(09-30-2024 06:26 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  MLB’s all time hit king, Pete Rose, gone at 83

(09-30-2024 06:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-30-2024 06:26 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  MLB’s all time hit king, Pete Rose, gone at 83

Damn you beat me to it. The man should be in the Hall Of Fame. RIP Charlie Hustle.

(09-30-2024 06:49 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-30-2024 06:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-30-2024 06:26 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  MLB’s all time hit king, Pete Rose, gone at 83

Damn you beat me to it. The man should be in the Hall Of Fame. RIP Charlie Hustle.

If they can restore the Heisman to Bush, they can certainly consider Pete for the HOF. Two different situations I know but what he did then isn't considered nearly as bad today. His biggest sin was just rubbing some of the owners the wrong way. I just wish people like Rose and Jim Thorpe could have lived to see their reputations restored. Toss in Joe Jackson.

(09-30-2024 06:58 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-30-2024 06:49 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-30-2024 06:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-30-2024 06:26 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  MLB’s all time hit king, Pete Rose, gone at 83

Damn you beat me to it. The man should be in the Hall Of Fame. RIP Charlie Hustle.

If they can restore the Heisman to Bush, they can certainly consider Pete for the HOF. Two different situations I know but what he did then isn't considered nearly as bad today. His biggest sin was just rubbing some of the owners the wrong way. I just wish people like Rose and Jim Thorpe could have lived to see their reputations restored. Toss in Joe Jackson.

I was a big Card fan back in the day. But I will tell you the Big Red Machine was for real. They had some great players. I do have a baseball signed by Pete Rose. Getting old sucks but I will wait my turn, God willing.

(09-30-2024 06:49 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-30-2024 06:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-30-2024 06:26 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  MLB’s all time hit king, Pete Rose, gone at 83

Damn you beat me to it. The man should be in the Hall Of Fame. RIP Charlie Hustle.

If they can restore the Heisman to Bush, they can certainly consider Pete for the HOF. Two different situations I know but what he did then isn't considered nearly as bad today. His biggest sin was just rubbing some of the owners the wrong way. I just wish people like Rose and Jim Thorpe could have lived to see their reputations restored. Toss in Joe Jackson.

(10-01-2024 06:02 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Actor John Amos, Dead at 84

He played Gordy the Weatherman on Mary Taylor Moore Show.
Played the father on Good Times.
Was in the tv mini series Roots.
He also starred in Beast Master opposite of Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts and Rip Torn.

(09-29-2024 05:56 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Kris Kristofferson dies at 88

Kris Kristofferson, Country Music Legend and ‘A Star Is Born’ Leading Man, Dies at 88

Quote:Ecuador's last mountain ice harvester, Baltazar Ushca, who spent over half a century climbing the country's highest summit to extract ice at the top, died Friday at the age of 80, authorities in his hometown of Guano said.

Ushca was a legend in the Andean country and beyond, as the last practitioner of the age-old profession of ice harvester on Mount Chimborazo, a dormant volcano 6,310 metres high.

"We deeply regret to announce the death of our dear Mashi, Taita Baltazar Ushca, the last iceman of the majestic Chimborazo, a national and international icon," the municipality of Guano in central Ecuador wrote on social media. In the Quechua language "Taita" means companion and father.

Ushca died after suffering a bad fall while herding cattle at home on Thursday.

The municipality said a bull "overpowered him and threw him to the ground, causing him serious injury."

Ushca inherited his trade from his father when he was 15 years old and never looked back.

Twice a week he climbed to the 5,200-meter mark on Chimborazo to extract huge blocks of ice weighing up to 20 kilograms with a pick and shovel.

He then wrapped the ice in hay and sold it on a market in the city of Riobamba.

The arrival of refrigerators sounded the death knell for icemen, but Ushca kept plying his trade, inspiring several documentaries.

At 73 years old, he returned to the classroom to complete his primary education and in 2017 received an honorary doctorate.

At the end of his life, he worked as a tourism promoter at Guano museum.

"His work is and will remain a reference for the knowledge of our people," the National Institute of Cultural Heritage (INPC) wrote on the social network X.