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.
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Best leadoff hitter ever
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Nobody scored or stole more than he. Rickey was a bad man.
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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
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Not gonna look it up, but he played for 25 years, right?
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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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