Official Baseball In Memoriam Thread

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Tony Scott, a CFer for the Expos, Cardinals and Astros from 1973-1984, died at age 72. RIP.

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A 12 year-old Sean Burroughs on the David Letterman Show:

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Sean Burroughs, a 3B who had a 7yr career largely with the Padres, and was a 2x LLWS champ and the son of 1974 AL MVP Jeff Burroughs, died at age 43. RIP.

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Dave McCarty, the number 3 overall pick in the 1991 draft who never quite hit those expectations but still had an 11-year career culminating in a title with the 2004 Red Sox, died at age 54. RIP.



Odell Jones, a journeyman pitcher who had a 9 year career with the Pirates, Rangers, Mariners, Orioles & Brewers, and who's best day was a near no-hitter that went into the 9th on May 28, 1988, died at age 71. RIP.

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Whitey Herzog, the legendary Hall of Fame manager, died at age 92. RIP.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum remembers Whitey Herzog.

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Dodger legend Carl Erskine, who played his entire career with the Brooklyn/LA Dodgers and pitched 2 no hitters, died at age 98. RIP.

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Whitey Herzog, the legendary Hall of Fame manager, died at age 92. RIP.

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Ken Holtzman, a pitcher who had a 15yr career with the Cubs, Yankees, Orioles & A's, who won 21 games for the Oakland world champions in 1973, died at age 78. RIP.

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Fritz Peterson, a starting pitcher for 11 years from 1966-1976 primarily with the Yankees, and who won 20 games in 1970 but perhaps is better known for swapping families with teammate Mike Kekich in 1973, died at age 82. RIP.

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Jerry Grote, a longtime catcher primarily for the NY Mets from 1966-1977, and the starter on their 1969 Miracle Mets WS team, died at age 81. RIP.

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Pat Zachry, the 1976 NL Rookie of the Year who was the main piece the Mets received in the infamous "Midnight Massacre" Tom Seaver trade, died at age 71. He's also the 2nd member of the 1976 Big Red Machine rotation to pass away in the last 5 weeks. RIP.

He played at the HS where I now teach. When we moved here in the 1990s his name was still big locally.

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Pat Zachry, the 1976 NL Rookie of the Year who was the main piece the Mets received in the infamous "Midnight Massacre" Tom Seaver trade, died at age 71. He's the 2nd member of the rotation and 3rd overall player of the 1976 Big Red Machine to pass away in the last 5 weeks. RIP.

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Larry Lucchino, former president/CEO of the Orioles (1989-1993), Padres (1995-2001) and Red Sox (2002-2015), died at age 78. RIP.

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Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos died at age 94. RIP.

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from wiki

Known as a tough, no-nonsense player, Ott was a former Muncy High School star wrestler who was not afraid to use those skills on a baseball diamond. In an August 12, 1977, game against the New York Mets, Ott slid hard into Mets' second baseman Felix Millán trying to break up a double play.^[2] Millán shouted at Ott and hit him with a baseball in his hand. Ott answered this by picking Millan up in a wrestling move, upending him, and then slamming him into his extended knee at Three Rivers Stadium, severely injuring Millan's shoulder.^[10] The incident effectively ended Millan's MLB playing career.<sup>[2]

Other trivia. Not known to be related to Mel Ott</sup>

Wow, I hadn't heard about that one.

I remember Ott being a hard-ass. Pirates fans loved him. Other teams fans....not so much.

One of my earliest memories of Ed Ott when I was a kid was a game I watched on TV where an opposing player threw his helmet at Ott after a play at the plate and then cowardly ran away. Ott then dropped his catcher's mitt, picked the helmet off the ground, and proceeded to rip the helmet in half, and then threw the two halves of the helmet back toward the player who threw it at him all while angrily staring him down. As a kid I'm thinking: "Whoa the Pirates catcher is the Incredible Hulk."

Also from Wiki:

Ott later became a coach with the Houston Astros, serving under manager and former Pirates teammate Art Howe, from 1989 to 1993, where he is remembered for his role in an on-field altercation against the Cincinnati Reds. In 1991, Reds reliever Rob Dibble ignited a brawl when he threw a pitch behind the back of the Astros' Eric Yelding, late in the game of a 4–1 Reds loss. A melee ensued and the 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), 230 lb (100 kg), Dibble wound up on the bottom of a pile with the relatively diminutive Ott having put Dibble in such a chokehold that Dibble's face turned blue.