This list was submitted by USER00965 on Sunday, January 16th, 2000 at 2:12 PM PST for The 2000 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Tom Landry | February 12th, 2000 | 75 |
| 9 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
| 8 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
| 7 | Maurice Richard | May 27th, 2000 | 78 |
| 6 | Harry Secombe | April 11th, 2001 | 79 |
| 5 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | April 17th, 2014 | 87 |
| 4 | Ian Dury | March 27th, 2000 | 57 |
| 3 | King Fahd | July 31st, 2005 | 84 |
| 2 | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | August 24th, 2004 | 78 |
| 1 | Dale Evans | February 7th, 2001 | 88 |
| 21 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