Jennings B. "J.B." Gibbs, who played two seasons in the Longhorn League, died on
April 5, 2009.

http://tinyurl.com/cfj2rs

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=gibbs-001jen

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Curtis Arnold Reade III, who played in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization,
died on April 28, 2009 at Santa Maria, CA.

http://tinyurl.com/d4n2a3

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=reade-001cur

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Charles Franklin Goodale Jr., who played one season in the 1940 Interstate
League, died in Naples, FL on April 25, 2009.

http://tinyurl.com/ceahfj

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=goodal001cha

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Danny Gans, a minor league player better known as a Las Vegas performer, died in
Henderson, NV, on May 1, 2009.  Gans played third base for Victoria (Northwest
League) in 1978, and also had a small role as third baseman in the movie "Bull
Durham."

http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/19348019/detail.html

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=gans--001dan


-- Ed Washuta

Robert S. Box, Sr., who played one season for the Olean Oilers in the PONY
League in 1943, died on May 1, 2009 at Bath, NY.

http://tinyurl.com/dx4jfs

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=box---001rob

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Lawrence Goldberg, who recorded Russ Hodges' famous "The Giants have won the
pennant!" call and thus saved it for generations to hear, died on April 25,
2009.

http://tinyurl.com/dzj9e6

http://tinyurl.com/c5uym9 (New York Times story on how and why he saved it)

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

There is a slight difference in the spelling of his last name: DB has it as
"Aube" and the obit as "Aub":

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=aube--001jea

Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - May 6, 2009

Jean Paul Aub, Sr. was received in heaven by his Lord and Savior and wife,
Louise, on May 4, 2009. Born October 19, 1929 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Paul
grew up playing baseball and hockey in Montreal and was drafted in both sports.
Even though he could not speak English at the time, he chose baseball and at the
age of eighteen he left his family to head south and play pro ball in El Dorado,
Arkansas. Paul played pro ball from 1948 to 1953. Paul retired from Merck in
1992 after a 35 year career as a pharmaceutical salesman and consultant. Paul
continued his love for baseball as a coach and manager for over thirty years in
the Dallas Amateur Baseball Association. He took pride in the fact that his
"Dallas A's" won three national championships in the AABC Stan Musial Division.

He played in 1939 with Fayetteville as part of the Browns' system:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=bennet002rob

Springfield News-Leader (MO) - May 5, 2009

Robert Cloud "Bob" Bennett, 89, Springfield, passed away Saturday, May 2, 2009
in Cox South Hospital. He was born October 29, 1919 in Springfield, the son of
Herschel E. and Gladys G. Cloud Bennett. He attended Rountree and Jarrett
schools and graduated from Springfield Sr. High School in 1937. After being
named an All State basketball player his Senior year in high school, he attended
Missouri University on a basketball scholarship. Following his freshman year at
MU he signed a professional baseball contract with the St. Louis Browns
organization and played one season for the Fayetteville Angels. He then enrolled
at Drury College to complete his education. Bob was a WWII veteran, serving in
the South Pacific where he attained the rank of Lieutenant. He worked for
Prudential Insurance Company in St. Louis from 1952 to 1965 and returned to
Springfield in 1965 as a Vice President at Union National Bank in charge of the
Mortgage Loan Department. He retired from the bank in 1986...Burial will precede
the service at 1 PM in Maple Park Cemetery.

Jean Paul Aube', Sr., who played six seasons in the minors in the early 1950s,
died on May 4, 2009.

http://tinyurl.com/csfx26

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=aube--001jea

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

James A. McClary, who played in four minor leagues in two seasons, died on May
3, 2009 in Fort Pierce, FL.

http://tinyurl.com/cjgy2d

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=mcclar001jam

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Former Phillies manager Danny Ozark dies

http://snurl.com/hk2gk

FROM:  The Philadelphia Inquirer ~
By Frank Fitzpatrick, Staff Writer

Danny Ozark, the Phillies manager whose hound-dog
face and penchant for malaprops sometimes obscured
the success his teams enjoyed during the 1970s, died
today at 85 in Vero Beach, Fla.

Mr. Ozark, who managed the two winningest teams in
Phillies' history in 1976 and 1977 during his 6-plus years
at the helm, died at home this morning, according to an
announcement by the club.

MiLB Stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=ozark-001dan

Red Sox great Dom DiMaggio, Joe's brother, dies

By MARK PRATT – 26 minutes ago

BOSTON (AP) — Dominic DiMaggio, the bespectacled Boston Red Sox center
fielder whose career was overshadowed by his older brother Joe's Hall of
Fame career with the New York Yankees, has died at his Massachusetts
home. He was 92.

DiMaggio died early Friday morning surrounded by his family, according
to his wife, Emily. She did not give a cause of death but said that
DiMaggio had been ill lately.

"He was the most wonderful, warm, loving man," his wife of 61 years
said. "He adored his children, and we all adored him."

DiMaggio was a seven-time All Star who still holds the record for the
longest consecutive game hitting streak in Boston Red Sox history.

Known as the "Little Professor" because of his eyeglasses and 5-foot-9,
168-pound frame, DiMaggio hit safely in 34 consecutive games in 1949.
The streak was broken on Aug. 9 when his big brother caught a sinking
liner in the eighth inning of a 6-3 Red Sox win over the Yankees.

The younger DiMaggio also had a 27-game hitting streak in 1951, which
still ranks as the fifth longest in Red Sox history. Joe set the major
league record with a 56-game hitting streak with the Yankees in 1941.

The oldest of the three center-field-playing DiMaggio brothers was
Vince, who had a 10-year major league career with five National League
teams. Joe died in March 1999, while Vince died in October 1986.

Dom DiMaggio spent his entire career with the Red Sox, 10 full seasons
plus three games in 1953, and was teammates and close friends with Ted
Williams, Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky.

While Dom did not have the offensive numbers of Joe, he was generally
regarded as a better defensive player with a stronger arm, although
their career fielding percentages are identical.

He was a career .298 hitter with 87 home runs, while Joe was a .325
career hitter with 361 homers. Dom's baseball career was interrupted for
three years (1943-45) by World War II when he served in the Navy, a
military obligation that may have cost him induction into the Hall of
Fame, Doerr once said.

DiMaggio and Pesky "were really penalized for that, and I think it was
kind of a shame in a way because when you look, they have the numbers,"
Doerr said in August 2007 during an appearance at Fenway Park.

Dom played a pivotal role in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series against the
St. Louis Cardinals, a heartbreaker for Boston fans. He batted in two
runs in the eighth inning to tie the game at 3, but he injured his leg
while running the bases and was replaced in center field by Leon
Culberson for the ninth.

It was Culberson who fielded Harry Walker's double and threw it to Pesky
during Enos Slaughter's famous "Mad Dash" from first to home that won
the game for the Cardinals.

Many argued that if DiMaggio had still been in center he would have
handled the play better and prevented Slaughter from scoring.

"Watching the play had been pure agony for Dominic DiMaggio...," David
Halberstam wrote in his 2003 book, "The Teammates." "His own injury, his
own pulled hamstring, Dominic now decided, had been the decisive play of
the game."

After the Red Sox finally won the World Series in 2004, their first
since 1918, DiMaggio, Pesky and Doerr were on hand on opening day 2005
to raise the championship banner at Fenway Park.

On June 30, 1950, Dom and Joe DiMaggio homered in the same game, the
first time brothers had hit homers in the same game in the majors in 15
years. They played in the outfield together in three All-Star games.

After his playing career, he started a successful company that
manufactured upholstery and carpeting for automobiles, which he ran
until his retirement in 1983. He remained active in many charitable and
civic causes, supporting medical and education institutions, even
serving on the board of trustees at St. Anselm's College in New
Hampshire. He also helped found the AFL franchise that eventually became
the New England Patriots.

"Dominic DiMaggio was one of the most successful players of his
generation in his post-baseball life," Halberstam wrote in his book. "He
had become over the years a man of means, graceful, elegant, and wise."

DiMaggio grew up in San Francisco, one of nine children born to Sicilian
immigrants. His mother was a teacher and his father was a fisherman. He
is survived by his wife and three children, Dominic Paul, Peter and Emily.

Wake and funeral arrangements are pending, but will be held at St.
Paul's Church in Wellesley.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Source:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ixes5f9v_nw12-BbxuNWMvOl3rEAD9\
821NA82

He played in the Mets' system in both the Florida State and Carolina Leagues
from 1969-71 and 1973:

Daily Times, The (Salisbury, MD) - May 2, 2009

OCEAN CITY -- Frederick A. "Rick" Senger III, 60, of Ocean City, and formerly of
Baltimore, died Thursday, April 30, 2009, at Atlantic General Hospital in
Berlin.

Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Frederick A. Jr. and Doris Myers
Senger.

Rick was a 1966 graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. From 1967 to 1973,
he was a catcher for the New York Mets AAA farm team. After moving to Ocean City
in the 1970s, he owned and operated Coastal Soda Systems and retired in 2000. He
worked for the Transportation Department as a bus driver for the town of Ocean
City.

He played one season in 1942 with the Butler Yankees of the Pennsylvania State
Association league:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=moccio001nic

Journal News, The (Westchester County, NY) - December 15, 2008

Nicholas P. Moccio, Sr. of Mt. Vernon passed away peacefully on December 13,
2008. Nicholas was born August 16, 1923 in Mt. Vernon to Pasquale and Angelina
Moccio. He graduated AB Davis High School in 1941; played baseball for the Mt.
Vernon Paramount's and was on the Yankee Farm Team. He attended Columbia
University before being drafted into the United States Army. Nicholas served in
the Fourth General Hospital of the US Army in New Guinea from 1941 to 1944. On
October 27, 1946 he married Marie Boggi at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Church...Interment to follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.

He played in three different leagues during 1942, then played a couple of years
after WWII:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=tracy-001dwa

Winston-Salem Journal (NC) - September 30, 2008

LEWISVILLE - Dwain Gilbert Tracy, 86, formerly of Charisma Lane, Lewisville,
died Saturday, September 27, 2008, at Forsyth Medical Center. Mr. Tracy was born
November 22, 1921, in Casey, Iowa, son of the late James Garfield Tracy and the
late Eva Marie Knox Tracy. He was a US Army veteran serving during WW II. Mr.
Tracy came to Winston-Salem in 1947 to play professional baseball for the St.
Louis Cardinals AAA farm team as a left handed pitcher. While here that summer,
he met the love of his life Frances Hawkins at a local bus stop. After a summer
romance and corresponding by mail, she rode the train to Iowa where they were
married on February 9, 1948.

The SSDI lists his birth date as 12/6/16 and notes his middle initial as "R":

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=mudron001sha

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL) - April 11, 2008

Francis "Shadow" Mudron went to be with Veronica, his Hon, who died on April 9,
2005.

Shadow's passion was baseball. While growing up on Meeker Ave. he played on
Speedboys, St. Cyril A. C., Reefers Trucking and the Meeker Ave. Wildcats teams.
Shadow also played for a year with the St. Louis Cardinal's farm team. He was an
Honorary Lifetime Member of the Amateur Baseball Federation, and past president
of the Will County Old Timers Baseball Association. After serving in the Navy
during WWII, Shadow returned to Joliet where he married Veronica McGuire,
started a family and continued to play baseball for Globe Oil. After playing for
many years he became an umpire for numerous baseball leagues in the Will County
area. When Shadow retired from Union Oil he became a starter at the Inwood Golf
Course where he worked until 2003...Interment will be at St. Mary's Cemetery,
Minooka.

John J. Tauckus, who played one season in the minors in 1937, died on May 4,
2009 at Galloway, NJ.

http://tinyurl.com/po9fov

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=taucku002joh

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

John J. Tauckus, who played one season in the minors in 1937, died on May 4,
2009 at Galloway, NJ.

http://tinyurl.com/po9fov

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=taucku002joh

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Joseph A. Banicki, who played in the Chicago Cubs organization, died on May 7,
2009.

http://tinyurl.com/puzb57

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=banick001jos

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Al Giordano, who played in the Brooklyn Dodgers organization, died on May 8,
2009 in Nashville, TN. He was also a Korean War veteran and an All-American
football player.

http://tinyurl.com/o52roe

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=giorda001alp

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

He played in the 1950 North Atlantic League for Stroudsburg:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=dashie001elm

Daily Times, The (Salisbury, MD) - April 30, 2009

FRUITLAND -- Elmer Matthew "Buddy" Dashiell, 82, of Fruitland, died Tuesday,
April 28, 2009, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

Born in Salisbury, he was a son of the late Elmer W. and Carga Stanford
Dashiell. His late wife, Agnes M. Dashiell, died in 1999.

He owned and operated the former Dashiell and Son Well Drilling of Fruitland for
30 years, and also owned and operated a grocery store, pool hall and barbershop.

He was a semi-pro baseball player with the former Philadelphia Athletics, a farm
team of the L.A. Dodgers and the former Clippers baseball team of Fruitland. He
was inducted in the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame.

Interment will be in Mount Calvary UM Church Cemetery in Fruitland.

Springfield Baseball Legend Schaive Dies

http://snurl.com/hu7ie

FROM:  The Springfield Journal-Register ~
By Jim Ruppert

John Schaive, one of the founding fathers of the
Springfield Sports Hall of Fame and a charter member
in 1991, died Monday. He was 75.

Schaive was hospitalized Monday morning and died
about 1 p.m. because of a brain hemorrhage, his wife,
Lesa Schaive, said in an e-mail.

John Schaive, a Lanphier High School graduate, signed
with the Chicago White Sox in 1952, was released and
later caught on with the Washington Senators organization.
He was a minor league terror, and in 1955, he led
a Class D league in four offensive categories. The next
season he was in spring training with the big club.

But he spent two seasons in military service, and when he
got back to baseball, he contended he wasn't the player
he once had been.

"I was a third of the ballplayer when I got to the big leagues,"
Schaive said in a 1991 interview.

Nevertheless, Schaive spent five seasons in the big leagues,
from 1958-60 with the original Senators (who became the
Minnesota Twins in 1961) and from 1962-63 with the
expansion Washington Senators.

His best major league season came in 1962 when he
played 82 games and batted .253 with six home runs
and 29 runs batted in. For his major league career,
Schaive batted .232 in 114 games.

But there was more sitting than playing. That's why at
one point in his career, Schaive went to Senators manager
Mickey Vernon and made an unusual request: He wanted
to go back to the minors, where he could swing the bat.

"I was a utility player in the big leagues," Schaive said in
1991. "I wanted to play. The guys all got a big kick out of
that."

Playing mostly in the days when there were eight teams in
the American League and eight teams in the National League,
Schaive spent 12 seasons in the minor leagues. He was
a career .291 hitter in more than 1,100 minor league games.
He hit .293 on the Class AA level and .282 in five Triple-A
seasons.

Schaive even did some pitching. He was 2-3 in 13
appearances as a 20-year-old for Decatur of the
Mississippi-Ohio League in 1954. Then in 1963 with York
of the Class AA Eastern League, he was 2-1 in eight
appearances.

Playing baseball was Schaive's passion. He grew up
a New York Yankees fan on Springfield's north end, but
his favorite player was Ted Williams. He made his big
league debut in 1958 as a 24-year-old infielder at Boston's
historic Fenway Park.

"I was awed," he said. "My first game was in Fenway Park
against the Red Sox. Ted Williams was my idol. And I still
remember walking into Yankee Stadium for the first time."

Eventually injuries caught up with Schaive, who ended his
career in 1966 as a player-manager in Monterrey, Mexico.
He hurt his knee, dislocated his elbow and suffered other
injuries. It never lessened his love for the game.

"The highlight for me was getting up every day knowing
I was a ballplayer, to have the opportunity to play every
day," Schaive said.

When his playing days were over, Schaive came back to
Springfield, where he helped raise his family. He coached
the Springfield Caps of the Central Illinois Collegiate
League in the 1970s and was the coach when Sangamon
State University fielded a baseball team.

Although he never officially worked as a scout for any
professional organization, Schaive served as an area scout
for his many friends in baseball. He played a role in
getting professional baseball contracts for local players
such as Roger Erickson (Twins), Mike Mathiot (Twins),
Jerry Fry (Expos), Dan Callahan (Padres), Myron Hunter
(Cubs), Loren White (Expos) and Bill Lamkey (Twins).
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MLB Stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schaijo01.shtml

MiLB Stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=schaiv001joh

Former Big-League Player, Scout Bill Kelso Dies

FROM:  The Kansas City Star ~
By Staff

Bill Kelso, who pitched in the major leagues and then
spent 30 years as a baseball scout, died Monday night
in North Kansas City. He was 69.

Jeff Kelso said his father passed up football and basketball
scholarships at the University of Kansas after being signed
by the Dodgers in 1962. He was traded to the Angels and
spent parts of three seasons with LA during 1964-67.
He pitched for Cincinnati in 1968 and ended his playing
career with a 12-5 record.

Kelso then scouted for the Angels, Phillies and Astros.
His notable finds included former Phillies outfielder Bobby
Dernier and current Astros first baseman Lance Berkman
and pitcher Roy Oswalt.

Kelso was a multisport athlete at North Kansas City High
School, playing on the 1957 basketball team that lost to
St. Charles in the Missouri state finals. He was also a member
of amateur baseball's Ban Johnson League Hall of Fame.

Kelso's pizza parlor in Liberty was a popular hangout for
Chiefs players when the football team trained at William
Jewell College.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Vineyard Church,
12300 NW Arrowhead Trafficway in Kansas City, North, with
visitation starting at 11 a.m.
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MLB stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kelsobi01.shtml?redir

MiLB Stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=kelso-001wil