RIP Ron Santo

[lostman]

Ron Santo dies at age 70

Sad, sad day for Cubbie fans everywhere.

I have a great memory of RS and the rest of the 71-72 Cubbies playing a charity basketball game at our high school, to help us raise money for a stoplight. His babysitter, at the time, was killed in a car wreck in front of our school, trying to turn left across traffic. Ron Santo, Don Kessinger, Glen Beckert, Fergie Jenkins, and of course Mr. Cub Ernie Banks...all greats!!!

RIP Mr Pizza Man! Hope you are clicking your heels up there!

 

[Horns11]

Can the veteran's committee still put him back on the ballot for the HOF? I know he wasn't the greatest player ever, but when you consider some of the pitchers and others that have made it, I don't see why not.

That guy embodied what Wrigley Field has stood for. Sticking by your team no matter what. Doing whatever it takes to be the best fan you can be.

 

[bevo barry]

Not a Cubs fan, but it is a crying shame that the Cubbies didn't make the WS in his lifetime.

 

[Horns11]

The Cubs lost the Series when he was 5 years old, but still...

 

[Texanne]

My only issue with Santo is that he thought Leo Durocher was "a fantastic man" even while Durocher was in the process of blowing the 1969 pennant.

But otherwise, RIP, Ron Santo.

 

[cloydtex]

One of my first sports heroes as a young kid growing up in Chicago in the late 1960s. Here's to you Ronnie, and your admittance to the HOF. You deserve it.

 

[cochamps]

Great tribute to him on MLB Network right now. Seemed like a really good guy, tough as nails.

 

[Alex_de_Large]

My first glove was a Ron Santo model. RIP Cubby man.