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joeybee12

(56,177 posts) Thu Jun 5, 2014, 04:35 PM Jun 2014

Baseball loses Don Zimmer, 83

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Don Zimmer wasn't a fixture in baseball forever. It just seemed that way.

He played alongside Jackie Robinson on the only Brooklyn Dodgers team to win the World Series. He coached Derek Jeter on the New York Yankees' latest dynasty. And his own manager once was the illustrious Casey Stengel.

For 66 years, Zimmer was a most popular presence at ballparks all over, a huge chaw often filling his cheek. Everyone in the game seemed to know him, and love him.

Zimmer was still working for the Tampa Bay Rays as a senior adviser when he died Wednesday at a hospital in nearby Dunedin. He had been in a rehabilitation center since having seven hours of heart surgery in mid-April.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11034217/baseball-legend-don-zimmer-dies-83

Unfortunately they show the Pedro Martinez incident...I think Pedro handled it ok, and I don't want to get into it, but I just hope that's not all Don is remembered for...he did love the game. RIP.

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Baseball loses Don Zimmer, 83 (Original Post) joeybee12 Jun 2014 OP

The University of San Francisco Dons have recently had two players named Zimmer KamaAina Jun 2014 #1

Is Bucky F. Dent invited to the funeral? El Supremo Jun 2014 #2

I got to see him play for the Washington Senators. Kingofalldems Jun 2014 #3

RIP bigwillq Jun 2014 #4

KamaAina

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1. The University of San Francisco Dons have recently had two players named Zimmer

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Thu Jun 5, 2014, 04:46 PM

Jun 2014

Can it be?

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/promising-outfielder-bradley-zimmer-aims-to-follow-in-brothers-footsteps

The mood was bittersweet Monday, but it wasn't only about the 12-4 loss to Cal that ended the team's disappointing 2014 campaign without a trip to the postseason. Bradley Zimmer was likely wearing his home whites for USF for the final time while savoring the moment with coach Nino Giarratano....

Giarratano and the Zimmers have a history that dates back to the recruitment of Bradley's older brother, Kyle, who is a rising star in the Kansas City Royals organization. With Bradley's parents in San Diego, grandmother in Riverside and aunt in Santa Barbara, the team often stops by a Zimmer household for some home cooking during road trips to Southern California.