And Andy Marte

jesus what's with young players dying

ugh. RIP Ventura and Marte. :(

Ventura was the opposing SP in Marte's last mlb game

You guys remember this?

http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2014/10/31/kansas-city-royals-yordano-ventura-plays-softball-kids-day-after-game-7

So sad :(