[Diddle E. Squat]

His homepage may explain a few things:

One more L.Com refugee.
Goldwater Republican
semi-libertarian
Trying to get back to Texas.
Professor of Street Pharmacology, 1963 - 1980 (Should that be updated to 6/02?)
Theoretical Hippy, 1963 - 1972 (I never could give up bathing and clean clothes)
Raised Registered Cattle
Imported Art
Military and Police Equipment Dealer
Para-Legal
OG&M title researcher
Meta-Retired.
A little woodworking
a little gunsmithing
a little hacking
still Meta-Retired

[Luke21]

The old time ballplayers are even more sensitive to things like death. These men played for the love of the game because they often didn't get paid much and had to work in the off season. My hobby is to send old cards through the mail for signatures. Sometimes the old timers write me back when returning the cards. They epitomize the great generations of our country. To say they would not appreciate and mourn a dead comrade is plain stupid. The game was rough and tough at times, but that's ridiculous.

So many of us wanted to be ballplayers as little boys, that there's an incredible sadness attached to a loss like this. In 1993, Dodger announcer and former pitcher Don Drysdale was found dead in his hotel room, leaving Vin Scully to call the game with Montreal alone from start to finish. It had to be the most horrible thing, but the game was played. This was an announcer's death after all.

Sympathies from this forty year Braves' fan.