Harold Peter Henry "Pee Wee" Reese
(July 23, 1918 – August 14, 1999)

Baseball player “Pee Wee” Reese was a 10-time MLB All-Star shortstop for the
Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958. He helped lead the team
to a World Series Championship in 1955. Reese got his nickname, "Pee Wee,"
by being a champion marbles player. After retiring in 1958, he became manager
of the the Dodgers’ and led the team to another World Series Championship
in 1959.

Known to his many fans as "Nate the Great". 

Nathaniel "Nate" Thurmond (July 25, 1941 – July 16, 2016)

(FofNews) – NBA great Nate Thurmond died Saturday after a short battle
with leukemia. The seven-time All-Star center’s death came a month after
two of his former teams, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State
Warriors, met in the NBA Finals. Both franchises have retired Thurmond’s
number 42 jersey.

Joseph Henry Garagiola, Sr. (February 12, 1926 – March 23, 2016)

Joe Garagiola, a Major League Baseball legend who successfully moved from
the field to the broadcast booth, has died. The Arizona Diamondbacks made
the announcement Wednesday. The cause of his death is unclear at this time.

 
The front and back of one of the Ty Cobb baseball cards found.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — From a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house came 
a baseball card find of a lifetime. Seven of them, actually.

Card experts in Southern California said Wednesday that they have verified the 
legitimacy and seven-figure total value of seven identical Ty Cobb cards from
the printing period of 1909 to 1911. Before the recent find. there were only
about 15 known to still exist.

Joe Orlando, the president of Professional Sports Authenticator in Newport 
Beach, California, who verified the find, said it is "spectacular" and “miraculous”
to have come across such a cache.

Orlando said in a statement…."I am not sure if any other baseball card find is
more remarkable than this new discovery.”

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb  (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961)

Ty Cobb, nicknamed "The Georgia Peach", was an Major League Baseball
outfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons
with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team’s player-manager, and finished
his career with the Philadelphia Athletics.

 
Brian Thomas

Michael Jeffrey Jordan is 53 today.