This list was submitted by USER03434 on Wednesday, December 13th, 2000 at 9:44 PM PST for The 2001 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Milton Berle | March 27th, 2002 | 93 |
9 | Philip Johnson | January 25th, 2005 | 98 |
8 | Jerry Lewis | August 20th, 2017 | 91 |
7 | Buddy Ebsen | July 6th, 2003 | 95 |
6 | Mickey Rooney | April 6th, 2014 | 93 |
5 | Ralph Kiner | February 6th, 2014 | 91 |
4 | Chuck Yeager | December 7th, 2020 | 97 |
3 | Ossie Davis | February 4th, 2005 | 87 |
2 | Anthony Quinn | June 3rd, 2001 | 86 |
1 | Robert Stack | May 14th, 2003 | 84 |
2 points | 1 hit |
He invented Big League Chew. Remember that? Strands of bubble gum, that came in a pouch that made you feel like a real big time ball player chewing tobacco. Sure - they lost flavor in like 4 seconds, but that was a glorious 4 seconds. You felt yourself right up there on the mound, ready to deliver a smoking fastball right over the plate to win game 7 of the World Series. It was transformational. And Jim invented it.
Anyway, he's dead.
(d) July 10th, 2019