RIP, Don Baylor

[nomaaa]

ill just leave this here

Who's that on the left?

i think its fred lynn

[BeefMaster]

How did Bergman die? I don't remember that one...

Wikipedia says bile duct cancer, which sounds awful.

[Gantry]

ugh

[Shooty]

Fred Lynn was on pace to be a hall of famer and then he decided to leave Fenway where he absolutely raked.

[Gantry]

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 - 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

[Nacho]

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.

[Nacho]

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)..."

[Gantry]

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. 

[nomaaa]

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