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Joe Niekro . . . Dead?

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  • mkg809mkg809 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭
    Guess his cards will be flooding eBay in the next few hours.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very sad.

    I always enjoyed watching the Niekro brothers play.

    I extend my prayers to his family.

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  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    Sadly he will only be remembered by most for the incident in 1987? when the umps asked him to empty his pockets and he tossed the emory board out as inconspicuous as possible, only to be caught by one of the umps...
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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    That stinks, only 61!! I hope he did not suffer!! I believe he played for the Tigers in the early 70.
  • Brian48Brian48 Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, I noticed that too. 61 is not really old by today's standards.

    A shame. I grew up watching the Niekro brothers too. Man, I'm getting old.
  • dranozdranoz Posts: 34


    << <i>Sadly he will only be remembered by most for the incident in 1987? when the umps asked him to empty his pockets and he tossed the emory board out as inconspicuous as possible, only to be caught by one of the umps... >>



    That is truly sad, because it was a BS call. The grandstanding ump (not to mention MLB) would have us believe that the guy was discreetly pulling an emory board out of his pocket, on the mound, in front of thousands of people and TV cameras and working the ball over with it... then putting it back. Really? Guy would hafta be Penn and Teller rolled into one. Frankly, Joe's explanation was the only one that made sense.
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  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    Funny I was just talking about that when this Kenny Roger's issue went down. I forgot who the pitcher was... I was 10 gimme a break guys... k?
  • RedRomad275RedRomad275 Posts: 728
    I was thinking of the same moment the other day when I was opening some 86 Leaf and got the card of both brothers. Sad to hear. He was young.

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  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭


    << <i>That stinks, only 61!! I hope he did not suffer!! I believe he played for the Tigers in the early 70. >>




    Yes that is correct.He pitched a 1 hitter for the Tigers once.
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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That is truly sad, because it was a BS call. The grandstanding ump (not to mention MLB) would have us believe that the guy was discreetly pulling an emory board out of his pocket, on the mound, in front of thousands of people and TV cameras and working the ball over with it... then putting it back. Really? Guy would hafta be Penn and Teller rolled into one. Frankly, Joe's explanation was the only one that made sense. >>



    I remember thinking the same thing. How could he possibly have used that emory board without anyone seeing??? What was Joe's explanation? I don't recall.

    Making this sadder is the fact that Joe's son, Lance, is playing in the bigs now. Joe won't get the chance to see him blossom into a full-time player. A real shame.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
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