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After high school, Ernie received a scholarship to play baseball for Santa Clara University where he as All-American, All District, All Tournament and All CIBA. In 1962, immediately following the championship game of the NCAA World Series, Ernie was the first player to sign for Houston's Major League Baseball team, the Colt .45's. Find the rest of the obit below photos came from other post on this site at least if not more than a year ago or longer


http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/eas...&pid=187451279

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http://www.mccourtandtrudden.org/boo...ce-details.php

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Here is the link of his obit and below is the English translation

https://www.diariolibre.com/deportes...enez-AY8753323
SANTO DOMINGO. He died in the city of New York the petromacorisano Manuel Emilio Jiménez (El Mulo), a native of the Santa Fe sector and in the country played for the Stars and Eagles. He was 79 years old.

He played in the majors between 1962 and 1969 and in 429 games and 1003 innings batted .272 with 26 homers and 144 RBIs. It was signed in 1957 by the Twins.

On Saturday, July 4, 1964, at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Jimenez fired three homers to become the first Dominican to achieve this feat in the Major Leagues.

The match ended tied to six races, because before midnight had scheduled a fireworks festival on the occasion of the independence of the United States, which led to Jimenez, known as "The Mule", not hit in the ninth .

The first homer got it in the third episode before the shipments of Robin Roberts and the second in the fifth, the same pitcher. The third dispatched him in the eighth to pitcher Dick Hall.

Jiménez, took the third bat position in the Kansas City Athletics lineup, batted 4-4, with 3 runs scored and 5 RBIs.

At the meeting that lasted 3 hours, 37,922 fans attended.

Jiménez played for Kansas City Athletics (1962-1966), Pirates of Pittsburgh (1967-1968) and Cubs of Chicago (1969).

He made his major league debut on April 11, 1962 against the Minnesota Twins in Kansas, batting 4-3 against then-Cuban star Camilo Pascual.

Thus began a memorable rookie season in which he batted .301 (eighth in the American League) with 11 homers and 69 RBIs.

Jiménez was considered an exceptional minor league hitter. In his first professional season in 1958, he led the Northern League with a .340 batting average playing for Eau Claire Bears. After hitting .325 for Vancouver Mounties of the Pacific Coast League in 1961, he was acquired by the Athletics in a multi-player trade.

In 1961, Jiménez was sent by the Milwaukee Braves to the Kansas City Athletics.

[dennis_keith]

The Farmingdale, NY funeral home obit says that Angelo Li Petri died on November 17, 2016, so it appears that his death went unreported to the baseball world for nearly 13 months. He was 87 when he passed away.

[dennis_keith]

I remember Manny Jimenez's rookie year of 1962 where he got off to a gangbuster start and might even have led the American League in hitting for a little while in May or June. He wound up hitting .301 with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting title and he had 11 home runs with 69 RBI. He was probably the second-best offensive player on the Kansas City Athletics that year behind, 1B Norn Sieburn, who had a career year, driving in 117 runs.

[dennis_keith]

Pitcher Al Red' Worthington (born: Feb. 5,1929) is now #100 on the
Wikipedia 100 Oldest Living Players List. (MLB career 1953-1969).
His 1959 Topps baseball card.with the San Francisco Giants.


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As a reigning 1954 New York Giants World Champion
Source: 1955 New York Giants Stamp Book.

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An established reliever in his 30s, Al 'Red' Worthington
became a key contributor to the 1965 Minnesota Twins'
American League pennant drive. He spent the last 6 years
of his MLB career with the Twins



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Red Worthington: From the 1965 Minnesota Twins yearbook.
Today he's almost 89 years old and is among the 100 oldest
currently living major leaguers.

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An early bonus baby, outfielder, Tommy Brown is the most recent
player to reach 90 years of age (according to Wikipedia). Born Dec. 6, 1927.
MLB Career: Brooklyn Dodgers, Phillies, Cubs: 1944-1954
Pictured: His 1952 Topps card. Brown is the 73rd currently living player to reach age 90.
No other living major leaguers are due to turn 90 by the end of 2017.

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Lary was best known for his outstanding performances against the New York Yankees. From 1955-61 he went 27-10 against the Bronx Bombers in an era that featured players like Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and Roger Maris, among others.
His best season came in 1961, when he was an all-star, won a Gold Glove as the best-fielding pitcher and went 23-9. Only Whitey Ford had more wins in the American League that season.

See below for the complete obit



https://www.tidesports.com/former-al...-lary-dies-87/

[dennis_keith]

Frank Lary seemed to Save all his best performances for the Yankees. The first time I ever heard the term "Yankees Killer" it was in reference to Lary. He was masterful against the Yankees, even when they were at their peak in the late '50s and early '60s. All but 5 of his 128 career victories came as a Detroit Tiger (128-116) and he won more than 20 games for the Tigers in 1956 and 1961. His career was relatively brief at 12 years (1954 to 1965) and he was done in the majors by the time he was 35. Frank Lary (1930-2017) R.I.P.

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Number of living players 99 years of age: 2.
Number of living players 95 or more: 14 with #15 Neal Watlington (1953 Philadelphia Athletics) due to turn 95 on Christmas Day.
Number of players Born Before 1920: 4
Number of Players born before 1930: 117.
Number of players at least 90 years old: 73
Number of players at least 89 years old: 95
Oldest Living Baseball Hall Of Famer: (Albert) Red Schoendienst :
94 years, 10 I/2 months. (Ranked as 16th oldest living MLB player).

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http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tol...4931&fhid=8056

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"Shortly after winning the CWS, Kindall signed with the Cubs as a bonus baby. He went on to play nine seasons in the major leagues, playing for the Cubs, Indians and finishing his career with his hometown Twins. He was their starting second baseman for much of their run to the pennant, though he did not appear in the World Series". Kindall's last season as a player was 1965 and he then moved into coaching. He joined Dick Siebert, whom he played for at Minnesota, on staff at Arizona and in 1973 took over as head coach. He led the Wildcats to national championships in 1976, 1980 and 1986. He is the program's winningest coach and retired after the 1996 season with an 860-579-7 career record. He was elected to the American Baseball Coaches Association hall of fame in 1991". Read more with his obit below


http://https://www.baseballamerica.c...-kindall-dies/

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https://www.afterlife.co/us/obituary...luplow-6646130

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Picciolo spent 20 years in the Padres organization after a nine-year big league career carried him from the Athletics to the Brewers to the Angels. He was a minor league manager at rookie-level Spokane (1986-87), a roving infield instructor (1988-1990), a first base coach (mid-1990-1992), bench coach (1993-2002) and third base coach (2003-2005).

In the majors, Picciolo served under managers Greg Riddoch, Jim Riggleman and Bruce Bochy.

Picciolo’s post-San Diego days took him back to Anaheim, where he was a roving infield instruction from 2006 to 2010 and a bench coach under Mike Scioscia from 2010 to 2013.

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Am friends on Facebook with one of his high school classmates. By and large, he was one of the nicest guys in the game.

[dennis_keith]

Rob Picciolo's death on January 3 is the first known death of a major league player in 2018.

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Rob Picciolo was the 4th overall pick in the secondary phase of the 1974 draft out of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Ca. A So Cal kid Rob made a quick entrance to the majors when he broke camp as the every day SS for the Oakland A's in 1977 at the age 24. Rob took over at SS for the ever popular Bert "Campy" Campaneris who had moved on to Texas as a free agent. The 1977 A's team was the first year of a long period of bad Oakland baseball after all the great A's players of the early 70's were gone. Picciolo started 121 games at SS and hit and even .200 with a OBP of .218. Rob just did not like to walk...he walked 9 times in 419 at bats and just 25 times in 1628 total big league at bats. In 1978 the A's picked up a new SS in Mario Guerrero and Picciolo played in 78 games as a utility infielder with only 93 at bats he hit .226. In 1979 he regained the SS job for one of the worst baseball teams ever (54-108) and he rewarded the A's with a .253 AVG but only had a .261 OBP....get this "Tony Pena JR approach fans" Rob had 45 k's and 3 bb's in 348 at bats.

In 1980 Picciolo assumed a utility role again backing up Guerrero and a couple of players at 2B. He hit .240 and drew 2 walks in 271 at bats. Rob was the primary SS in the strike shortened 81 season and he had his best offensive year hitting .268 with a .290 OBP.He also played in the post season hitting .250 (2-8) in 3 games during the ALDS and ALCS. In 1982 Rob started out the season in Oakland hitting .224 in 18 games before being traded to the Brewers in May for P Mike Warren (who threw a no hitter as a rookie the same season) Rob played in just 22 games the rest of the season and went 6-21 (he did not play in the post season)

In 1983 at the age of 30 things were not looking good for Rob's career as he played in just 14 games for the Brew Crew going 6-27 (he did not walk) In 1984 after being granted his release Rob latched on with the Angels and had one last shot at glory. He played in 87 games tutoring young SS Dick Schofield JR. and hit .202 but even better some how managed a OBP less than his AVG (.200) I don't even know how that is possible... Rob was released during the winter and played 1985 (his last big league season) for the A's... He hit .275 avg in 102 at bats.

After his playing career Picciolo became the longest-tenured coach in San Diego Padres history, serving 16 consecutive years between 1990 and 2005.



1st big league game: 4.9.77 vs Minn batting 9th 0-4...1st AB ground out 5-3 vs Dave Goltz

1st big league hit: 4.11.77 single off of Nolan Ryan in Oakland

1st big league HR: 4.15.77 in Minn off of Paul Thormodsgard (solo HR)

best big league game: 8.28.79 in Toronto 4-4 with a DB, 2 rbi, 2 RS

loved to face: Mike Flanagan 9-26

hated to face: Dennis Leonard 1-18