Celebrity Death Thread

[The Cat]

One of my all time favorite tiger players, Jim Northrup, is dead at age of 71. Northrup made the greatest catch I have ever seen in person when he leaped higher than the left field screen in 1972 to rob a batter I have long since forgotten of a homerun. The reaction after the catch was telling.

The pitcher Mickey Lolich stood motionless on the mound for several moments staring out to left field in disbelief. He left the mound shaking his head. His post game quote was something to the effect, I don't want to take anything away from Willie Mays, but I honestly don't know how anyone could have made that catch..It was unbelievable.

[Malto Marko]

RIP, Jim.

.......ahhhhhh, those were the days. Northrup, Kaline, Horton, Cash, McAullif, Rodriquez, Stanley, Freehan, Oiler, Lolich and McLean.

[YT]

RIP Mr. Northrup.

[The Cat]

I was hoping to find video on you tube of Northrup's great catch and was unsuccessful. I then looked his his huge homerun in Tiger stadium. It hit the center field scoreboard and was just a few feet low of clearing the board and going out of the park. They estimate later it had travelled 500 feet and change and easily would have been 550 feet had it gone out of the park. Couldn't find that either, but here's a nice clip of a few Tigers including Northrup, facing Bob Gibson in game 7 of the 68 series.

http://youtu.be/DU6jXgINHZA

[Malto Marko]

OMG!

What a flashback!

Funny the video quality was still in the 50's eh?

[Greg H]

Clarence Clemons has died as a result of the stroke suffered last Sunday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/arts/music/clarence-clemons-e-street-band-saxophonist-dies-at-69.html?hp

[CGVT]

RIP Big Man

[*JD*]

I tHink that Conaway bloke was originally going to be the lead male character in "Grease" but then "Saturday Night Fever" was released and Travolta was discovered. He was relegated to Kenickie, who had better lines anyway. He's had to live with that set back all his adult life. I always thought he was a better actor than Travolta.

I'm pretty sure Conway played Danny Zuko on Broadway, prior to the movie.

[YT]

I'm pretty sure Conway played Danny Zuko on Broadway, prior to the movie.

TMD is right.

Travolta did SNF just before he did Grease. Everyone thought Grease would be the bigger hit.

[DanO]

RIP Clarence.

GO LIONS "11" !

[YT]

RIP Clarence

[Chuck Cunningham]

RIP Clarence. I remember seeing Springsteen at the Montreal Forum, watching Clemons play was such a great part of the show!

[Tony G]

'Jackass' star Ryan Dunn dies in fiery Pennsylvania car crash

http://www.freep.com/article/20110620/ENT07/110620029/-Jackass-star-Ryan-Dunn-dies-fiery-Pennsylvania-car-crash?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p

[akavana]

Just read this. Guess he was at a bar just 2 hours before the accident. Sucks though.

[Nick Pappageorgio]

I always thought steve-O or Pontius would be the first to go......but unfortunately I can't consider any of those guys going young as a major surprise.

All the same I feel bad for his friends and family