Baseball Passings 2019

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Don Newcombe, Brooklyn pitching ace, 92. A fixture at Dodger Stadium well beyond his years starring at Ebbets Field.

[Theoldmole]

This really hit me hard. Don Newcombe was one of my all-time favorites.

[Frayed Knot]

Newcombe was also one of the earlier players to fess up to a drinking problem.

I believe that didn't come until after his career was over (Darrel Porter was the first I remember doing a mid-career cry for help)

but, once he did, he then became an early leaning post for others in his situation.

Was often a fixture at Dodger games until fairly recently. Big dude, tough to miss.

[G-Fafif]

Newk started the fifth-to-last and second-to-last games of the 1951 season, winning complete games in both of them, throwing a shutout in the latter. In the finale, he was brought in to relieve in the eighth on no days' rest and pitched 5.1 scoreless innings; Dodgers won in 14 to tie the Giants. Then, in deciding Game Three of the pennant playoff, he carried a 4-1 lead into the ninth before Dressen pulled him with one out, two on, one run in and Thomson due up.



Four appearances over eight games, three of them starts, 32 innings in all, keeping the Dodgers alive as long as he could in perhaps the most searing duel baseball gas ever known.



Take what Johan did the final week of 2008 and at least double it.

[Chad ochoseis]

And yet, at least according to Roger Kahn, there were people who blamed him for what came after. Just like there are people who blame Beltran for 2006. Fans are dumb.



RIP.

[MFS62]

So sad. My favorite Brooklyn battery was Newk and Campy (Roy Campanella).

Now you guys can play pitch and catch again.

RIP

Later

[Edgy MD]

[G-Fafif]

Third baseman Randy Jackson, aka Handsome Ransom, 93. Socked the final homer in Brooklyn Dodger history in the club's penultimate game, off future Met Don Cardwell (then a rookie Phillie). Jackson played from 1950-59, making two All-Star teams as a Cub.

[Edgy MD]

Handsome Ransom has come for your women.



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[G-Fafif]

Scott Sanderson, Expo and Cub hurler of yore, 62.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He was a frequent This Week In Baseball interviewee

[Edgy MD]

I think of him as an Expo, as between him and Bill Gullickson, there was always a good chance we'd catch a 'son in a series against the Expos. But he was a part of that great 1985 Cubs rotation where every one of them was a retread that suddenly all recaptured their magic at the same time. It seemed like the best makeshift cobbled-together rotation I'd ever seen. Lucky punks.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I think of him as an Expo, as between him and Bill Gullickson, there was always a good chance we'd catch a 'son in a series against the Expos. But he was a part of that great 1985 Cubs rotation where every one of them was a retread that suddenly all recaptured their magic at the same time. It seemed like the best makeshift cobbled-together rotation I'd ever seen. Lucky punks.

Good memory. I played in a 1985 Strat-O-Matic NlL draft league. Sanderson was my back of the rotation stealth pick. He didn't even sniff the leader boards in '85 on account of his 121 IP's, but pound for pound, he was damn good that year.

[G-Fafif]

Frank Lucchesi, who managed the Phillies, Rangers (not to Lenny Randle's approval) and Cubs, 92.

[cal sharpie]

I went to high school with his daughter. Their living felt like a shrine to him with a giant oil painting of him in uniform over the mantle. Never did meet him.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Whoa. Angels lefty Tyler Skaggs. Don't know why/how.



He was a big prospect at one time and once part of my fantasy team (I'm sure that's what the obits will say).



He pitched yesterday! Tonight's Angels game canceled

[Willets Point]

Wow, this is shocking.

[smg58]

Just horrible.

[whippoorwill]

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Frank Lucchesi, who managed the Phillies, Rangers (not to Lenny Randle's approval) and Cubs, 92.

[Edgy MD]

Has a cause of death been released yet?

[dgwphotography]

Edgy MD wrote: Has a cause of death been released yet?

No, just that he was found unresponsive in a hotel room.

[G-Fafif]

Brooks Pounders and Rene Rivera offer their remembrances:



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[Fman99]

News reports said suicide was not suspected and foul play was not suspected, which means it was most likely either some sort of undiagnosed health issue like a heart condition or something, or (more likely) a drug overdose.

[Frayed Knot]

The one I thought of was Daryl Kile (StL) since he also died on the road in the team's hotel room and at about the same age.

That one turned out to have drugs involved although I forget the details at this point.



oe: Kile was 33

[Edgy MD]

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News reports said suicide was not suspected and foul play was not suspected, which means it was most likely either some sort of undiagnosed health issue like a heart condition or something, or (more likely) a drug overdose.

[Frayed Knot]

Mr. Conforto, please report to the office to pick up your redemption for the day.

[G-Fafif]

Joe Grzenda, 82, threw the last pitch in Washington Senators history and appeared in every third pack of baseball cards I ever bought.

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Joe Grzenda, 82, threw the last pitch in Washington Senators history and appeared in every third pack of baseball cards I ever bought.

[G-Fafif]

Honestly, I thought, “he was a Met, wasn't he?” and then decided I was imagining it.



I think I just got another one of his cards, though.

[G-Fafif]

Ernie Broglio, 83. RHP for STL who won 21 games in 1960 and 18 in 1963. Really not a bad trade target.