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Ron Santo Death

December 3, 2010 by · Comments Off on Ron Santo Death 

Ron Santo Death, Last night Ron Santo died. There was no other reason for him to spend much of his life attached to it despite living with type 1 diabetes. Not a consecration implored the Baseball Hall of Fame more than Santo, and he died this morning, without honor. For light, the Baseball Hall of Fame, and veteran member of the committee ignored him should be ashamed enormous.

For the decade of 1960, was the third baseman Santo best in baseball. He won the Gold Gloves, hit home runs (342 in his career), and press for the average (0.277). He led National League third basemen all relevant statistics defensive throughout the 1960s. He made nine All-Star Games, and always played with great passion and excitement. Santo, career stats are borderline SDA for the Hall of Fame in comparison with the other ten third basemen have already registered.

This brings him full extent, is that he has done all his health before flying four or five seasons of production. Had he been healthy and able to continue playing, there is little doubt he would have finished his career with 400 homers and 1,500 + RBI +. That would make him one of the two third basemen in baseball history to reach the plateau. Add to that his defensive excellence, durability (11 straight seasons with over 150 games played), and unbridled enthusiasm, and Santo is obvious.

All the guys wanted were the phone to ring with an invitation to Cooperstown for induction, but the veteran’s committee member has ever done that to happen. He, AOS even difficult to guess why. Perhaps four Hall of Fame of a team that never made the series seems excessive for them. Perhaps his best uniform was overshadowed by that of two Billy Williams and Ernie Banks. Maybe they have something against people with diabetes. Who knows?

The Baseball Writers Association of America (where the hell else is an association of baseball writers come from?) Who voted for the room during the 15 years of qualifying players has never been smarter. The threshold is a player to receive votes on 75% of the ballots. Santo received for only 40% in 1998, his final year on the ballot.

Ron Santo will go someday, but he won, AOT be there to experience the thrill of joining this fraternity. Nobody wanted more. And as the best third baseman in the game for a decade, he deserved this recognition. As a man has battled ill health to play first, then describe games for the Cubs, who have worked tirelessly to raise money and recognition for diabetes, it deserved more than this small cabal of men the veteran’s committee member was denied.

Wgn Radio , Ron Santo Passed Away at Age of 70

December 3, 2010 by · Comments Off on Wgn Radio , Ron Santo Passed Away at Age of 70 

Wgn Radio, Ron Santo, former third baseman of the Chicago Cubs became a broadcaster for the team of Major League Baseball, died yesterday at age 70.

Santo death was confirmed at the site of WGN, where he worked as a radio analyst on Cubs games. Santo died in Arizona from complications of bladder cancer, he said.

“He loved the Cubs,” Pat Hughes, Santo broadcast partner, told the Chicago Tribune. “The Cubs have lost their biggest fan.”

Santo had a lifelong battle with diabetes, which included the amputation of both legs, but continued to work as radio analyst. WGN said he had been scheduled to return to the broadcast booth in 2011.

“It felt therapeutic attend games,” said Hughes. “He delighted in the right stand at the end.”

Santo played for the Cubs from 1960 to 1973 before joining the White Sox for one final season. At nine-time All-Star, he hit 0,277 during his 15-year career with 342 homers and 1,331 RBIs, and won five gold gloves Price on defense.

Santo is one of the leaders of the 1969 Cubs team that has undergone one of the biggest collapses in MLB history. Chicago led the National League East Division nine games in August before losing 26 of its final 43 games to finish eight games behind the Mets, who would win the World Series.

Radio Rookie

In 1990, Santo joined WGN radio flagship station of the Cubs, as an analyst. He missed several road trips last season.

Listening to Santo on Cubs game was like listening to the broadcast with your grandfather because Santo instinctive reaction, not an analysis of a game, “said Brad Zibung, founder and editor of The Heckler, a satirical publication and Web site primarily focused on sports teams in Chicago.

“I’ve always loved the emotion that came with his broadcasts,” Zibung, 34, said in a telephone interview.

Tom Ricketts, president of the Cubs, said he and his siblings learned from his work Santo radio, long before they bought the team.

“He was known for his passion, his loyalty, personal courage and his great sense of humor,” Ricketts said in a statement on the WGN site. “It was our great honor to know him personally in our first year as owners. Ronnie will forever remain the heart and soul of Cubs fans.”

Santo was up for appointment to the Baseball Hall of Fame 19 times without being selected. It is closest in 2007 when he fell five votes shy of the election of the hall’s Veterans Committee.

Chicago Cubs

December 3, 2010 by · Comments Off on Chicago Cubs 

Chicago Cubs, The proposal by the Chicago Cubs to use taxpayer money to finance over 200 million and improvements at Wrigley Field so far has missed the strike zone, but ownership of the team not giving up.

When Tom Ricketts Cubs president unveiled the plan last month, he had hoped to prompt legislative approval of its proposal for funding the requested State to issue bonds on behalf of the team. He said a bill could be presented at the session of the General Assembly of veto held last week in Springfield.

But the team concept is never converted into a bill for legislators to consider because of objections to how the bonds would be repaid. The General Assembly veto session ended on Thursday morning.

The absence of legislation on Wrigley did not come as a surprise to many because the Cubs plan received little support from key elected officials. Governor Pat Quinn and Mayor Richard Daley had both asked if the renovation of a private stadium was a good use of public funds when the state and city are facing budget problems.

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