Rocky Colavito, 91.
Sad about Rocky. He taught me about trades. After watching Kaline & Kuenn in the OF and having a baseball card with a power-hitting Indian, The Trade happened and Colavito joined my beloved Tigers. It wasnât to be a long term celebration, but as a kid, it was quite exciting.
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Indians/Guardians fans are still lamenting that trade.
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Yeah â Harvey fell off a cliff at the plate iirc and was shuffled off to San Francisco not long afterward. Rocky had some pretty good years with the Tigers, though I think he ended up back with the Indians eventually. By that time Horton and Northrup had joined Kaline in the OF at Detroit.
The Amazing Kreskin.
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Rickey Henderson, 65. Way too young.
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Damn. I always loved that guy.
The 90âs Jim Rome interview with Tony Gwynn talking about Henderson is one of the greatest things.
âNow Rickey canât do nothinâ without breakinâ a cleatâ
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Thatâs a blow. What a legend.
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Damn.
What a player.
Best leadoff hitter ever
Nobody scored or stole more than him. Rickey was a bad man.
Bill James put it best: if you split him into two players, theyâd both be hall of Famers.
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Rickey gone. What a player. RIP.
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His combination of speed and power was unprecedented
Not gonna look it up, but he played for 25 years, right?
25 seasons exactly.
Rickey led the league with 66 stolen bases in 1998, his age 39 season. That was the age things started to break for me.
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Somewhere between 40 and 45 is when âmean time to healâ started to exceed âmean time between injuriesâ for me, and I finally stopped playing basketball during my 46th year.
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Michael Brewer of Brewer and Shipley, one-hit wonders, 80.
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Their famous album is named for the small town of Tarkio, MO, a town of about 1,200 people. I know probably a dozen people from Tarkio, MO. I know more people from Tarkio, MO than from Dallas.
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