Friday, January 26, 2007

Baseball, basketball, tennis, football...

...each lost a giant on this day in history:

Abner Doubleday 6/26/19 - 1/26/93
Died of heart disease in Mendham, N.J.


Al McGuire 9/7/28 - 1/26/01
Died of leukemia in Milwaukee, WI


Don Budge 6/13/15 - 1/26/00
Died of injuries sustained in an car
accident in Scranton, PA


Paul "Bear" Bryant 9/11/13 - 1/26/83
Died of a heart attack in Tuscaloosa, AL
(a month after coaching his last game)

1 Comments:

C.I. said...

Was Bear Bryant moonlighting in Kingston as an MC. He would have got mad love on that houndstooth stingy brim from I-Roy circa '75...

7:14 AM  

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