Incredibly good ball player, and a fine man by all reports. So sad to hear this.
Yup.
Growing up, *everybody* was a Ryno fan, so I always more partial to Sarge, Zonk, and the Penguin...
But - nobody ever had a bad word to say about him. Good ballplayer who also happened to be just the sort of man you hope your kids grow up to be.
RIP, Ryno.
I still make a point of watching the Sandberg Game on Marquee when they replay it... and I still remember - I think I was 15 at the time - watching that NBC Game of the Week at the time. I very much remember Costas awarding the Player of the Game to Willie McGee (he hit for the cycle! Everybody forgets!), but here comes Ryno with the game-tying homer off Sutter in the 9th.... and then *again* in the 10th!
Craziest game I ever saw. I still remember Steve Trout got chased in, the 2nd? One of my buddies calling and saying “we’re going to the park for a pickup game” and saying basically “wait till the 7th or 8th”.... By which, nah... I’m watching the end of this because you never know.