Obituary: Baseball great Tom Seaver 75, has died. He had been battling the horrible Lewy Body dementia for several years. Seaver also had been diagnosed with COVID-19.
George Thomas Seaver was born in Fresno, California, on Nov. 17, 1944, a son of Charles Seaver, a top amateur golfer who won both his matches for the U.S. over Britain at the 1932 Walker Cup.
Tom Seaver was a star at the University of Southern California and was drafted by Atlanta in 1966. He signed with the Braves for $51,500 only for commissioner William Eckert to void the deal. The Trojans already had played exhibition games that year, and baseball rules at the time prohibited a club from signing a college player whose season had started. Any team willing to match the Braves' signing bonus could enter a lottery, and Eckert picked the Mets out of a hat that also included Cleveland and Philadelphia.
Among baseball's worst teams from their expansion season in 1962, the Mets lost more than 100 games in five of their first six seasons and had never won more than 73 in any of their first seven years. With cherished Brooklyn Dodgers star Gil Hodges as their manager, a young corps of pitchers led by Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Gary Gentry and a still-wild Nolan Ryan, and an offense that included Cleon Jones and Tommie Agee, the Mets overtook the Chicago Cubs to win the NL East with a 100-62 record in 1969.
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Obituary: I will note the death of a few days ago of actor Chadwick Boseman, noted for his role in the Black Panther franchise as well as biopics of Jackie Robinson and James Brown. His death at only 43 shocked the world because he had kept his battle with colon cancer a secret.
I lost a brother to the disease back in 1989. He died just four months after the diagnosis. He was just 56 and had never been sick a day in his life. Boseman apparently was making all these hit films while suffering from this dreaded cancer.
Born in South Carolina, Boseman graduated from Howard University and had small roles in television before his first star turn in 2013. His striking portrayal of the stoic baseball star Robinson opposite Harrison Ford in 2013′s “42” drew attention in Hollywood and made him a star.
A year later, he wowed audiences as Brown in the biopic “Get On Up.”
Boseman died on a day that Major League Baseball was celebrating Jackie Robinson day. “His transcendent performance in ‘42’ will stand the test of time and serve as a powerful vehicle to tell Jackie’s story to audiences for generations to come,” the league wrote in a tweet.
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Tweet of the Day:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A reminder: It’s illegal to vote twice. But not to impeach twice.</p>— Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1301550489394388992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Whether this article does any damage at all to Donald Trump remains to be seen. His contemptuous attitude toward the military is frankly old news stemming from his trashing the late senator John McCain. However, his remarks about disabled vets in parades really goes beyond the pale as well as dead soldiers who fought in World Wars I and II:
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.
I will believe it when I see it that it changes the minds of his supporters.
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Sounds like former WCSD superintendent Traci Davis didn't ask much in her lawsuit against the district for wrongful termination. If the settlement is approved by the Board of Trustees, it will be a mere $70,000. It sounds like she sued only for her severance pay.
It's a far cry from Pedro Martinez's settlement.
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