William David Guthrie, who played in the St. Louis Cardinals organization, died
on July 30, 2010 in Lawrenceville, GA.

http://tinyurl.com/2f7yygw

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=guthri002wil

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

John Edward Novosel, who played eight seasons in the minors sandwiched around
service in World War II, died on July 31, 2010, in Kansas City, MO.

http://tinyurl.com/2b9mc7b

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=novose001joh

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Joel Thomas Pegg, who played in the Milwaukee Braves organization, died on
August 1, 2010.

http://tinyurl.com/297szvb

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

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Louis William "Lou" Dolci (nee Dolcimascola), who played four seasons in the
minors sandwiched around service in the Korean War, died on August 5, 2010 in
Summit, NJ.

http://tinyurl.com/24unnwo

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=dolcim001lou

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Jack:

I did not see him overlapping Earl Weaver, but perhaps this was in spring
training.

Steve


On Sun, August 8, 2010 7:09 am, morrisjvm wrote:
> Louis William "Lou" Dolci (nee Dolcimascola), who played four seasons in
> the minors sandwiched around service in the Korean War, died on August 5,
> 2010 in Summit, NJ.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/24unnwo
>
> http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=dolcim001lou
>
> Jack Morris
> East Coventry, PA
>
>

Louis A. Minotti, who played in the Philadelphia Phillies organization, died on
August 1, 2010 in Elmira, NY.

http://tinyurl.com/2esd683

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=minott001lou

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Michael J. "Mike" Auer, who played in the Chicago Cubs organization after
service in World War II, died on July 31, 2010.

http://tinyurl.com/22ssw2c

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

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Willard G. "Willie" Anderson, who played in the St. Louis Cardinals
organization, died on August 1, 2010 in Detroit Lakes, MN.

http://tinyurl.com/2cqelo7

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=anders002wil

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Alex DeRosa, who played two seasons in the minors in the early 1950s,  died on
August 7, 2010 in Monongahela, PA.

http://tinyurl.com/2dujwfb

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=derosa001ale

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

John R. Mulcahy, who played minor league baseball in the early 1950s, died on
August 7, 2010 in Lima, OH.

http://tinyurl.com/2fy6x2w

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=mulcah003joh

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Keith Alan Drumright, who played for the 1978 Houston Astros and 1981 Oakland
A's, died on August 7, 2010, in Springfield, MO.

http://tinyurl.com/2eellf3

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/drumrke01.shtml

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Robert W. "Bull" Brydon, who played in the Brooklyn Dodgers organization before
having his career interupted by World War II, died on July 30, 2010 in Califon,
NJ.

http://tinyurl.com/2bpzlqj

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=brydon001rob

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Gene Hermanski, longtime Brooklyn Dodger
passes away at 90

http://snipurl.com/10h40i

FROM:  The New York Baseball History Examiner ~
By Nicholas Diunte

Gene Hermanski, the former Brooklyn Dodger
outfielder who suggested that they all wear
number 42 to confuse the alleged snipers
threatening Jackie Robinson died Monday
afternoon in Florida. He was 90.

Hermanski was born May 11, 1920 in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, but spent his formative years in
Newark, New Jersey where he would become
a standout at East Side High School. After
graduating, he signed in 1939 with the Philadelphia
Athletics and later moved on to the Brooklyn
Dodger organization in 1941 after his Pocomoke
City team disbanded.

He served in the Navy and the Coast Guard during
World War II, spending most of his time stationed
at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. During his
military service, he was granted a two month leave
in 1943 which allowed him to make his major league
debut with the Dodgers. He hit .300 in 60 at-bats
before returning to the Navy.

While stationed at Floyd Bennett Field, Hermanski
would play with the legendary semi-pro Brooklyn
Bushwicks. Hermanski explained in this 2009
interview [1] why he had to play under the name
"Gene Walsh". "I had to change it [my name]; it
was the smartest thing I ever did in my life. If my
commanding officer ever found out that I was
playing ball in some ball park, he'd ship me
overseas."

Upon his return to the Dodgers in 1946, Hermanski
made the club as a reserve outfielder. It was there
with the Dodgers that he witnessed baseball's
integration happen before his eyes. Hermanski was
the starting left fielder on April 15, 1947, the day
Jackie Robinson made his major league debut.
Ralph Branca, along with Hermanski, went over
that day to greet Robinson with a handshake while
Robinson was largely ignored by the rest of his
teammates.

He played in two of the Dodgers' World Series
appearances (1947 and 1949), batting .308 in their
loss to the Yankees in the 1949 classic. He played
with Brooklyn until 1951 when he was traded to
the Chicago Cubs for Andy Pafko. He would
spend two more seasons with the Cubs before
becoming part of the exchange between the Cubs
and Pittsburgh Pirates that sent Ralph Kiner to
Chicago. Hermanski would play one more season
in 1954 with the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific
Coast League, reuniting with former Dodger
manager Charlie Dressen before retiring from
baseball. He finished with a lifetime batting average
of .272 over nine major league seasons.

After his playing career was over, he worked as
a sales representative for Tose Incorporated. At
the time of his passing, he was the last living
player from the starting lineups of both teams for
Robinson's debut. Ed Stevens is currently the last
surviving player that participated that game.

MLB Stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hermage01.shtml

[1] http://snipurl.com/10h3y7

James Edgar Parker, who played in the Boston Red Sox organization, died on
August 8, 2010.

http://tinyurl.com/2eepqgp

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=parker005jam


Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Former Pirates Pitcher/Broadcaster Nellie King Dies

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10223/1079190-100.stm

FROM:  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ~
By Colin Dunlap

Nelson Joseph "Nellie" King, a former Pirates
pitcher and broadcaster and Duquesne
University sports information director and
broadcaster, died today.

His death was confirmed by Duquesne University
athletic spokesman Dave Saba. He was 82.

In recent years, Mr. King, who was born on
March 15, 1928, battled colon cancer and
pneumonia.

Mr. King pitched for the Pirates from 1954-57,
constructing a 7-5 record as he was used
largely as a relief pitcher, playing alongside
Pittsburgh greats Roberto Clemente, Dick
Groat and Bill Mazeroski -- but that's not
where he made his most indelible mark in
baseball.

It was in the broadcast booth where Mr. King
is remembered most, first working for smaller
stations in Latrobe, Kittanning and Greensburg
from 1960-67, covering mainly high school
sports.

In 1967, his biggest break came, as Mr. King
joined the three-man Pirates broadcast team
alongside veterans Bob Prince and Jim Woods,
and he announced Pirates games on radio and
television until 1975. That position had opened
when Don Hoak, a former Pirates player and
Pittsburgher, moved from the broadcast booth
to the dugout to take a position as a coach.

During his tenure in the booth for the Pirates,
Mr. King was behind the microphone for some
of the Pirates' brightest days, as he described
action for teams that won the National League
Eastern Division championship five times and,
most notably, a 1971 World Series dominated
by his former teammate, Clemente.

Mr. King, who graduated from Milton Hershey
High School in Hershey, Pa., in 1945, also put
together morning sports reports on WWSW
and KDKA and weekend sports on local
television stations WTAE and KDKA.

He served as color commentator for one final
game in the nostalgia-filled 2000 season for the
Pirates, the final year before Three Rivers
Stadium was imploded.

After his experience in the Pirates booth,
Mr. King moved into a sports communications
role at Duquesne University in 1975,
undertaking those duties until his retirement
from that post in 1992. In addition to his
sports information director position at
Duquesne, Mr. King served as publicity
director for the Eastern Eight Conference
(now the Atlantic 10) and coached Duquesne's
men's golf team for almost two decades.

But, even as he was the sports information
director and golf coach, Mr. King still found
a way with that hectic schedule to keep a part
of him involved where he felt most
comfortable -- behind the microphone.
For 24 seasons, he was the color commentator
for Duquesne men's basketball games
alongside play-by-play man Ray Goss.

"My initial impressions, when he first got
the job, was 'OK, here's a professional athlete,
rebounding from his career and he's just
going to be here for awhile and then move
on,'" Goss said today. "That initial impression
could not have been further from the truth.
He worked so hard at his craft, at being both
a public relations man and a radio man. And
for that I admired him, I always admired the
way he dug in and worked hard to learn new
things."

"Just like some of the old time ballplayers,
he was a regular guy," aid Mr. Goss, who
will begin his 42nd year behind the Dukes
microphone this year. "There were no airs
about Nellie. It was never, 'Hello, I'm Nellie
King, a former professional baseball player'
when he introduced himself. There was none
of that. He was just a regular guy; you'd walk
up and talk to him and he was just like every
other guy." Most recently, Mr. King wrote the
2009 book, titled "Happiness is like a Cur Dog:
The Thirty-Year Journey of a Major League
Baseball Pitcher and Broadcaster" in which he
spins numerous yarns that only a man who
made the voyage from a minor leaguer, to
a major-leaguer to a big league broadcaster
can tell.

The book's visibility spiked in popularity when
television personality and noted baseball lover
Keith Olbermann, who hosts Countdown on
MSNBC, made mention of it during a telecast.

Mr. King is survived by his wife, Bernadette,
and three daughters, Laurie, Leslie and Amy.

>At the time of his passing, [Hermanski] was the last living
player from the starting lineups of both teams for [Jackie]
Robinson's debut. Ed Stevens is currently the last
surviving player that participated that game.

--------------------------------------------------
Here's the box score:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BRO/BRO194704150.shtml

Hermanski was the last starter, but I think that Marv Rackley is also
still alive.


Pete Ridges

Burton O. Cork, who pitched for the 1949 McAllen Giants, died on August 11, 2010
in Mason City, IA.

http://tinyurl.com/23ccb8a

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

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Gordon Rueben "Moose" Roach, who played for five seasons in the minors, died on
August 5, 2010 in Toronto, ON.

http://tinyurl.com/27l87qj

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

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100816/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbo_obit_joe_l_brown

Donald P. "Don" Wichmann, who played part of one season for the 1947 Carthage
Cardinals, died on August 15, 2010 in Sauk Rapids, MN.

http://tinyurl.com/2bqb9r4

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=wickma001don

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

James Richard "Jim" Johnson, who played in the Detroit Tigers organization, died
on June 13, 2010 in Santa Rosa, CA. Thanks to Ray Nemec for help in identifying
Johnson.

http://tinyurl.com/23bj4tm

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=johnso023jam

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2010/08/17/2010-08-17_bobby_thomson_d\
ies_after_long_illness.html

Bobby Thomson, who hit the 'shot heard 'round the world' home run for
the Giants, dies at 86

Robert W. Wirt, Sr., who played three years in the minor leagues, died on
February 9, 2010, in Brooksville, FL.

http://tinyurl.com/2vw2bpj

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

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Larry Glenn Novak, who played 12 seasons for three different organizations and
fought in the Korean War, died on August 16, 2010 in Michigan City, IN.

http://tinyurl.com/22oee2c

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

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

David Gene Crocker, who played three seasons in the St. Louis Browns/Baltimore
Orioles organization, died on August 13, 2010 in Ann Arbor, MI.

http://tinyurl.com/23cgx4y

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=crocke001dav

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

Roy W. Sinquefield, who played seven seasons in the minors as a
pitcher/outfielder, died on August 17, 2010 in Kenansville, FL.

http://tinyurl.com/2b2lgjv

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=sinque001roy

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA

W.H. "Dub" Jones

FROM:  The Gainesville Times ~
(Paid obit)

http://snipurl.com/10pxh1

W.H. "Dub" Jones, 85, of Douglas Drive,
Gainesville, passed away Wednesday,
Aug. 18, 2010, at Northeast Georgia Medical
Center following a brief illness.

Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday,
Aug. 21, 2010, at 11 a.m. in the chapel
of Memorial Park Funeral Home with interment
to follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery.
Dr. Jimmy Hope and the Rev. Doyal Conley
will officiate. The family will receive friends
Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, from 6 to 9 p.m.
and Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, from 6 to 9 p.m.
at the funeral home.

Mr. Jones was born in Banks County on July
10, 1925. He graduated from Air Line High
School and Piedmont College then went on
to George Peabody College in Tennessee
where he received an advanced degree in
education. Dub was well known locally as an
accomplished athlete in both Industrial League
Baseball and Basketball.

He was drafted into Minor League baseball
by the Detroit Tigers.

Dub married Louise Hopkins and they had
five children - Duane, Dwight, Denise, Debra
and Dalva. He served in World War II in the
Navy as a radio operator. After leaving the
military Dub entered the field of education
and was a teacher and coach at Riverbend,
East Hall and North Hall High Schools. After
retirement, Dub served on the Hall County
Board of Education. Louise Jones passed in
1991, and Dub married Geraldine Skinner
who was his companion for the remainder
of his life. Dub Jones was a community
servant who never met a stranger and was
loved and respected by all.

Mr. Jones is survived by his wife, Geraldine
Jones of Gainesville; son and daughter-in-law,
Duane and Julie Jones of Gainesville; son,
Dwight Jones of Gainesville; daughter and
son-in-law, Denise and Chester Gibson of
Murrayville; daughter and son-in-law, Debra
and Chip Smith of Gainesville; son and
daughter-in-law, Dalva and Sandra Jones
of Gainesville; daughter and son-in-law, Judy
and Jimmy Hope of Gainesville; son and
daughter-in-law, Jack and Joyce Skinner of
Gainesville; 17 grandchildren; 16
great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild;
brother and sister-in-law, Arnold and Laura
Sue Jones Jr. of Gainesville; and a host
of nieces and nephews who loved him dearly.

Mr. Jones is preceded in death by his wife,
Louise Jones and sister, Geneva Harkins.

Memorial Park Funeral Home, 2030 Memorial
Park Road, Gainesville, GA 30504, is in charge
of arrangements.
---
MiLB Stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=jones-011wil

Ronald A. "Whitey" Laumann, who played in the New York Giants organization, died
on August 18, 2010 in York, PA.

http://tinyurl.com/267up3t

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=lauman001ron

Jack Morris
East Coventry, PA