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Richie Ashburn, inducted in 2004, longtime player and color commentator for the Philadelphia Phillies Wilt Chamberlain, an inaugural class inductee, born and raised in Philadelphia and played for the Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers Jimmie Foxx, inducted in 2004, played for the Philadelphia Athletics Connie Mack, longtime Manager and Owner of the Philadelphia Athletics was inducted in 2004 ...
Bill Plummer, 76, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and coach (Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies), World Series champion (1975, 1976), complications from a heart attack. [ 371 ] Gani Qaliev , 85, Kazakh economist and politician, member of the Mäjilis (1999–2004).
Initially a history teacher and football coach, Eccleston eventually added the coaching duties of baseball and ice hockey to his responsibilities, winning state championships in all three sports. [3] For 23 years Eccleston declined all offers to coach at the collegiate level but finally accepted an offer from Providence in 1956 to alleviate ...
Tom Fitzgerald, 53, American soccer coach (University of Tampa), motorcycle accident. [23] Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek operatic soprano, heart failure. [24] Svend Wad, 76, Danish boxer and Olympic medalist. [25] Ron Williamson, 51, American minor league baseball player and murder convict, liver cirrhosis.
Ozzie Virgil Sr., the first Dominican-born baseball player in the major leagues, has died, MLB announced Sunday. He was 92. Virgil became the first nonwhite Detroit Tigers player when he joined ...
Terrence Michael Pegula (born March 27, 1951) is an American billionaire businessman and petroleum engineer. He is the owner of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL) and, with a consortium of private equity firms and athletes, the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL).
Uecker, a baseball icon, television and movie funnyman and Hall of Fame Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer, died Thursday at the age of 90, following a "private battle with small cell lung cancer ...
Cecil Porter Vaughan (May 11, 1919 – July 30, 2008) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Athletics. [1] He was in the military during World War II from 1942 to 1945.