OT: Obituaries Thread

[Gigem]

Maybe they didn’t. 

[MrNubbz]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-crosby-dead-obituary-1234664235/

DAVID CROSBY, THE singer, songwriter, and guitarist who helped shape the sound of Sixties rock and beyond, died Wednesday night(jan 18) at the age of 81. A source close to Crosby confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, but did not disclose a cause.

[MarqHusker]

RiP Burt Bacharach.   Huge catalog of beautiful songs, melodies and lyrics. 

Always partial to Do you Know the Way to San Jose.

[MrNubbz]

Damn how old was he he was like around forever when I was a kid and seemed to have a hand in every other hit somehow.

[MarqHusker]

94

[FearlessF]

Former Arizona Cardinals guard Conrad Dobler, who was with the team for six years in St. Louis, died on Monday in Pueblo, Colo., the team announced. He was 72.

Cobler was one of the NFL’s top offensive guards during his 10-year career with the Cardinals, Buffalo Bills and New Orleans Saints. The "troublemaker," as he was frequently called, and hilariously called himself in a 1987 Miller Lite commercial, earned three consecutive Pro Bowl selections from 1975-77.


“He was the kind of tough, physical and fierce player that you love to line up with as a teammate and hate to line up against as an opponent,” Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill said in a statement. “On the field, Conrad was a big reason for the success of the Cardiac Cards of the 1970s.”

The Cardinals selected Dobler with a fifth-round draft pick in 1972. He spent six years with the Cardinals, two with the Saints and two with the Bills.


https://youtu.be/21QtXjUodsg

[MrNubbz]

Raquel Welch, actor and international sex symbol, dies at 82

The Golden Globe-winning actor died Wednesday morning following a brief illness, her management company said

[FearlessF]

[Riffraft]

Rachel Welch and Lynda Carter my two celebrity lust growing up 

[FearlessF]

Tim McCarver, former standout catcher and famed baseball broadcaster, dies at 81

https://siouxcityjournal.com/sports/baseball/tim-mccarver-former-standout-catcher-and-famed-baseball-broadcaster-dies-at-81/article_41242b4a-3194-5ac2-9f62-61774154befa.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_Sioux_City_Journal&fbclid=IwAR11Du7UgCSl2WcJRMv8TrJKQq2KBQIqiIieTKXelfQFg3B0sXU670O2AM4

[Hawkinole]

Tim McCarver, former standout catcher and famed baseball broadcaster, dies at 81

https://siouxcityjournal.com/sports/baseball/tim-mccarver-former-standout-catcher-and-famed-baseball-broadcaster-dies-at-81/article_41242b4a-3194-5ac2-9f62-61774154befa.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_Sioux_City_Journal&fbclid=IwAR11Du7UgCSl2WcJRMv8TrJKQq2KBQIqiIieTKXelfQFg3B0sXU670O2AM4

I just saw him doing a commentary a night or two ago; I don't recall if it was on a current topic, but I thought it was very recent. That is a great article you linked.

[ELA]

Tim McCarver, former standout catcher and famed baseball broadcaster, dies at 81

https://siouxcityjournal.com/sports/baseball/tim-mccarver-former-standout-catcher-and-famed-baseball-broadcaster-dies-at-81/article_41242b4a-3194-5ac2-9f62-61774154befa.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_Sioux_City_Journal&fbclid=IwAR11Du7UgCSl2WcJRMv8TrJKQq2KBQIqiIieTKXelfQFg3B0sXU670O2AM4

I always liked him unlimited basis doing the national broadcasts. I'm not sure I could handle him on a day-to-day basis, as a team, broadcaster, considering how much he would overdo stuff.  I don't remember who said it, maybe Rick Riley? But they said if you asked him what time it was, he would explain to you how a watch worked. I thought that was pretty dead on

[FearlessF]

A famous Tim McCarver quote about Bob Gibson … “Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn’t score any runs” … he was also quoted as saying “I remember one time going to mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.”

[MrNubbz]

Fearless that 2nd quote was from Bob Ueker and it's in his book and I forget the pitcher but I don't think it was Gibson.Euker stated guys would get so mad when they didn't get to play but not him - he figured the less he played the longer he stayed in the Majors.

"You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team."

"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat."

"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."

"Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend."