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☆ Whitey Herzog, Hall of Fame Cardinals Manager, Dies at 92
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Whitey Herzog, the Hall of Fame manager who led the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and a World Series championship in the 1980s, died on Monday in St. Louis. He was 92 and had been the second-oldest Hall of Famer after Willie Mays. “Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it,” Herzog liked to say. Signed by the Yankees in 1949, he never made it out of their minor league system, though he picked up a lifetime of baseball knowledge from Manager Casey Stengel at spring training camps. He played the outfield for four American League teams over eight seasons with only modest success.

Persons: Whitey Herzog, St . Louis, Willie Mays, ” Herzog, Casey Stengel, Herzog Organizations: of Fame, St, Louis Cardinals, of Famer, Cardinals, “ Baseball, Yankees, American League, Royals, Busch Locations: St ., Kansas City

☆ Lou Conter, Last Survivor of the Battleship Arizona, Dies at 102
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lou Conter, the last known survivor of the battleship Arizona, which sank with the loss of 1,177 sailors and Marines in Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, plunging the United States into World War II, died on Monday at his home in Grass Valley, Calif. “The ship was consumed in a giant fireball,” he wrote in his memoir, “The Lou Conter Story: From U.S.S. Arizona Survivor to Unsung American Hero” (2021), a collaboration with Annette C. Hull and Warren R. Hull. Mr. Conter, who was knocked forward but uninjured, tended to survivors, many of them blinded and badly burned. Only 93 of those who were aboard the ship at the time lived; 242 other crew members were ashore.

Persons: Lou Conter, Louann Daley, Conter, ”, Annette C, Warren R Organizations: Associated Press, U.S.S . Arizona Survivor, Unsung, Hull Locations: Arizona, Pearl, United States, Grass Valley, Calif, Honolulu , Hawaii, U.S.S .

☆ Frank Borman, Astronaut Who Led First Orbit of the Moon, Dies at 95
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Apollo 8 carried three astronauts farther from Earth than anyone had ever traveled. It orbited the lunar surface 10 times, flying nearly 60 miles above its surface, to photograph a bleak and rock-strewn terrain, seeking potential landing spots for the moonwalks to come. Mr. Borman, who never set foot on the moon — and by his own account had no desire to do so — flew in space twice. In December 1965, he commanded the two-man Gemini 7 spacecraft on a 14-day flight that set what was then a record for time spent in space. Gemini 7 rendezvoused with Gemini 6A as it orbited Earth, a significant step toward perfecting a similar maneuver that would be required when astronauts reached the moon.

Persons: Frank Borman, Borman, — Organizations: NASA, Apollo, Gemini Locations: America, Billings, Mont

☆ Frank Howard, Towering Slugger Whose Homers Were, Too, Dies at 87
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Frank Howard, the Bunyanesque slugger who struck some of baseball’s more awesome home runs for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Washington Senators while rolling up a prodigious strikeout total as well, unable to conquer his penchant for chasing bad balls, died on Monday in Aldie, Va. His death, at a hospital, was caused by complications of a stroke, his daughter Catherine Braun said. Listed at 6-foot-7 and 255 pounds — though well above that weight at times — Howard played for 16 seasons in the major leagues and hit 382 homers. Many of his home runs — and even some hits that didn’t clear the fence — were unforgettable. As a Dodger in 1960, he hit a ball over the left-field wall at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh that was found alongside a parked car some 560 feet from home plate.

Persons: Frank Howard, Catherine Braun, — Howard Organizations: Los Angeles Dodgers, Washington Senators, American League, Dodger, Forbes Field Locations: Aldie, Va, Pittsburgh

☆ Brooks Robinson, Slick-Fielding Hall of Fame Third Baseman, Dies at 86
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Brooks Robinson, the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer who was perhaps the finest third baseman in baseball history, has died. His death was announced by the Orioles in a statement that did not include further information. In his 23 seasons with the Orioles, from 1955 to 1977, Robinson became known as the Human Vacuum Cleaner for his ability to snare just about anything hit his way. Robinson played on four pennant-winning teams, two of them World Series champions. (The Orioles also beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in four games in the 1966 Series.)

Persons: Brooks Robinson, Robinson, backhanding, Greg Maddux Organizations: Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer, Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers

☆ Johnny Lujack, a Star Quarterback at Notre Dame, Dies at 98
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Johnny Lujack, the celebrated Notre Dame quarterback who won the 1947 Heisman Trophy, played on three national championship teams and then starred in the N.F.L. His death was announced by Notre Dame. When the 1947 college football season began, Lujack was on the cover of Life magazine, kneeling in his green jersey, gold helmet and pants. He was the most publicized Notre Dame player since the 1920s, when Knute Rockne, the Gipper and the Four Horsemen transformed a small Roman Catholic university in the obscure city of South Bend, Ind., into a trademark of popular culture. He was a two-time all-American and played in only one losing football game at Notre Dame.

Persons: Johnny Lujack, Lujack, Knute Rockne Organizations: Notre Dame, Chicago Bears, Roman Catholic university, College Football Hall of Fame, Heisman Locations: Florida, South Bend, Ind

☆ Frank Field, Who Brought Expertise to TV Weathercasting, Dies at 100
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Frank Field, who as a meteorologist brought a groundbreaking credential to his job as a television weather forecaster in New York, and who also had a long career presenting network programs on science and medicine, died on Saturday in Florida. His death was announced by WNBC-TV in New York, where Dr. Field began his broadcast career in 1958. Dr. Field, a presence on New York and network television for more than 40 years, was not the city’s first popular TV forecaster. Ms. Reed signed off her nightly reports on WCBS-TV with a cheery “Have a happy.” Both enjoyed long runs on television. “Weather forecasting used to be in a class with reporting real estate transactions for the newspaper,” Dr. Field told The New Yorker for a 1966 profile.

Persons: Frank Field, Field, Tex Antoine, Carol Reed, Mr, Antoine, Wethbee, Reed Organizations: WNBC, NBC, ABC, WCBS, New Yorker Locations: New York, Florida

☆ Roger Craig, Teacher of an Era-Defining Pitch, Is Dead at 93
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

After pitching in the Dodgers’ minor league system and serving in the Army, Craig made his debut with Brooklyn in July 1955. He pitched for the Dodgers again in the 1956 World Series, taking the loss in Game 3 of the seven-game series win for the Yankees. in shutouts, with four, as the Dodgers won their first pennant in Los Angeles. Craig pitched mostly in relief before he was chosen by the Mets as their No. The Mets traded Craig to the Cardinals before the 1964 season, and he won Game 4 of the World Series in relief as St. Louis beat the Yankees in seven games.

Persons: Mike Scioscia, Roger Lee Craig, John, Mamie Craig, Craig, Connie Mack, Hobie Landrith, Elio Chacon, Louis Organizations: Dodgers, Angels, Associated Press, North Carolina State University, Dodgers ’, Army, Brooklyn, Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox, Mets, Houston, Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Phillies Locations: Durham, N.C, North, Los Angeles

☆ Jim Brown, Football Great and Civil Rights Champion, Dies at 87
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His family announced his death on Friday on Instagram. Playing for the Browns from 1957 to 1965 after earning all-American honors at Syracuse University in football and lacrosse, Brown helped take Cleveland to the 1964 National Football League championship. In any game, he dragged defenders when he wasn’t running over them or flattening them with a stiff arm. He eluded them with his footwork when he wasn’t sweeping around ends and outrunning them. He never missed a game, piercing defensive lines in 118 consecutive regular-season games, though he played one year with a broken toe and another with a sprained wrist.

☆ Don Denkinger, Umpire Remembered for Botched Call, Dies at 86
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Don Denkinger was regarded as one of the finest major-league umpires of his time. Working in the American League from 1969 to 1998, he was assigned to four World Series and three All-Star Games. But when Denkinger died Friday in Waterloo, Iowa, at 86, he was remembered mostly for his famously botched call on baseball’s greatest stage. In 1985, Denkinger was umpiring at first base in Game 6 of the World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals. The Royals’ Jorge Orta, who led off, hit a bounder to the Cardinals’ first baseman, Jack Clark.

☆ Joe Kapp, Quarterback Who Led Vikings to Super Bowl IV, Dies at 85
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Joe Kapp, the rugged quarterback who spent eight seasons in the Canadian Football League before making it to the N.F.L. with the 1967 Minnesota Vikings, then took them to Super Bowl IV in January 1970, died on Monday in San Jose, Calif. His son, J.J. Kapp, said the death, at an assisted living facility, was caused by complications of dementia. In the N.F.L., he gained a reputation for resilience in the face of injury. “I’ve played with cracked ribs and a punctured lung and a torn knee and separated shoulder and a half-dozen other injuries,” he wrote in a first-person article.

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