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  • RenoZag
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    • Feb 2007
    • 42497

    #31
    “He’s in the last sentence of greatest player of all time,” Jackson said. “Aaron, Ruth, Mays, Gehrig, Mantle — I don’t know that Ted Williams gets there because he couldn’t run like those guys — and Ty Cobb and Rickey Henderson. So they’re in a class by themselves, and I think for sheer talent, Griffey is in there, too. The game was easy for those guys.”

    All plaques are the same size in the Hall of Fame gallery. Officially, Aaron and Mays share the same status as Elmer Flick and High Pockets Kelly. Unofficially, a few rise far above the rest.

    “Reggie used to say there’s Hall of Famers and then there’s really Hall of Famers,” Palmer said with a laugh. “Maybe only Reggie can say it, but it’s true: This is Hank Aaron! When you think of the great players, you think of Ted Williams, you think of Stan Musial, you think of Willie Mays. I mean, I was a good pitcher, but I wasn’t Tom Seaver. And Hank Aaron — it’s like getting to the top of the mountain.”

    Beyond that, Palmer said, Aaron personified class. Jackson said Aaron carried himself with a kind of regal dignity that few others have had: Joe DiMaggio and Sandy Koufax, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Julius Erving.

    “There’s something about them,” Jackson said. “There’s some kind of angel or some kind of sainthood that’s around them. If they were in England, they’d all be knighted.”
    The Braves slugger occupied the rarefied space of a player who stands out in every crowd — even one full of Hall of Famers.
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    • Rangerzag
      Zag for Life
      • Feb 2007
      • 5657

      #32
      Larry King, legendary talk show host, dies at 87

      Larry King, the longtime CNN host who became an icon through his interviews with countless newsmakers and his sartorial sensibilities, has died. He was 87.
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      "thnk god for few" jazzdelmar(12/12/11 12:50pm)
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      "When most of us couldn't buy a basket. Where do we get off anyway?!" siliconzag (11/17/06 5:45:41 pm)
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      • RenoZag
        Super Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 42497

        #33
        Jimmie Rodgers, whose smooth voice straddled the line between pop and country and brought him a string of hits — none bigger than his first record, “Honeycomb,” in 1957 — died on Monday in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 87.

        His daughter Michele Rodgers said that the cause was kidney disease and that he had also tested positive for Covid-19.

        Mr. Rodgers was a regular presence on the pop, country, R&B and easy listening charts for a decade after “Honeycomb,” with records that included “Oh-Oh, I’m Falling in Love Again” (1958) and “Child of Clay” (1967), both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards.

        He might have continued that run of success but for an ugly incident in December 1967, when he was pulled over by a man who, he later said, was an off-duty Los Angeles police officer and beat him severely.

        Three brain surgeries followed, and he was left with a metal plate in his head. He eventually resumed performing, and even briefly had his own television show, but he faced constant difficulties. For a time he was sidelined because he started having seizures during concerts.

        “Once word gets out that you’re having seizures onstage, you can’t work,” he told The News Sentinel of Knoxville, Tenn., in 1998. “People won’t hire you.”

        Mr. Rodgers was found to have spasmodic dysphonia, a disorder characterized by spasms in the muscles of the voice box, a condition he attributed to his brain injury. Yet he later settled into a comfortable niche as a performer and producer in Branson, Mo., the country music mecca, where he had his own theater for several years before retiring to California in 2002.

        Rodgers was borin Camas, WA.
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        • RenoZag
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          • Feb 2007
          • 42497

          #34
          Al Downing, on Hank Aaron

          From the NYT:

          Q: When you think about all that, how do you sum up Aaron’s legacy?

          AD: It shows you how great an impact not only sports, but also the sportsmen, the person carrying the message, can have on society and trying to bridge that gap that exists between cultures. He definitely personified that. He did it with such dignity, such grace, and it wasn’t like, “Oh, I showed you I could do this.” He showed ’em with his bat and with his legs and with his glove.

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          • RenoZag
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            • Feb 2007
            • 42497

            #35
            Cloris Leachman, age 94.

            After years of landing small roles on television, Leachman had her breakthrough playing the landlady, Phyllis, on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in the '70s ... which led to her own spin-off.

            She won 2 Emmys for the role, and a Golden Globe for Best TV Actress for "Phyllis."

            In film, Cloris is best known for 2 movies she made during the same time period -- "The Last Picture Show" in 1971, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress ... and 1974's "Young Frankenstein." With 22 Emmy noms, she's the most nominated actress in history, and her 8 wins is the most of all time ... tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
            RIP, Frau Blucher. . .

            Cloris Leachman -- the incredibly talented and hilarious actress and comedian, who starred in some of the biggest movies and TV shows ever -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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            • Jazzgirl_127
              Zag for Life
              • Mar 2007
              • 1385

              #36
              Originally posted by RenoZag View Post
              Cloris Leachman, age 94.



              RIP, Frau Blucher. . .
              *Horses neigh

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              • RenoZag
                Super Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 42497

                #37
                Actress Cicely Tyson, Age 96.



                “I have managed Miss Tyson’s career for over 40 years, and each year was a privilege and blessing,” her manager, Larry Thompson, said in a statement. “Cicely thought of her new memoir as a Christmas tree decorated with all the ornaments of her personal and professional life. Today she placed the last ornament, a Star, on top of the tree.”
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                • RenoZag
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                  • Feb 2007
                  • 42497

                  #38
                  Former Temple Basketball Coach, John Cheney, age 89. Cheney will be remembered for the legendary teams he produced. He'll also be recalled for threatening to kill John Calipari when Cal was the coach at UMass





                  Katz, Davis, and others are reporting the Johns put the incident behind them, had fun with it, and did not let it define their relationship.

                  RIP, Coach.
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                  • 23dpg
                    Zag for Life
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 10575

                    #39
                    Dustin Diamond

                    Wow, that was quick. RIP

                    Best known for his role as Screech on hit sitcom and its spinoffs, the actor died of lung cancer just three weeks after being diagnosed.
                    Birds aren’t real.

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                    • RenoZag
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                      • Feb 2007
                      • 42497

                      #40
                      Hal Holbrook, Actor Who Channeled Mark Twain, Is Dead at 95 . He carved out a substantial career in television and film but achieved the widest acclaim with his one-man stage show, playing Twain for more than six decades.
                      Last edited by RenoZag; 02-02-2021, 03:33 PM.
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                      • RenoZag
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                        • Feb 2007
                        • 42497

                        #41
                        John J. Sweeney, a New York union researcher who climbed to the pinnacle of the American labor movement in the 1990s, leading the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for 14 years through an era of fading union membership but rising political influence, died on Monday at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 86.

                        Carolyn Bobb, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. spokeswoman, confirmed the death. She did not specify the cause.

                        As president, from 1995 to 2009, of the nation’s largest labor federation — 56 unions with 10 million members near the end of his tenure — Mr. Sweeney flexed labor’s political muscle with thousands of volunteers and helped elect Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008. Over the years, he also helped elect Democrats to seats in Congress, to governorships and to state legislatures
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                        “They go to school. They do their homework. They shake hands. They say please and thank you. But once you throw that ball up, they will rip your heart out and watch you bleed.” -- Jay Bilas

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                        • RenoZag
                          Super Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
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                          #42
                          Rennie Davis, who lived out one of the more quixotic journeys of the 1960s generation when he went from leading opponent of the Vietnam War, as a convicted member of the Chicago Seven, to spokesman for a teenage Indian guru, died on Tuesday at his home in Longmont, Colo. He was 79.

                          His wife, Kirsten Liegmann, who announced the death on his Facebook page, said the cause was lymphoma, adding that a large tumor had been discovered only two weeks ago.

                          Smart, charismatic and a blur of energy and engagement, Mr. Davis was a leading figure of the antiwar movement. After graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio, he joined the top ranks of the activist organization Students for a Democratic Society and the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
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                          “They go to school. They do their homework. They shake hands. They say please and thank you. But once you throw that ball up, they will rip your heart out and watch you bleed.” -- Jay Bilas

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                          • RenoZag
                            Super Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 42497

                            #43
                            Tony Trabert, who won five Grand Slam tournament titles in a single year, 1955 — three in singles and two in doubles — making him the world’s No. 1 men’s player for a second time, died on Wednesday at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He was 90.

                            His death was announced by the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., where he was inducted in 1970.

                            A sturdy 6-foot-1 and 185 pounds, Trabert drew on a powerful serve-and-volley game and an outstanding backhand in capturing the 1955 men’s singles at the French, Wimbledon and United States championships and teaming with Vic Seixas to take the men’s doubles at the Australian and French events. He had also been ranked No. 1 in 1953.

                            Only Don Budge, who won all four men’s singles majors in 1938, and Rod Laver, who matched that feat in 1962 and 1969, have exceeded Trabert’s 1955 singles accomplishment, a mark that has been matched by several others.
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                            “They go to school. They do their homework. They shake hands. They say please and thank you. But once you throw that ball up, they will rip your heart out and watch you bleed.” -- Jay Bilas

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                            • RenoZag
                              Super Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 42497

                              #44
                              Christopher Plummer, the prolific and versatile Canadian-born actor who rose to celebrity as the romantic lead in perhaps the most popular movie musical of all time, was critically lionized as among the pre-eminent Shakespeareans of the past century and won an Oscar, two Tonys and two Emmys, died on Friday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 91.

                              His wife, Elaine Taylor, said the cause was a blow to the head as a result of a fall.

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                              “They go to school. They do their homework. They shake hands. They say please and thank you. But once you throw that ball up, they will rip your heart out and watch you bleed.” -- Jay Bilas

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                              • Jazzgirl_127
                                Zag for Life
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 1385

                                #45
                                Originally posted by RenoZag View Post
                                Christopher Plummer Passes Away At 91

                                https://deadline.com/2021/02/christo...ar-1234688379/
                                We just watched The Sound of Music last week. I hadn't watched it since I was a little kid and it was everyone else's first time seeing it.

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