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CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Rickey Henderson, MLB Hall of Famer
and the only player to reach 1,000 stolen bases, died Friday
at age 65 following a bout with pneumonia at the University
of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Five days short
of his 66th birthday.
Roger Eugene Maris was a professional baseball right fielder
who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball. He is best
known for setting a new MLB single-season home run record
with 61 home runs in 1961.
Maris was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1983. In
response, Maris organized the annual Roger Maris Celebrity
Golf Tournament to raise money for cancer research and
treatment.
He died of the disease at age 51 on December 14, 1985, at M.D.
Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas and was buried at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.
Roger Maris, Joe DiMaggio and Cincinatti Reds team
manager at Al Lang Stadium dugout, St. Petersburg,
Florida in 1983.
TIM MAGUIRE
John F. Kennedy’s funeral procession to St. Matthew’s
Cathedral.
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Funeral Mass card.
On October 6, 1926, Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hit a record three
homers against the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth game of the
World Series. The Yanks won the game 10-5, but despite Ruth’s unprecedented performance, they lost the championship in the
seventh game.
In 1928, in the fourth game of another Yanks-Cards World
Series, Ruth tied his own record, knocking three more
pitches out of the same park.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
(February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)
CAMILLE BOHANNON
At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson
was acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged
wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson’s “dream team” of lawyers
employed creative and controversial methods to convince
jurors that Simpson’s guilt had not been proved “beyond a
reasonable doubt,” thus surmounting what the prosecution
called a “mountain of evidence” implicating him as the
murderer.
Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024)
In May 2023, Simpson reported that he had been diagnosed with
prostate cancer and expressed confidence that he would beat it.
He died of the disease at the age of 76.
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