[dead]

he never got to see his team erase the Curse of the Bambino, but if he's watching from heaven (a place he didn't believe existed), he just might be in for a pleasant surprise this year.

No. He’s gotta wait 17 more years.

The gods of baseball show no mercy.

[aristeides]

Nobody on this thread seems to have pointed out that this is another world-class biologist who has died (although, in this case, not a microbiologist.)