This list was submitted by USER01090 on Friday, December 15th, 2000 at 4:57 PM PST for The 2001 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
9 | Anthony Quinn | June 3rd, 2001 | 86 |
8 | Sid Caesar | February 12th, 2014 | 91 |
7 | Katharine Hepburn | June 29th, 2003 | 96 |
6 | Eunice Shriver | August 11th, 2009 | 88 |
5 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
4 | Jack Lemmon | June 27th, 2001 | 76 |
3 | Abe Vigoda | January 26th, 2016 | 94 |
2 | Fred Rogers | February 27th, 2003 | 74 |
1 | Walter Cronkite | July 17th, 2009 | 92 |
13 points | 2 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