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Leroy Hoard said:
1948 Babe Ruth, American Baseball Hall of Fame slugger (MLB All-Star 1933, 34; 7 x World Series champion; 12 × AL home run leader 1918–21, 23-24, 1926–31; Boston RS, NY Yankees), dies of Nasopharynx cancer at 53
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One time my Dad and I were discussing biggest celebrity deaths...I think it must have been his story of the day JFK was shot, he was on the road all afternoon with no radio. Pulled into a diner around 5/6 o'clock pm, and all he heard was clinking silverware. Being the jovial guy he was, he asked his waitress loudly "WHAT DID SOMEONE DIE AROUND HERE?" The whole restaurant turned toward him and at least ten people starting shouting at him "You haven't heard??!!"

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I digress....during this conversation we were comparing Marilyn to Princess Di, Elvis to John Lennon, MLK to RFK...and he insisted the biggest one for him would always be Babe Ruth dying at age 53. It was shocking because he was the biggest name in all of sport, and on one knew he was sick. Hell, Memorial Sloan-Kettering never told Babe he had cancer.

Anyway, just thought that was interesting, it would have never occurred to me since it was before television first become commonplace (1955 was the first year more than half of American homes had a tv.)
 
Weiskopf was the runner up at The Masters 4 times. Collaborated with Jay Moorish in a number of outstanding golf course designs.

The following is a (partial) list of courses that Weiskopf either designed alone or co-designed:

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Brony said:
RIP Q Lazzarus of "Goodbye Horses" fame of "Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs" fame
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I heard somebody talking about Q on the radio this week. They said she was driving cab in NYC (I think) and was playing a cassette of her songs. One of her passengers said he loved her songs, sound, etc. and wanted to know all about her. The passenger was Jonathan Demme and it resulted in him using the song in Silence of the Lambs.
 
BobbyLayne said:
Tom Weiskopf

1973 Open Champion, long time commentator
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one of my favorite players growing up - Ohio guy.

He was a pretty big dude for back in the day. Saw him up close in the first Memorial tournament in 1976 hit a crazy good shot.

It's an uphill par 4 and always been pretty long - it's longer now. He had hit it left - almost on the cart path and was around 200 yds out. He had a small tree about 8-10 yds in front of him and he was standing on the cart path. He liked the lie so he chose to stand on the cart path and not take a drop.

He took out a 4 iron, click-clacked several times adjusting his feet on the cart path (metal spikes ...and they got pretty slick on cart paths) and ripped it under the tree - then it began to rise and turn into an ever so soft draw. It landed about 10 from the pin and stopped around 15 feet.

f'n amazing results and the sound ...so solid.
 
zamboni said:
Virginia Patton, 97

Niece of George Patton who played Ruth Dakin Bailey (Harry’s wife) in It’s A Wonderful Life.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Virginia Patton, Actress in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ Dies at 97

A niece of World War II general George Patton, she was worried about how she would eat buttered popcorn while wearing white gloves in the classic film.
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I missed this the other day. She was a long time celebrated member of the local community in Ann Arbor. A truly wonderful woman. Oddly I saw some articles saying she was the last surviving member of It's a Wonderful Life which is absolutely not true. At the minimum, Karolyn Grimes who played Zuzu and got maybe the most iconic line of the movie is still alive.
 
Tom Servo said:
Len Dawson has passed away at age 87. Long career in football and worked at a KC TV station while still a player.
Amusingly, the most used photo of him on Twitter is the one of him sucking on a lung dart with a bottle of Fresca beside him from Super Bowl IV.
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Always seemed like a classy guy. Loved him back in the old days of ....Christ, what was the show on HBO, Inside the NFL?
 
Tom Servo said:
Len Dawson has passed away at age 87. Long career in football and worked at a KC TV station while still a player.
Amusingly, the most used photo of him on Twitter is the one of him sucking on a lung dart with a bottle of Fresca beside him from Super Bowl IV.
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I was amused to discover recently he was the seventh son of a seventh son. That's a thing, eh. Great player and a good man.

Adjusted for the run heavy, ball control era, one of the more impressive QBs from the 1960s. Hank Stram basically invented the moving pocket with Dawson, which led to the evolution of the mobile QB. Those late 60s Chiefs teams ran the most complex offense in the league and influenced a generation of offensive coordinators.
 
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BobbyLayne said:
Weiskopf was the runner up at The Masters 4 times. Collaborated with Jay Moorish in a number of outstanding golf course designs.

The following is a (partial) list of courses that Weiskopf either designed alone or co-designed:

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I am going to be at Shanty Creek on Saturday. RIP
 
Just read about the death of Tim Page, the renowned Vietnam war photographer, in today's Boston Globe. The story is a couple days old; it's in the obits, and I only read that section every couple of days. Anyhow, it's very interesting story. Says the Globe, "Mr. Page was, in large part, the inspiration for the drugged-out, risk-taking war photographer played by Dennis Hopper in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War film, “Apocalypse Now.” " To quote Tim Page, "“What a great place to have a war,” Mr. Page told the Toronto Globe and Mail in 2016. “Good-looking women, great food, beaches, the best dope.”"

Read the Globe here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/24/metro/tim-page-storied-vietnam-war-photographer-dies-78/

And see some of Page's photography here: https://www.theguardian.com/media/g...-vietnam-war-photographers-career-in-pictures
 
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Clown Car said:
Mikail Gorbachev, 91.
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Now, hold on, chief! That would be front-page news, but I just checked The Boston Globe and the Denver Post, both of which I subscribe to, and there is no such mention of his death. Where did you get that info from, anyhow? Or don't they call you "Clown Car" for nothing??
 
johnnycakes said:
Clown Car said:
Mikail Gorbachev, 91.
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Now, hold on, chief! That would be front-page news, but I just checked The Boston Globe and the Denver Post, both of which I subscribe to, and there is no such mention of his death. Where did you get that info from, anyhow? Or don't they call you "Clown Car" for nothing??
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It's on the front page of the Washington Post. Maybe read better newspapers?
 
Mrs. Rannous said:
johnnycakes said:
Clown Car said:
Mikail Gorbachev, 91.
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Now, hold on, chief! That would be front-page news, but I just checked The Boston Globe and the Denver Post, both of which I subscribe to, and there is no such mention of his death. Where did you get that info from, anyhow? Or don't they call you "Clown Car" for nothing??
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It's on the front page of the Washington Post. Maybe read better newspapers?
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Yeah, I can see it's on the front page of the Post. The papers I subscribe to are good for local news. Maybe not so much for national news.
 
For those in the Gambling business, Alan (Dink) Denkenson passed away today from cancer. He was a guest on VSIN, played in a lot of WSOP tourneys, and was huge in horse racing and hockey wagering. He was in a gambling movie called The Best of It.
 
FairWarning said:
For those in the Gambling business, Alan (Dink) Denkenson passed away today from cancer. He was a guest on VSIN, played in a lot of WSOP tourneys, and was huge in horse racing and hockey wagering. He was in a gambling movie called The Best of It.
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I have seen a lot on him on twitter since he passed away, and watch a lot of VSiN, but not familiar. Need to catch up on this guy.
 
zamboni said:
Clown Car said:
Peter Straub

locusmag.com

Peter Straub (1943-2022)

Author Peter Straub, 79, died September 4, 2022 after a long illness. Straub was a celebrated, influential, and bestselling author of literary horror, dark fantasy, and psychological thrille…
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I read only The Talisman by him during my Stephen King fascination days in high school/college, but really enjoyed that book.
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I've read a few of his books - Ghost Story, Floating Dragon, Mystery, Shadowland, probably a couple of others I've forgotten. He's pretty versatile in his subjects and approaches. He's more "high-brow" than King usually is, but he's very good.

RIP
 
Uruk-Hai said:
zamboni said:
Clown Car said:
Peter Straub

locusmag.com

Peter Straub (1943-2022)

Author Peter Straub, 79, died September 4, 2022 after a long illness. Straub was a celebrated, influential, and bestselling author of literary horror, dark fantasy, and psychological thrille…
locusmag.com locusmag.com
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I read only The Talisman by him during my Stephen King fascination days in high school/college, but really enjoyed that book.
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I've read a few of his books - Ghost Story, Floating Dragon, Mystery, Shadowland, probably a couple of others I've forgotten. He's pretty versatile in his subjects and approaches. He's more "high-brow" than King usually is, but he's very good.

RIP
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Terrific Writer, enjoyed many of his novels, and his team ups with King were cool as hell.
 
Comedian David A. Arnold. I was at the taping of his recently released Netflix special. Only 54 and the report says “natural causes”. Not really sure what that means. Sad.

deadline.com

David A. Arnold Dies: Netflix Comedian & ‘That Girl Lay Lay’ Creator Was 54

David A. Arnold, a comedian, actor, writer and producer who headlined two Netflix comedy specials, was a writer/producer on the streamer’s Fuller House reboot and created the Nickelodeon seri…
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Can't believe that no one posted the Queen's passing. So for posterity's sake: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, aka Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom from 6 February 1952 until her death on 8 September 2022. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the second-longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country. God save the Queen.
 
James Bond said:
Can't believe that no one posted the Queen's passing. So for posterity's sake: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, aka Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom from 6 February 1952 until her death on 8 September 2022. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the second-longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country. God save the Queen.
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Well to be fair, this thread was kind of built on people who might not get their own thread (although there are certainly names in here who got their own RIP thread). Here's the main thread:

RIP Queen
 
Ramsey Lewis, one of Jazz music's greatest popularizers, died at age 87. He had a long career as a Jazz pianists but crossed over to the Pop charts in the 60s with "The In Crowd" and the 70s with "Sun Goddess". Lewis played the keyboard with a seemingly effortless sense of funk and swing.

Here he is playing "Hang On Sloopy" in a 1966 trio date with Maurice White of Earth Wind & Fire on drums.

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FairWarning said:
pretty good player for the late 70s-early 80’s Mets John Stearns, 71. He was at the Mets Old-Timers Day last month, but had been in poor health for a while.
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He had a couple of excellent baseball cards--at the plate, wide-stance, looking to step into a pitch. His photographs looked better than Bench or Fisk's.
 
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