This list was submitted by USER02679 on Tuesday, December 7th, 1999 at 9:21 AM PST for The 2000 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Dudley Moore | March 27th, 2002 | 66 |
9 | Madame Chiang Kai-Shek | October 23rd, 2003 | 106 |
8 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
7 | Ted Williams | July 5th, 2002 | ? |
6 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
5 | Peggy Lee | January 21st, 2002 | 81 |
4 | Le Duc Anh | April 22nd, 2019 | 98 |
3 | Charles Schulz | February 12th, 2000 | 77 |
2 | Lester Maddox | June 25th, 2003 | 87 |
1 | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | March 30th, 2002 | 94 |
3 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