Don Zimmer
Baseball is all about history… the stats… the teams… the personalities. We lost one last night.
Popeye has left us. Don Zimmer, the tobacco chewing, pepperpot 3rd baseman, turned coach, turned manager, turned baseball ambassador. passed away last nite in Floirda.
Zim spent 66-years in the game.
He was a grinder as a player, a star in the Dodgers farm system, who got beaned in the head, and was never quite the same again. . They put a metal plate in his skull to help the healing in the 1950s, and he said no problem, there’s not much there anyway.
He played with Jackie Robinson in Brooklyn; played for Casey Stengel on that (40-120) Mets team, won rings, and lost lots of games too.. (more…)
