Guest schotzee Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Msnbc reporting baseball hall of famer Kirby Puckett has died. Very sad day.RIP Kirby you'll be missed.My thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Sad I'll always remember Kirby, seemed like the guy could hit hit a baseball blindfolded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Damn, died young. Thats to bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCARFACE_BENGAL Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 I still remember the home run he hit on the 6th game of the world series against the braves....i always hated the braves, so when the twins won the world series, it was sweet...r.i.p. mr. puckett, you will always be remember by everybody that loves the game of baseball the same way as you did.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 44...holy shit. what did he die from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest schotzee Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 [quote name='Ben' post='227028' date='Mar 6 2006, 09:22 PM']44...holy shit. what did he die from?[/quote] Must have been complications due to a stroke.He had undergone brain surgery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 [quote name='schotzee' post='227032' date='Mar 6 2006, 09:25 PM'][quote name='Ben' post='227028' date='Mar 6 2006, 09:22 PM'] 44...holy shit. what did he die from?[/quote] Must have been complications due to a stroke.He had undergone brain surgery. [/quote] [url="http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/Home/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V2&newsitemid=puckett060306&showbyline=True"]http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/Home/Co...showbyline=True[/url] [quote]Kirby Puckett dead at 44 06/03/2006 9:15:55 PM Printer-friendly page Hall of Fame outfielder Kirby Puckett died Monday, a day after suffering a stroke. He was 44. CBC Sports Kirby Puckett died Monday at age 44. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight) Puckett was admitted to intensive care at Phoenix's St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center and listed in critical condition following surgery for a stroke suffered Sunday morning at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Puckett underwent the surgery at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn before being transferred to St. Joseph's, where he passed away Monday afternoon. "On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett," stated commissioner Bud Selig. "He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term ... Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly." Puckett debuted in the majors in 1984 and retired in 1995, his career cut short by glaucoma which left him blind in his right eye. Puckett retired a .318 hitter with 207 home runs, 1,085 runs batted in, 1,071 runs scored and 134 stolen bases in 1,783 games over 12 MLB seasons, all with the Minnesota Twins. The Chicago native won World Series titles in 1987 and 1991, averaging .308 (16-52) with two HRs, seven RBIs and nine runs in 14 Series games. "This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere," Twins owner Carl Pohlad said in a statement. Puckett also won the 1989 American League batting crown and set a modern record with 2,040 hits in his first 10 MLB seasons. Puckett was a six-time Gold Glove Award winner and named to 10 consecutive American League all-star teams from 1986-95. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, along with former teammate Dave Winfield, in 2001. Puckett was 40 years old at the time, making him the third-youngest inductee behind Lou Gehrig (36) and Sandy Koufax (37). Puckett, a divorced father of two children who planned to re-marry this summer, enjoyed an uneventful retirement until he was charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a restaurant on Sept. 6, 2002. He pleaded innocent to fifth-degree criminal and assault charges, false imprisonment and criminal sexual conduct and wound up acquitted of all charges by a Minneapolis jury. Puckett's accuser alleged she was waiting to use the women's washroom when he grabbed her by the arm and dragged her into the men's room. Although she claimed he pushed her into a stall and groped her breast, Puckett testified in court that he extended his arm to the woman, "like a gentleman." One of Minnesota's most beloved sports figures, he received the support of Twins management following the verdict: "Kirby's legacy will never be forgotten by baseball fans across the upper Midwest. We continue to appreciate all that Kirby has done for the Twins franchise and baseball in Minnesota."[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThurmanMunster Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 R.I.P. Kirby, i dont remember a ton from his career due to age, but i know he was a great person and a great man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WhoDeyForever Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 RIP Kirb...seemed like a great guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest #22 Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 RIP Kirby Puckett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kochman Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Sad day in baseball. RIP Kirby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MULLY Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 [quote name='ThurmanMunster' post='227046' date='Mar 7 2006, 11:36 AM']R.I.P. Kirby, i dont remember a ton from his career due to age, but i know he was a great person and a great man.[/quote] I'm sorry to hear that he died so young but to say he was a great person is a little out there. Great baseball player, yes, person, doubtful. Numerous domestic violence charges, sexual miscondcut charges...the guy was far from being a saint. MULLY Copied from Sports Illustrated's homepage: March 11, 2003 ATLANTA (SI.com) -- Baseball fans across the country were shocked last year when Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett, one of the game’s most beloved figures, was charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a suburban Minneapolis restaurant. But that incident was merely the latest in a pattern of alleged sexual indiscretions and violent acts by the former Minnesota Twins icon, according to the cover story by Frank Deford, with special reporting by George Dohrmann, in this week’s Sports Illustrated. Puckett has pleaded innocent in the restaurant incident, and is scheduled to go on trial March 24 for false imprisonment and criminal sexual assault. Laura Nygren, whom SI describes as Puckett's "mistress of many years," told the magazine that Puckett resumed an affair with her just seven weeks after he was married in 1986 -- then cheated on Nygren with numerous other women. After the onset of glaucoma in his right eye forced him to retire in 1996, Puckett began committing lewd acts in public, such as urinating in mall parking lots, Nygren told SI. Her relationship with the ex-ballplayer ended last March after he allegedly threatened her and she obtained a temporary order of protection. Shortly before Puckett was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in January 2001, a female employee of the Twins threatened to file a sexual harassment suit against the team because of Puckett’s and other men’s behavior. The Twins allegedly made a financial settlement with her, according to SI. The Twins declined to comment to the magazine about this allegation. Puckett’s ex-wife, Tonya, divorced him in December, barely a year after she told police that he threatened to kill her during a telephone conversation. Over the years, she told SI, Puckett had also tried to strangle her with an electrical cord, locked her in the basement and used a power saw to cut through a door after she had locked herself in a room. Once, she said, he even put a cocked gun to her head while she was holding their young daughter. Puckett’s upcoming trial stems from charges that he pulled a woman into the men’s room of a restaurant in Eden Prairie, Minn., on Sept. 5, 2002, and fondled her. The woman told police that Puckett released her only when her girlfriend opened the door to the men’s room and screamed. Puckett, who retired with a .318 career average, 207 home runs, 1,085 RBIs and 134 stolen bases in 12 seasons, helped Minnesota win the World Series in 1987 and 1991. But the 5-foot-8, 230-pound center fielder was revered in the Twin Cities -- and throughout baseball -- as much for his “good guy†nature as for his play. He and his ex-wife were involved in numerous community projects and during his career he won the Branch Rickey and the Roberto Clemente Man of the Year awards for community service. He’s also a member of the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame. But that image also was a sham, according to Nygren. One day after he had retired, she told SI, they were together when Puckett said he had to leave to visit a sick child who was waiting to meet him. “That’s great, you get to make that kid’s day,†Nygren told him. “That must make you feel good.†But she said Puckett just snapped back at her. “I don’t give a s---,†he said. “It’s just another kid who’s sick.†Puckett declined to be interviewed for the SI story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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