Mugwump's Fish World
Misc Topics... yada yada => Baseball => Topic started by: P4Angels on January 23, 2015, 10:46:26 PM
RIP Mr. CUB
(http://www.playingfieldpromotions.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ernie-Banks-Autograph.jpg)
1931 to 2015
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24987175/hall-of-famer-and-cubs-legend-ernie-banks-has-died (http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24987175/hall-of-famer-and-cubs-legend-ernie-banks-has-died)
Sad day isn't it? One of the truly nice guys. "Let's play two".... 8)
Quote from: Mugwump on January 24, 2015, 06:13:29 AM
Sad day isn't it? One of the truly nice guys. "Let's play two".... 8)
Wow! What a bummer. :(
A good friend of mine, in our fantasy baseball league, just wrote this.....no one could have said it better....and a thanks to Mitch for his thoughts.....
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""As you all should know by now I think the Hall of Fame has been
cheapened over the years letting players in who have no business
standing shoulder to shoulder with Babe Ruth and Ted Williams and
Rogers Hornsby. Just for the record there is no doubt in my mind at
all that Ernie Banks belongs in the Hall of Fame.
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Played in the Negro Leagues, Army veteran, first black player on the
Cubs and wow, what a player he was. You don't have to be a Cubs fan
to mourn the loss of this man. I hope he and Ron Santo are taking
batting practice and Harry Caray is saying, "You know Banks spelled
backwards is...."