Harry G. Wilson, who played in the Detroit Tigers and New York Giants
organization, died on March 28, 2010 in Newtown, PA.

http://tinyurl.com/yd2x9rj

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=wilson005har

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bal-former-orioles-pitcher-mike-cuell\
ar-dies-0402,0,6917022.story

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cuellmi01.shtml

Charles McCall "Charlie" Tuttle, who played for nine teams in just four minor
league seasons, died on April 1, 2010.

http://tinyurl.com/yj7ypyy

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=tuttle002cha

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Philip Francis Truax, who played in the Chicago White Sox organization, died on 
April 1, 2010 in Merced, California.

http://tinyurl.com/y9bllvp

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

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Former Yomiuri Giant Takuya Kimura died April 1, 2010 in Hiroshima, Japan. He
had just retired after the 2009 season.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sb20100407x1.html

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=kimura001tak

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Lawrence C. Whiteley, who played in the Washington Senators organization, died
on March 30, 2010 in Claremore, OK.

http://tinyurl.com/yjdykyx

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=whitel001law

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Bob Clear (1927-2010) died April 6, 2010.  He was the bullpen coach for
the California Angels for 12 years, from 1976 through 1987.
And was the uncle of Mark Clear.

Source:
http://www.nctimes.com/sports/baseball/professional/mlb/angels/article_acc893ed-\
f69d-5356-bb28-14f0df686578.html

William "Bill" Harrison, who played in the Chicago White Sox organization, died
on April 2, 2010 in Cedar Rapids, IA.

http://tinyurl.com/y9u2qmt

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=harris018wil

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

LaVern Grover "Vern" Belt, who pitched for three seasons in the minors in the
1950s, died on April 5, 2010 in Scotts Valley, CA.

http://tinyurl.com/y8l7mp3

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

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Highly regarded Hilgards coach dies
Schmidt played role in two state championships

http://www.bnd.com/2010/04/07/1205249/highly-regarded-hilgards-coach.html

FROM:  The Bellville News-Democrat ~
By Norm Sanders

BELLEVILLE

Longtime Belleville Hilgards American Legion
baseball coach John Schmidt, an integral part
of two state championship clubs and other
outstanding teams, died Sunday of an apparent
heart attack.

John Schmidt, who also had battled cancer
since 2000, was 76. He is survived by his wife,
Mary, sons Jeffrey Schmidt and Wayne Schmidt
and daughters Vicki Reynolds (Ocala, Fla.) and
Beth Hausmann (Columbia).

He also is survived by sisters Dorothy Schmidt
and Pauline Bietsch, of Belleville, and Martha
Campbell, of Swansea, 11 grandchildren and
other relatives.

Visitation is set for 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Our
Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Belleville,
followed by a memorial Mass at 11 a.m.

A member of the Belleville Hilgards Hall of Fame,
Schmidt never tired of watching baseball on any
level, visiting with former players and being
involved in all aspects of Post 58's baseball
program.

"I'm going to miss him," said longtime Hilgards
manager Barney Elser, who was nearly inseparable
with Schmidt during their coaching run together
from 1963 to 1981.

During that time, the Hilgards won more than
400 games and had a .710 winning percentage,
including state titles in 1968 and 1975 and
a second-place finish in 1972.

"We had our families together and did a lot
of things together," Elser said. "We were pretty
close; they were in our wedding and we were in
theirs."

Wayne Schmidt said his father always thought it
was a privilege to be able to coach the Hilgards.

"He always said when you've got kids that are 17
and 18 years old and give up their summers to
play ball five nights a week, then you've got kids
who want to play ball," he said. "He said that
made it fun."

Elser said he first met John Schmidt in 1954 when
both returned from military duty in the Korean
War. Schmidt was a basketball and baseball
standout at Cathedral High in Belleville who was
drafted by the Chicago Cubs as a catcher and
shortstop following his senior year.

After spending some time in the minors, Schmidt
was drafted and entered military service in Korea.

"The Cubs asked him to come back after he
served time in the Korean War, but he felt he had
been away from the sport too long to give it his
best shot," Wayne Schmidt said.

Elser and John Schmidt were both married in
1959 and the couples regularly double-dated.

"The opportunity came along to coach Legion ball
and I asked John if he would help out," Elser said.
"He was more than willing to and we were together
for a longtime."

The entire Schmidt and Elser families were also
part of an extended coaching staff, grounds crew
and maintenance patrol when it came to Hilgards
baseball.

"We did it all every summer, that's what my life
was back then," Wayne Schmidt said. "Every
night we went to a game and we each had different
things to do. My sisters were the bat girls, we did
scorekeeping, we chased foul balls and we
dragged the field... a little bit of everything."

In June, John Schmidt and Elser will be honored
with a marble plaque at Whitey Herzog Field
saluting their achievements.

"It's nice, but I wish John could be there," Elser
said.

The only Legion baseball banquet Schmidt missed
was the one when he was inducted into the Hall
of Fame. That took a medical emergency --he was
having a kidney removed because of cancer.

A retired contractor and carpenter for Carpenters
Local 433, Schmidt spent some time as the athletic
director at Queen of Peace Grade School and later
became active in collecting and selling sports
memorabilia.

"He was still going to shows in St. Louis nearly every
month," Wayne Schmidt said of his father, who has
an extensive memorabilia collection.

Memorials may be made to Belleville American
Legion Baseball, P.O. Box 23082, Belleville, IL 62223,
Althoff High School or Queen of Peace Church and
Grade School.
---
MiLB Stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=schmid002joh

Paid obit:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/belleville/obituary.aspx?n=john-e-schmidt&pid=1\
41564586

Here's his obit:

http://tinyurl.com/yehhn69



--- In BaseballNecrology@yahoogroups.com, Rod Nelson <rodericnelson@...> wrote:
>
> I'd just like to add links to minor league playing record and his major
> league coaching record.  He was a three-time 20-game winner in the minors,
> which I think would put him in pretty rare company.
>
> http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=clear-001elw
> http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/C/Pcleab801.htm
>
> Rod Nelson
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:21 PM, David Lambert <dalresearch@...>wrote:
>
> > Bob Clear (1927-2010) died April 6, 2010.  He was the bullpen coach for
> > the California Angels for 12 years, from 1976 through 1987.
> > And was the uncle of Mark Clear.
> >
> > Source:
> >
> >
http://www.nctimes.com/sports/baseball/professional/mlb/angels/article_acc893ed-\
f69d-5356-bb28-14f0df686578.html
> >
> >
> >
>

Michael T. "Mike" Forline, who played in the Boston Braves organization, died on
April 6, 2010 in Cape Coral, FL.

http://tinyurl.com/y3v3kl8

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=forlin001mic

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

I noticed that Mr. Forline played with the Braves organization for a
number of years, starting in 1946.  However, in 1947, after being with
their Pawtucket (Class B) team, he played 3 games for the Giants'
Jacksonville (Class A) team.  He was back with Braves teams in 1947.

Is it, or was it, common for a player to be "lent" to another
organization?  Or is this more likely a trade/transaction with another
subsequent trade/transaction?

Steve Boren

On Fri, April 9, 2010 7:56 am, morrisjvm wrote:
> Michael T. "Mike" Forline, who played in the Boston Braves organization,
> died on April 6, 2010 in Cape Coral, FL.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/y3v3kl8
>
> http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=forlin001mic
>
> Jack Morris
> East Coventry, PA
>
>

Joseph Lazaro, who played 10 games in the Georgia State League in 1949, died on
April 9, 2010 in Worcester, MA.

http://tinyurl.com/yad5po9

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=lazaro001jos

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

William Joseph "Bill" Moisan Jr., who pitched in three games for the 1953
Chicago Cubs, died on April 9, 2010, in Brentwood, NH.

http://tinyurl.com/y8c6956

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moisabi01.shtml

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

John Eugene "Gene" Brocker, who played four seasons in the minors, two in the
Pacific Coast League, died on April 9, 2010 in Yuba City, CA.

http://tinyurl.com/yecqxxq

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=brocke001joh

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Carlos Padilla, who played two seasons in the Sunset League in the 1940s, died
on March 19,2010 in Lemon Grove, CA.

http://tinyurl.com/y3c3b98

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=padill001car

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Charles "Chuck" Rose, who played in the New York Giants organization, died on
April 10, 2010.

http://tinyurl.com/y22zhsb

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=rose--002cha

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=fred-kuhlmann

Fred. L. Kuhlmann, the longtime Anheuser-Busch Cos. executive who helped lead the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1980s, died Saturday at his home in Webster Groves.

He had been fighting a combination of ailments, including congestive heart failure, his family said. He was 93.

Mr. Kuhlmann helped run the Redbird organization during its glory days in the 1980s.

The Cardinals were the World Series champions in '82 and won the National League pennant in '85 and '87. Their record for the decade was
825-734, a National League best-winning percentage of .529.

In 1984, August A. "Gussie" Busch Jr., president, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Cardinals, who had been in charge for 30 years, turned over most day-to-day business operations of the club to Mr. Kuhlmann.

Before that, Busch, Mr. Kuhlmann and Lou Susman, Busch's personal attorney, ran the club, which the brewery still owned. Busch died in 1989, and Susman later left St. Louis to become an investment banker in Chicago.

Mr. Kuhlmann stayed on as the Cardinals' president and chief executive. He retired from those jobs at the end of 1991.

A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 17, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 12345 Manchester Road, Des Peres. Burial will be in
Arcadia, Mich.

Surviving are his wife, Mildred; a daughter, Marilyn Brickler of St. Louis County and a son, F. Mark Kuhlmann of Kirkwood; a brother, Richard
"Dick" Kuhlmann of Mountain View, Calif., seven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Robert "Bob" Brown, who played in the St. Louis Cardinals organization, died on
April 3, 2010 in Marysville, CA.

http://tinyurl.com/y63erl7

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=brown-003bob

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Paul Alexander Sands, who played in the Chicago White Sox organization, died on
April 14, 2010.

http://tinyurl.com/yyanybw

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

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

James "Pops" Mitchell, who played in the Cleveland Indians organization, died on
April 15, 2010.

http://tinyurl.com/y6pa5t3

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=mitche004jam

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA