Alex Rodriguez take note.....
RIP
R.I.P. Mr. Cub
Very sad to hear this.. RIP Mr. Cub...
God bless and keep him.
Ernie Banks is an American legend.
Sad to hear.
RIP Mr. Banks. Thanks for the fond memories.
The man. Baseball, live up to that. RIP
Ernie was a class act through and through. He never had a chip on his shoulder even though he suffered though the same era of racism as Hank Aaron who wore it proudly.
The only happy thought I can think about now is the reunion he will enjoy with teammate Ron Santo. The 1969 and 1970 Cubs were better than a lot of teams which actually won World Series.
RIP.
Looked up to this guy, always wanted to go one better and play three.
RIP Ernie Banks
RIP
A tribute to the game. Great player and apparently a great person as well.
A great player, a quality person.
RIP, and thanks. From all of us who love baseball.
RIP Mr. Banks, you were a class act.
I loved earnie banks. he had a very big number one on the card used to play this game when i was a kid.
All Star Baseball is one of the two most popular baseball board games of the last sixty years,[citation needed] and has been honored as one of the fifty most influential American board games of all time.[by whom?] It was manufactured by Cadaco-Ellis and designed by baseball player Ethan Allen.
The game first appeared in 1941 and a special version is still sold today. It was the best-selling baseball board game of all time,[citation needed] and is the only such game to have been distributed through mass market channels and toy stores for any extended period of time.[citation needed] The annual versions of the game were discontinued in the mid-1990s due to the loss of market share to video games and greatly increased player licensing costs, but a commemorative version was issued in 2003.
Unlike more simulation-focused competitors, most notably Strat-o-Matic Baseball, ASB is aimed at a younger audience and is simpler to play. The initial target audience was boys 9–12 years old. It simulates batters’ performance well, but makes no attempt to model the performance of individual pitchers.
Nevertheless, many fans passionately bought each year’s cards and collected statistics from neighborhood leagues, some amassing as many as 2,500 games worth of paper box scores and comparing those totals with the actual players’ statistics.
Ernie Banks was my boyhood hero. He came to the Cubs in 1953, the year I was born. I lived a couple miles from Wrigley Field and saw him play hundreds of times.
Very sad news.
He was one of the greatest ever, and nobody ever had as much fun playing the game.
Also, one of the last links to the Negro Leagues, having played for the Kansas City Monarchs.