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As of 2019, there were no living major leaguers who broke in during 1941 or before.

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10 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Ron Fairly dead at 81 years. He was part of the 1959 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

https://komonews.com/sports/mariners/former-seattle-mariners-broadcaster-ron-fairly-dies-at-81

 


as a huge Montreal Expos fan in the day, this sucks.  RIP.

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39 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:


as a huge Montreal Expos fan in the day, this sucks.  RIP.

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I concur.  My Expo-loving days were a couple of years later, but I very much recognize the name.

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Don Larsen, MLB pitcher for St. Louis Browns (1953-1954), New York Yankees (1955-1959), Kansas City Athletics (1960-1961), San Francisco Giants (1962-1964), amongst others, has died aged 90. The only person to pitch a perfect game in World Series history.

 

Obituaries: Daily Mail, The Sun

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1 hour ago, Thatcher said:

Don Larsen, MLB pitcher for St. Louis Browns (1953-1954), New York Yankees (1955-1959), Kansas City Athletics (1960-1961), San Francisco Giants (1962-1964), amongst others, has died aged 90. The only person to pitch a perfect game in World Series history.

I met him and got an autograph on some such memorabilia about 25 years ago.  

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Ed Sprague Sr., an original Oakland Athletic who pitched in nearly 200 games between 1968 and 1976, has died.  He was 74.  He was the father of Ed Sprague, who played over 1,200 games between 1991 and 2001 and the father-in-law of Olympic synchronized swimming gold medalist Kristen Babb-Sprague.

 

https://www.sfchronicle.com/athletics/article/Ed-Sprague-Sr-an-original-Oakland-Athletic-14965834.php

 

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George Nicolau, who arbitrated two cases in the 1980s where he found collusion among Major League baseball owners against free agents, died January 2nd.  He was 94. The cases were settled for $280 million in 1990.

 

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/george-nicolau-arbitrator-major-league-baseball-collusion-cases-dead-94/EDQVH6FHBJHHHJ3URWKWUHJRBY/

 

 

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Ramon Aviles, who played all but one of his 117 Major League games with the Philadelphia Phillies between 1979 and 1981, has died.  He was 68.

 

https://www.citizensvoice.com/sports/mickey-jeter-joe-d-among-railriders-2020-bobbleheads-1.2588749

(Obituary is after the link's main story.  Only current English language obit)

 

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Tony Fernandez,  retired all-star player for the Toronto Blue Jays,  is in a bad way with kidney disease complications.  In an induced coma while they try to figure out how to treat him. 1 day too late for The Cup.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/report-blue-jays-icon-tony-fernandez-critical-condition/sn-amp/

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Gil Coan, the third-oldest living Major League Baseball player at the time of his death, has died.  He was 97.  Coan played 918 games in the majors, mostly with the Washington Senators.  Coan died three months after his wife, to whom he'd been married for 78 years.

 

https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20200205/brevard-baseball-legend-gil-coan-passes-away

 

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5 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

Gil Coan, the third-oldest living Major League Baseball player at the time of his death, has died.  He was 97.  Coan played 918 games in the majors, mostly with the Washington Senators.  Coan died three months after his wife, to whom he'd been married for 78 years.

 

https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20200205/brevard-baseball-legend-gil-coan-passes-away

 


I used to have about 100 1951 Bowman cards... including this one

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1 minute ago, Sir Creep said:


I used to have about 100 1951 Bowman cards... including this one

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My collection only starts in the mid-1970s.  Nice picture.

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1 hour ago, alt obits guy said:

My collection only starts in the mid-1970s.  Nice picture.


yeah I started 1973 maybe as a kid.  As a young adult I got a Mickey Vernon 1951 Bowman and went from there.  Don’t know the full story but my mum was fond of Mr Vernon.  SirC damn near offspring of a baseball All Star!  Lmao.  

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Angel Echevarria, who played 328 games in the Major Leagues from 1996 to 2002, mostly with the Colorado Rockies, has died.  He was 48.  Echevarria had fallen ill...and then had fallen physically, the latter being the causal factor in his death.

 

http://connecticut.news12.com/story/41676316/exmlb-player-and-bridgeport-native-angel-echevarria-dies-at-48

 

1992 Fleer ProCards #1485 Angel Echevarria Front

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Katsuya Nomura

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2020021100286/japanese-baseball-legend-katsuya-nomura-dies-at-84.html

 

One of Japan's  biggest baseball legends is dead at 84

He spent 23 Seasons as Catcher with  Nankai Hawks from 1954-77, and was the first Japanese player to record a triple crown in 1965. Post playing career he managed the Yakult Swallows to 3 Japanese titles in the 1990's

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On 01/02/2020 at 22:40, Skinny kiltrunner said:

Tony Fernandez,  retired all-star player for the Toronto Blue Jays,  is in a bad way with kidney disease complications.  In an induced coma while they try to figure out how to treat him. 1 day too late for The Cup.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/report-blue-jays-icon-tony-fernandez-critical-condition/sn-amp/

In case anyone had Tony Fernandez in their March cup team, you don’t have to worry about him because he’s dead

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49 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

In case anyone had Tony Fernandez in their March cup team, you don’t have to worry about him because he’s dead

Damn shame.  He was a hell of a player, with a better 7-year peak WAR than that of Omar Vizquel, who very well could end up the Hall Of Fame in the next couple of years.  RIP.  

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Ed Farmer, who played 11 years in the major leagues, including a two-and-a-half year stint with the Chicago White Sox, a team whose broadcast crew he would later join and spend 30 years with, has died.  He was 70.

 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-sox/ct-ed-farmer-chicago-white-sox-dies-20200402-7rjvytltyfccddlnrcchs57rvi-story.html

 

Amazon.com: 1981 Topps Baseball Card #36 Ed Farmer Mint ...

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