http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20272947/don-baylor-1979-american-league-mvp-angels-dies-age-68
Read his autobiography in junior high school. Multiple people gave me shit for it. I found it interesting.
Mostly unrelated, but Darren Daulton died yesterday too.
RIP DB Sweeny, aka Fred Taylor Baylor
Big bat in the Red Sox lineup. Will play a game tonight in his honor.
Yep, total stud. Faster than you would expect as well, total package...
My first post in years. Saw the news and had to pay my respects. Legend.
Fuck.
I haven't updated my database in a while, probably a few Arcade guys have passed in the last 2 years too. I may get around to it.
So sad, love Baylor. Isn't he the all-time HBP king?
Biggio passed him, I think.
My first RBI Wiki update in ages:
http://wiki.dee-nee.com/wiki/Don_Baylor
Looks like I never made an RIP category, list all the RBI'ers who have passed away.
Hell, made a front page update as well...
ill just leave this here
Fuck yeah. Nice find.
Rod Carew would be a mediocre RBI player, so it's probably best he wasn't in it...
Quote from: Gantry on 08/07/17, 08:56:09 PM
Looks like I never made an RIP category, list all the RBI'ers who have passed away.
Found a post from a few years ago and added some others that I remembered:
Moore
Puckett
Uribe
Dave Smith
Carter
Gwynn
Bergman
Henderson
Baylor
Any others we're forgetting?
I was going to post how surprising it was that everyone on the NY Mets has survived so far - but then I remembered Carter :(
How did Bergman die? I don't remember that one...
Quote from: nomaaa on 08/08/17, 11:04:37 AM
ill just leave this here
Who's that on the left?
Quote from: GDavis on 08/08/17, 12:17:33 PM
I was going to post how surprising it was that everyone on the NY Mets has survived so far - but then I remembered Carter :(
I could have sworn Darryl Strawberry was dead.
Thanks for the list Beefy, I'll update the wiki
Quote from: Nacho on 08/08/17, 12:24:36 PM
How did Bergman die? I don't remember that one...
Wikipedia says bile duct cancer, which sounds awful.
ugh
Fred Lynn was on pace to be a hall of famer and then he decided to leave Fenway where he absolutely raked.
Quote from: Gantry on 08/08/17, 12:48:36 PM
Thanks for the list Beefy, I'll update the wiki
The wiki has been updated, all dead RBI'ers (NES) are in the RIP category (http://wiki.dee-nee.com/wiki/Category:R.I.P.) - any more RBI'ers missing? Remember that thing about pinch hitters with a last name of H having more power? It's clear from that page that having a first letter of D makes you more prone to dying.
Each player page now has a blurb about their death and most death link to a "Notable RBI events in X year" page, like 2006:
http://wiki.dee-nee.com/wiki/2006
Might want to clean up the Donnie Moore page a bit. No mention of his death in the main entry, and the bullet-point for his death (pun maybe intended?) just lists the date of death, not that he actually died on that day.
Also, Puckett's entry is the only one with standard birth and death dates listed in parenthesis behind his name, i.e. "Kirby Puckett (March 14, 1960 - March 6, 2006)..."
Those two were already in there, but yeah your points are valid. Would love to standardize but that would take a monumental effort and I'd need help.
Let me throw this out there, how many people would be willing to put in 20-30 minutes or so of work on the wiki to improve it? Maybe we'll do "adopt an RBI'er" where everyone picks a player (or two) and cleans up their page, adds funny pics, etc. Editing the wiki is darn simple not much different than editing a forum post.
That said, I'll do the birth and death thing in parenthesis for all the RIPs shortly.
Quote from: Gantry on 01/14/18, 11:12:55 AM
Those two were already in there, but yeah your points are valid. Would love to standardize but that would take a monumental effort and I'd need help.
Let me throw this out there, how many people would be willing to put in 20-30 minutes or so of work on the wiki to improve it? Maybe we'll do "adopt an RBI'er" where everyone picks a player (or two) and cleans up their page, adds funny pics, etc. Editing the wiki is darn simple not much different than editing a forum post.
That said, I'll do the birth and death thing in parenthesis for all the RIPs shortly.
hth