This list was submitted by USER01212 on Sunday, December 31st, 2000 at 12:56 PM PST for The 2001 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
9 | Queen Elizabeth II | September 8th, 2022 | 96 |
8 | Timothy McVeigh | June 11th, 2001 | ? |
7 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
6 | Gloria Stuart | September 26th, 2010 | 100 |
5 | Muhammad Ali | June 3rd, 2016 | 74 |
4 | Liz Taylor | March 23rd, 2011 | 79 |
3 | Darryl Strawberry | Alive | 62 |
2 | Jack Nicklaus | Alive | 84 |
1 | Jack Lemmon | June 27th, 2001 | 76 |
9 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