This list was submitted by Doubled484 on Saturday, December 31st, 2005 at 11:57 AM PST for The 2006 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Lou Rawls | January 6th, 2006 | 72 |
9 | Billy Graham | February 21st, 2018 | 99 |
8 | Estelle Getty | July 22nd, 2008 | 84 |
7 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
6 | Ariel Sharon | January 11th, 2014 | 85 |
5 | Gerald Ford | December 26th, 2006 | 93 |
4 | Kirk Douglas | February 5th, 2020 | 103 |
3 | Liz Taylor | March 23rd, 2011 | 79 |
2 | Saddam Hussein | December 29th, 2006 | 69 |
1 | Michael Jackson | June 25th, 2009 | 50 |
17 points | 3 hits |
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