Death Notices (OT)

[MichaelJackSchmidt]

George McGinnis, who helped return Sixers to relevancy, dies at 73

[xogfog]

Another Former Sixer...

Former UNC star Eric Montross, 52, dies of cancer

[tom81]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/12/21/robert-solow-nobel-economist-dies/

“Milton was going on about the money supply,” he recalled in 2009, “so what I said was everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my written work.”

[zambonir]

I knew that name rang a bell for other reasons (he was also drafted by the Sixers)

Ryan Minor Passes Away

[andyb]

I remember Minor pretty well. Probably not atheltic enough to be an NBA player and then just not the right fit for baseball as he was a little tall to be a good 3B and couldn't hit enough to be a regular 1B. We forget how rare the 6'7" non-pitching baseball player is still.

[bkox]

Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86

[bkox]

Herb Kohl, former US senator and owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, has died....

[tom81]

Many happy memories of listing to him. RIP

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=when+john+henry+was+a+little+baby+sitting+on+his+daddys+knee+smothers+brothers&&mid=086F1E6A8F7DCFDE5682086F1E6A8F7DCFDE5682&&FORM=VRDGAR

[bkox]

Tom Wilkinson: The Full Monty actor dies at 75

[bkox]

3-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Cale Yarborough dies

[bkox]

Glynis Johns, Who Played Mrs. Banks in ‘Mary Poppins,’ Dies at 100

[bkox]

David Soul: Starsky & Hutch actor dies aged 80

[Squire]

Former Phillies Pitching Prospect Brody Colvin, Age 33

https://twitter.com/PitchincoachPRO/status/1743704977137078479

[BaseballCat]

Wow, much too young. RIP

[bkox]

Mets Hall of Famer Bud Harrelson dies at 79

[bkox]

Joyce Randolph, Honeymooners Star, Dead at 99

[Sabin]

Hard to believe The Honeymooners only ran for one season.

[LoneStarPhan]

Hard to believe The Honeymooners only ran for one season.

That is surprising. As one who was watching TV in the 1950s, I remember more than that. I checked and confirmed that there was only one season of 39 episodes of The Honeymooners, but see that Joyce Randolph also was in 79 episodes of the Jackie Gleason Show as the character Trixie Norton. I'm sure some of my memories are from those. I think the Honeymooners was a recurring skit that was a part of the Jackie Gleason variety show. Variety shows were very common back in those days.

[Philsmania]

https://www.mlb.com/news/bud-harrelson-dies-at-79

Later played for the Phillies. He and Pete Rose got into a fight in the 1973 NLCS but would later be teammates. Kind of like Jim Thome and Rheal Cormier years later. According to Wikipedia, Rose and Harrelson avoided discussion of the fight unlike who Thome and Cormier who discussed it publicly together before reporters and at the end of doing so, laughed it off and hugged it out.

[tom81]

Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88