Kept Meter, Odds Defeater, Feet Fleeter, Head Beater
Rocked by the Infinite
Stanley Kunitz, poet, has died at the age of 100. His career spanned 75 years and included the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for the creatively titled “Selected Poems: 1928-1958,” a National Medal of the Arts and a National Book Award at the age of 90 and was named U.S. poet laureate at the age of 95. Among his works were “Then Snakes of September,” which was expanded into the screenplay for this summer’s “Snakes on a Plane,” “The Portrait,” in which he recalled his father’s suicide, and the spiritual journey of “The Long Boat.” Along the way he was also a failed farmer, lousy soldier and abortive professor, proving those who can’t do anything, write poetry.
Those who forecast the last stanza included Kirsti’s You're as Young as You Feel, and You Feel Pretty Wrinkly, making her move with her second hit in 2 weeks, jumping from last to 12th over that time, while Shawn’s Team Two – Older, Monty’s Great Hits of Brits and Lits and Natalie join the dogpile at 18th.
Six Million Dollar Corpse
Bruce Peterson made weekly appearances on TV for 4 years, but you’ve probably never heard of him. And now he’s dead at the age of 72 of natural causes. Aren’t you ashamed? Peterson was the test pilot for the M2-F2, a wingless aircraft dropped from a B-52 that performed about as well as you might expect a wingless aircraft to, crashing spectacularly into a dry lakebed in 1967. The accident and the recovery that followed inspired ‘70s classic The Six Million Dollar Man, though Peterson joked that his parts cost a little less, and footage from his accident was part of the opening montage on the program.
Stunted
Jim Delsing, midget caddy, has died at the age of 80. An outstanding defensive outfielder for 10 seasons in the majors, Delsing’s most memorable moment came after Eddie Gaedel’s lone major league plate appearance. Desperate for publicity, St. Louis Browns’ owner Bill Veeck hired the 3-foot-8 inch circus performer to pinch-hit in the first inning of a game. With a strike zone a shade smaller than Rickey Henderson’s, Gaedel walked on four pitches. Not willing to wait the 35 minutes it would have taken to advance him to second, the Browns pinch-ran for him with Jim Delsing, who was stranded at third as the Browns lost again.
Listing Beats Patterson
(Props to Joe)
Boxer in a Box
(Stolen from The Derby Dead Pool where I’m biding my time in 26th)
Floyd Patterson, who got hit in the head a lot by some of the greatest heavyweights of all time, has died of complications of Alzheimer’s and prostate cancer at the age of 71. Patterson escaped the Bronx to become the youngest man to win the world heavyweight championship, then lose it, then win it again, the first man to recapture the title, then lost it again, skulking out of the arena in dark glasses, a fake mustache and beard, then lost a rematch. After winning the 1952 middleweight gold medal with 5 straight knockouts, Patterson fashioned a 55-8-1 career professional record, winning a then-record $8 million in purses. Patterson developed a reputation as a peaceful gentleman, even while bludgeoning men into pulp. He later served as Chairman of the New York State Athletic Association, but resigned abruptly when it was revealed the battles of his boxing career had left him with little memory of it or much of anything else.
Stanley Kunitz, poet, has died at the age of 100. His career spanned 75 years and included the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for the creatively titled “Selected Poems: 1928-1958,” a National Medal of the Arts and a National Book Award at the age of 90 and was named U.S. poet laureate at the age of 95. Among his works were “Then Snakes of September,” which was expanded into the screenplay for this summer’s “Snakes on a Plane,” “The Portrait,” in which he recalled his father’s suicide, and the spiritual journey of “The Long Boat.” Along the way he was also a failed farmer, lousy soldier and abortive professor, proving those who can’t do anything, write poetry.
Those who forecast the last stanza included Kirsti’s You're as Young as You Feel, and You Feel Pretty Wrinkly, making her move with her second hit in 2 weeks, jumping from last to 12th over that time, while Shawn’s Team Two – Older, Monty’s Great Hits of Brits and Lits and Natalie join the dogpile at 18th.
Six Million Dollar Corpse
Bruce Peterson made weekly appearances on TV for 4 years, but you’ve probably never heard of him. And now he’s dead at the age of 72 of natural causes. Aren’t you ashamed? Peterson was the test pilot for the M2-F2, a wingless aircraft dropped from a B-52 that performed about as well as you might expect a wingless aircraft to, crashing spectacularly into a dry lakebed in 1967. The accident and the recovery that followed inspired ‘70s classic The Six Million Dollar Man, though Peterson joked that his parts cost a little less, and footage from his accident was part of the opening montage on the program.
Stunted
Jim Delsing, midget caddy, has died at the age of 80. An outstanding defensive outfielder for 10 seasons in the majors, Delsing’s most memorable moment came after Eddie Gaedel’s lone major league plate appearance. Desperate for publicity, St. Louis Browns’ owner Bill Veeck hired the 3-foot-8 inch circus performer to pinch-hit in the first inning of a game. With a strike zone a shade smaller than Rickey Henderson’s, Gaedel walked on four pitches. Not willing to wait the 35 minutes it would have taken to advance him to second, the Browns pinch-ran for him with Jim Delsing, who was stranded at third as the Browns lost again.
Listing Beats Patterson
(Props to Joe)
Boxer in a Box
(Stolen from The Derby Dead Pool where I’m biding my time in 26th)
Floyd Patterson, who got hit in the head a lot by some of the greatest heavyweights of all time, has died of complications of Alzheimer’s and prostate cancer at the age of 71. Patterson escaped the Bronx to become the youngest man to win the world heavyweight championship, then lose it, then win it again, the first man to recapture the title, then lost it again, skulking out of the arena in dark glasses, a fake mustache and beard, then lost a rematch. After winning the 1952 middleweight gold medal with 5 straight knockouts, Patterson fashioned a 55-8-1 career professional record, winning a then-record $8 million in purses. Patterson developed a reputation as a peaceful gentleman, even while bludgeoning men into pulp. He later served as Chairman of the New York State Athletic Association, but resigned abruptly when it was revealed the battles of his boxing career had left him with little memory of it or much of anything else.
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