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EasyAce:
Don Larsen, who pitched only perfect game in World Series history, dies at 90
By Bill Madden
New York Daily News


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By his own admission, Don Larsen was a most imperfect fellow and therefore about the unlikeliest man to ever pitch the only perfect game in World Series history. But pitch it he did, on October 8, 1956, a 97-pitch, 2-0 gem in Game 5 that gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the Series against the Dodgers and set them up for winning their sixth world championship in eight years under manager Casey Stengel.

Larsen, 90, died Wednesday in hospice in Hayden, Idaho, of esophageal cancer, a party guy to the end who achieved baseball immortality that one sun-splashed autumn afternoon at Yankee Stadium despite an otherwise mediocre 81-91 pitching career with seven different major league teams from 1953-67 . . .
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RIP Mr. Larsen. Yogi's waiting up there for you to leap into his arms again . . .

TomSea:

--- Quote ---Former Bengals, Bucs coach Sam Wyche dies at 74
Posted by Charean Williams on January 2, 2020, 3:59 PM EST

He led the Bengals to the Super Bowl in 1988 but perhaps is best known for taking the field microphone during a game against the Seahawks in 1989. With Bengals fans pelting the field with snowballs after an official’s call went against the home team, Wyche yelled over the PA system, “Will the next person that sees anybody throw anything onto the field, point them out, and get them out of here. You don’t live in Cleveland! You live in Cincinnati!”

The line is repeated often in Cincinnati.

Wyche died Thursday at his home in Pickens, South Carolina, after a short battle with metastatic melanoma, Peter King of NBC reports. Wyche was 74.

Read more at: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/01/02/former-bengals-bucs-head-coach-sam-wyche-dies-at-74/
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Does this make 3 for 3 passings from the world of sport! I remember Sam...

mountaineer:
Billionaire Businessman Ronald Burkle's Son Andrew Found Dead at 27 in His Beverly Hills Home
The producer will be remembered as a "young man full of life," his family tells PEOPLE
By Robyn Merrett, Ashley Boucher, Chelsea White and Melody Chiu
 January 07, 2020 02:10 AM
--- Quote ---Andrew Burkle — the son of billionaire businessman Ronald Burkle — has been found dead in his Beverly Hills home, PEOPLE confirms.

Andrew was confirmed dead on Monday by authorities and will be remembered as a “young man full of life,” his family said in a statement to PEOPLE. He was 27.

“It is with the deepest regret and sadness that we announce the death of Andrew C. Burkle on January 6, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California,” his bereaved family said. “He is deeply loved by his family and friends and will be greatly missed.”

Andrew was known as a young man full of life and entrepreneurial energy. Everyone he met commented on his humble demeanor and hard work,” the statement continues. ...
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People magazine

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--- Quote ---What did Ron Burkle get out of his relationship with the Clintons? An education, he says
By Evan Halper Staff Writer
Jan. 7, 2016
1:44 PM

Befriending Bill and Hillary Clinton — and giving them access to his private 757 jet — gave Ron Burkle more insight into world affairs than any graduate program might have.

At one point the billionaire businessman was on half of all the trips the former president made abroad. Burkle says he met 47 world leaders in 47 countries. There was a private meeting Clinton held with Nelson Mandela that went on for hours; Burkle was in the room.  ...

Burkle talked about the experiences during an expansive interview with the Los Angeles Times this week, in which he also expressed ambivalence about Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, reflected on his now-dissolved $15-million business partnership with Bill Clinton and explained why he is cohosting a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate John Kasich.  ...

Burkle’s ambivalence about Hillary Clinton’s candidacy is puzzling to other Democratic power players.

The Clintons are well known to value loyalty. And Burkle may ultimately test whether he can step back in the inner circle after stepping so far out of it. ...
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Just sayin'.   :pondering: Full story at L.A. Times

Applewood:
Oh here we go.  The young man isn't even cold yet and the conspiracy theories have already started. 

So we know about the old man was a partner of the Clintons, but what do we know about the son?  Did he have drug/alcohol addictions?  Did he have a history of depression or other mental illness? 

This conspiracy chit is getting old.

mountaineer:
It was a joke, kind of in the "Epstein didn't kill himself" vein.

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