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Longtime baseball fixture Don Zimmer dies at 83
KOB4 ^
| 06-04-2014
Posted on 06/04/2014 6:36:24 PM PDT by Kevin in California
The Tampa Bay Rays say former major league manager, coach and player Don Zimmer has died. He was 83.
Zimmer died Wednesday. He had been in a rehabilitation center in Florida since having heart surgery in mid-April.
Zimmer spent more than 60 years in baseball. He was a senior adviser for the Rays.
TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; donzimmer; rip
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To: Kevin in California
RIP, Don. You were one of a kind.
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:37:06 PM PDT
by
miserare
(2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
To: Kevin in California
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:39:35 PM PDT
by
FlJoePa
("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
To: miserare
I remember the bench brawl over 10 years ago when as the Yankees 3rd base coach he took on Pedro Martinez.
That was baseball Old School!
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:41:55 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: AU72
He was a great player and a great coach.
They just don’t make them like Don anymore.
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:43:16 PM PDT
by
miserare
(2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
To: AU72
I was thinking of the same thing. Martinez just went after him.
To: Kevin in California
Here's to The Gerbil.
He was a "baseball guy" for over sixty years.
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:51:58 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
To: Kevin in California
I hate to hear it. Don was my kind of baseball man. He was tough as nails. If I remember it right, baseball first mandated batting helmets after Don was nearly killed by a pitch.
To: okie01
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:54:13 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi or Atty General Holder, who brought more guns to Mexico?)
To: Kevin in California
He never drew a non-baseball check.
To: nickcarraway
" Martinez just went after him." That's not what I'm seeing here
http://youtu.be/OZAH3Ag4kuw
Nonetheless, RIP Mr. Zimmer
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:01:20 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: okie01
As a long-suffering Cubs fan, I think that I can say on our behalf that the was beloved by Chicago.
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:01:47 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: MuttTheHoople
Very popular. Metal plate hishead.
Used to spray tobacco juice when he went nose to nose with umpires.
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:02:28 PM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Benghazi)!!!)
To: morphing libertarian
Worked some of his games, 1969 Florida State League.
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:03:59 PM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Benghazi)!!!)
To: Kevin in California
The Zim
Off to the HOF in the sky
In the same league as Yogi and Casey Stengel
FU Pedro Martinez
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:08:30 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
To: Kevin in California
R.I.P. Don Zimmer. Condolences to his family and friends.
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:10:46 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: NonValueAdded; okie01
Bill “the spaceman” Lee!
Funniest thing about that story...If he hadn't said anything to the Globe and/or the Herald about Lee referring to him running around like a gerbil, we never would have known.
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:12:00 PM PDT
by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: All
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:12:38 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: Kevin in California
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:13:02 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: muir_redwoods
How would you describe it? He grabbed him and threw him down.
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