Obituaries

[Eric the Green]

IMO, Ginsburg's untimely death is the worst national tragedy since JFK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ˈbeɪdər ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/; born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.[1] She was nominated by President Bill Clinton and was generally viewed as a moderate judge who was a consensus builder at the time of her nomination.[2][3] She eventually became part of the liberal wing of the Court as the Court shifted to the right over time. Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. During her tenure, Ginsburg wrote notable majority opinions, including United States v. Virginia (1996), Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000).

Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her older sister died when she was a baby, and her mother died shortly before Ginsburg graduated from high school. She earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University and married Martin D. Ginsburg, becoming a mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated joint first in her class. After law school, Ginsburg entered academia. She was a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field.

Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women's rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. She advocated as a volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1993. Between O'Connor's retirement in 2006 and the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, notably in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (2007). Ginsburg's dissenting opinion was credited with inspiring the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2009, making it easier for employees to win pay discrimination claims.[4]

Ginsburg received attention in American popular culture for her passionate dissents in numerous cases, widely seen as reflecting paradigmatically liberal views of the law. She was playfully and notably dubbed "The Notorious R.B.G." by a law student, a reference to the late Brooklyn-born rapper The Notorious B.I.G., and she later embraced the moniker.[5] Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

[David Horn]

(09-23-2020, 12:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: IMO, Ginsburg's untimely death is the worst national tragedy since JFK...

To be honest, she should have done what Sandra Day O'Conner and Anthony Kennedy did: retire under a President who will pick a good successor. Note, Kennedy and O'Conner are Republicans, and made sure their seats remained that way.  If RBG and Thurgood Marshall had followed that model, we wouldn't be under the gun today.

[Eric the Green]

(09-23-2020, 03:44 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 12:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: IMO, Ginsburg's untimely death is the worst national tragedy since JFK...

To be honest, she should have done what Sandra Day O'Conner and Anthony Kennedy did: retire under a President who will pick a good successor. Note, Kennedy and O'Conner are Republicans, and made sure their seats remained that way.  If RBG and Thurgood Marshall had followed that model, we wouldn't be under the gun today.

That is a good point. She could have retired in 2014, before the Republicans took the Senate too and gained the ability to block any Obama appointment, which they would have done. I guess she felt she had some good years still in her in 2014, and had the best ideas and abilities, and probably thought Hillary was going to win.

I doubt she could have anticipated that, if she resigned so Obama could pick her successor, that she would have to do it early in 2014 because the Democrats would lose the Senate in November and the Republicans would therefore and thereafter block any Obama appointment. She might have realized this if she was aware enough of history (of 6th-year midterms) and the ruthlessness of McConnell and Co.

[David Horn]

(09-23-2020, 06:47 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 03:44 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 12:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: IMO, Ginsburg's untimely death is the worst national tragedy since JFK...

To be honest, she should have done what Sandra Day O'Conner and Anthony Kennedy did: retire under a President who will pick a good successor. Note, Kennedy and O'Conner are Republicans, and made sure their seats remained that way.  If RBG and Thurgood Marshall had followed that model, we wouldn't be under the gun today.

That is a good point. She could have retired in 2014, before the Republicans took the Senate too and gained the ability to block any Obama appointment, which they would have done. I guess she felt she had some good years still in her in 2014, and had the best ideas and abilities, and probably thought Hillary was going to win.

I doubt she could have anticipated that, if she resigned so Obama could pick her successor, that she would have to do it early in 2014 because the Democrats would lose the Senate in November and the Republicans would therefore and thereafter block any Obama appointment. She might have realized this if she was aware enough of history (of 6th-year midterms) and the ruthlessness of McConnell and Co.

It's rare for the Presidency to remain with one party longer than two terms.  She saw what happened with Marshall.  She should have swallowed hard and quit under Obama.  She was already sick by then.

[Eric the Green]

(09-24-2020, 04:10 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 06:47 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 03:44 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 12:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: IMO, Ginsburg's untimely death is the worst national tragedy since JFK...

To be honest, she should have done what Sandra Day O'Conner and Anthony Kennedy did: retire under a President who will pick a good successor. Note, Kennedy and O'Conner are Republicans, and made sure their seats remained that way.  If RBG and Thurgood Marshall had followed that model, we wouldn't be under the gun today.

That is a good point. She could have retired in 2014, before the Republicans took the Senate too and gained the ability to block any Obama appointment, which they would have done. I guess she felt she had some good years still in her in 2014, and had the best ideas and abilities, and probably thought Hillary was going to win.

I doubt she could have anticipated that, if she resigned so Obama could pick her successor, that she would have to do it early in 2014 because the Democrats would lose the Senate in November and the Republicans would therefore and thereafter block any Obama appointment. She might have realized this if she was aware enough of history (of 6th-year midterms) and the ruthlessness of McConnell and Co.

It's rare for the Presidency to remain with one party longer than two terms.  She saw what happened with Marshall.  She should have swallowed hard and quit under Obama.  She was already sick by then.

The point though, is that she would have had to see this and resign no later than early in 2014. Do you think she could have?

[Warren Dew]

(09-23-2020, 03:44 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 12:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: IMO, Ginsburg's untimely death is the worst national tragedy since JFK...

To be honest, she should have done what Sandra Day O'Conner and Anthony Kennedy did: retire under a President who will pick a good successor.

This mistake can be made both ways, though.  One can argue that Sandra Day O'Connor should have held out until Trump, who would likely have granted her wish to be replaced by a woman, instead of by Roberts, one of the worst Republican appointees in the last century.

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Politician and denier of COVID-19... dies of it.  

Former Nashville Council Member Skeptical of Coronavirus Dies of COVID-19


Ashley Boucher
PeopleSeptember 21, 2020





A former council member for Nashville, Tennessee, has died of complications from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Tony Tenpenny, 57, died over the weekend after spending weeks in the hospital battling the contagious respiratory virus, NBC News reported Monday.

Tenpenny was a vocal skeptic of the virus' severity and shared several posts on social media that spread disinformation about the pandemic. Facebook even labeled at least one of his posts as "false information."

Tennessee has had more than 184,000 reported cases of COVID-19, with more than 2,000 deaths related to the virus, according to data from the state's department of health. At least 26,017 of those confirmed cases have been in Davidson County, which encompasses Nashville.

Nationwide, there have been more than 6.8 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to data from the New York Times. The deadly virus is now the third-largest killer of Americans.

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Tenpenny spent more than a month in the hospital, the Tennessean reported and was placed on a ventilator earlier this month. According to WKRN.com, Tenpenny had underlying medical issues.

"I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former councilman Tony Tenpenny. I send my condolences to his wife, Robbie, their son Ira and the rest of the Tenpenny family," Nashville Mayor John Cooper said on Twitter Sunday.
Robbie shared the news of her husband's death on Facebook, the Tennessean reported.
"It is with a very heavy heart that I let you all know, Tony passed away yesterday. Please pray for me, our son Ira and family as we process this tragic loss," she reportedly said.

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Tenpenny was a member of the Metropolitan Council's District 16 from 2011 to 2015, when he lost his bid for reelection. He ran again last year, but lost to Ginny Welsch.

"The message to me is that Covid is no joke, it knows no boundary, and no matter what you might believe, it doesn’t care," Welsch said in a statement obtained by NBC News on Monday. "Anyone can be felled by it. Not taking the precautions we know work to slow the spread is like playing Russian roulette. You are risking your life and the lives of those around you."
On Twitter, Welsch said, "So sorry to hear Tony Tenpenny lost his fight w\ Covid. I didn't know Tony, but I know he had an impact on the 16th that will be unmatched. My thoughts go out to his family, Robbie and Ira, through this difficult time. May your memories be bountiful & sweet."

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[David Horn]

(09-24-2020, 07:55 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 03:44 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 12:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: IMO, Ginsburg's untimely death is the worst national tragedy since JFK...

To be honest, she should have done what Sandra Day O'Conner and Anthony Kennedy did: retire under a President who will pick a good successor.

This mistake can be made both ways, though.  One can argue that Sandra Day O'Connor should have held out until Trump, who would likely have granted her wish to be replaced by a woman, instead of by Roberts, one of the worst Republican appointees in the last century.

Sandra Day O'Connor quit under a Republican, and was replaced by one.  If she had held on, her health problems would have become manifestly worse, and she may not have made it to Trump.  In any case, Trump has already had more than his share of appointments.

And Roberts isn't my choice either, but he is focused on the law more than anyone else on the court.

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Soviet physicist and dissident:


Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) was a nuclear physicist, human rights activist,[7] Soviet dissident,[8] founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group[9], a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group,[10] and Professor of Physics at Cornell University. He was declared a prisoner of conscience[11] while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords[12] as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union.[13]

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• 1Early career
  
• 2Dissidence
  
• 3Arrest and trial
  
• 4Protests over Orlov's trial
  
• 5Imprisonment and exile
  
• 6Deportation and US citizenship
  
• 7References
  
• 8Some publications
  
• 9Further reading
  
• 10Video
  

Early career[edit]

Yuri Orlov was born into a working-class family on 13 August 1924 and grew up in a village near Moscow.[14] His parents were Klavdiya Petrovna Lebedeva and Fyodor Pavlovich Orlov.[1] In March 1933, his father died.[1]

From 1944 to 1946, Orlov served as an officer in the Soviet army.[15] In 1952, he graduated from the Moscow State University and began his postgraduate studies at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics[16] where he later worked as a physicist.[15]

In 1956, Orlov nearly lost his career of scientist due to his speech at the party meeting devoted to the discussion of the report On the Personality Cult and its Consequences by Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the CPSU. Then he publicly called Stalin and Beria "killers who were in power" and put forward the requirement of "democracy on the basis of socialism."[17] For the pro-democracy speech he made in 1956, he was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and fired from his job.[15]

Quote:What is the meaning of life? That your soul may outlive your remains in something sacred and should escape decay ... I have again looked at, added up, corrected, and sized up what I have been doing during these last years and have seen that this is good ... (Yuri Orlov, 1980)[18]

Orlov obtained the Candidate of Sciences degree in 1958 and the Doctor of Sciences degree in 1963.[16] He became an expert on particle acceleration.[14] In 1968, he was elected a corresponding member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences[14] after he found work at the Yerevan Physics Institute.[15] In 1972, he came back to Moscow and worked at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism.[15]

Dissidence[edit]

In September 1973, when Pravda published a statement by a group of prominent academicians denouncing Andrei Sakharov's anti-patriotic activity, Orlov decided to support him, while recollecting the well memorized spells of the 1930s, in which some academicians demanded the death penalty for others already arrested; later some of these academicians themselves were arrested; and then third academicians, still alive, publicly demanded the death penalty for them.[17][19]:163[20]:161

Defending academician Sakharov, Orlov on 16 September 1973 wrote "Open Letter to L.I. Brežnev about the Reasons for the Intellectual Backwardness in the USSR and Proposals to Overcome It"[21] which appeared in underground samizdat circulation.[22] The Western press published the letter in 1974[23] but its publication in the Russian press took place only in 1991.[24]

In the early 1970s, the article by Yuri Orlov "Is a Non-Totalitarian Type of Socialism Possible?" also appeared in underground samizdat circulation.[22]

In 1973, he was fired after becoming a founding member of the first Amnesty International group in the Soviet Union.[15]

In May 1976, he organized the Moscow Helsinki Group and became its chairman.[15] Andrei Sakharov praised Orlov for systematically documenting Soviet violations of the human rights provisions of the Helsinki accords.[25] Orlov ignored orders to disband the Moscow Helsinki Group when the KGB told him the group was illegal.[26] The KGB head Yuri Andropov determined, "The need has thus emerged to terminate the actions of Orlov, fellow Helsinki monitor Ginzburg and others once and for all, on the basis of existing law."[27]

Arrest and trial[edit]

On 10 February 1977, Orlov was arrested.[28][29][30] In March 1977, Orlov published the article about his arrest "The road to my arrest."[31] In a closed trial, he was denied the right to examine evidence and to call witnesses.[32]

The courtroom was filled with some 50 individuals selected by authorities, while supporters and friends of Orlov, including Andrei Sakharov, were barred from entering because there was no room.[5] Orlov's summation was interrupted many times by the judge and the prosecutor and by spectators who shouted "spy" and "traitor."[5] According to Orlov's wife Irina, hostile spectators in the courtroom applauded the sentence and shouted: "You should have given him more."[33]

Orlov at the trial argued that he has a right to criticize the government and a right to circulate such criticism under the freedom of information provisions of the Helsinki Accords.[5] Orlov also argued that he circulated such information for humanitarian, not subversive, reasons.[5] On 15 May 1978, Orlov was sentenced to seven years of a labor camp and five years internal exile for his work with the Moscow Helsinki Group.[34]

Protests over Orlov's trial[edit]

US President Jimmy Carter expressed his concern over the severity of the sentence and the secrecy of the trial.[35] Washington senator Henry M. Jackson said, "The Orlov trial, and the Ginzburg and Shcharansky incarcerations, are dramatic cases in point" when discussing Soviet breaches of law.[36] The US National Academy of Sciences has officially protested against the trial of Orlov.[37]

In the summer of 1978, 2400 American scientists[38] including physicists at the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory created Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky (SOS), an international movement to promote and protect the human rights of scientists.[39]:547 An initiator of SOS was American physicist Andrew Sessler,[40] its chairman was Prof. Morris Pripstein.[41]

Scientists at CERN have spoken out against the imprisonment of Orlov for "disseminating anti-Soviet propaganda".[42] 43 physicists have called off Soviet trips to protest the jailing of Orlov.[43]

Imprisonment and exile[edit]

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A street in Kobyay

For the first year and a half, Orlov was imprisoned in Lefortovo Prison, then Perm Camp 35 and 37.[18] In Perm Camp 37, he has mounted three hunger strikes to make the prison authorities return his confiscated writings and notes.[44] Two articles written by Orlov in the camp were smuggled and published abroad.[45] On 5 July 1983, the Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky sent the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov a letter asking for the release of Orlov to Austria, but it was intentionally left without an answer.[46]

The New York-based Helsinki Watch issued a statement about Orlov's health deterioration, "He has frequent headaches and dizzy spells, resulting from an old skull injury. He suffers from kidney and prostate inflammation, low blood pressure, rheumatic pains, toothaches, insomnia and vitamin deficiency. Medical care in the labor camp is extremely inadequate."[25] Orlov also suffered from tuberculosis.[47] He has lost a good deal of weight and most of his teeth.[48] Orlov's wife said he looked extremely emaciated and that she was "very fearful for my husband's health. The authorities are gradually killing him."[49]

In 1984, Orlov was exiled to Kobyay in Siberia and was allowed to buy a house with a garden.[30] On 14 November 1985, Professor George Wald raised the case of Orlov in a talk with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who answered he had not heard of Orlov.[50]

Deportation and US citizenship[edit]

On 30 September 1986, the KGB proposed to expel Orlov from the Soviet Union after depriving him of his Soviet citizenship and met with approval from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[51] Orlov's discharge from Siberian exile was part of the U.S.–Soviet deal to release journalist Nicholas Daniloff.[52] Orlov's release from exile and expulsion from the USSR lifted hopes among Westerners that the Helsinki process might finally start yielding progress.[53] US President Jimmy Carter said, "As for Orlov, we're very delighted with this happy occurrence. We would like to meet with him if he comes to this country, but I don't know that he will. I have no way of knowing his plans."[54]

Orlov, 24 November 1986

On 10 December 1986, Orlov was awarded the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter-Menil_Human_Rights_Prize]Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize of $100,000.[55]:253

Since 1987, Orlov has been working at Cornell University as a scientist and professor.[56]

Orlov was a visiting Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1988/89.[4][57]

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Orlov studied particle accelerator design, beam interaction analysis and quantum mechanics. He has authored and co-authored numerous research papers,[58] articles on human rights,[59] and an autobiography, Dangerous Thoughts (1991).[60]

In 1990, Gorbachev restored Soviet citizenship to Orlov and other 23 prominent exiles and emigres who lost the right in the period from 1966 to 1988.[61][62][63] Orlov told Gorbachev, "I would say you have a very great power in your hands, the K.G.B., and you should therefore carry out your reforms without fearing anyone at all. Afterward, you should liquidate the K.G.B., because it is a cancer."[64] On 18 July 1991, Orlov and Elena Bonner wrote an open letter about the fact that Soviet army and special troops have been systematically deporting thousands of Armenians from Azerbaijan to Armenia.[65]

In 1993, Orlov received American citizenship.[57]

In 1995 the American Physical Society awarded him the Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service.[66] In 2005 he was named the first recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize, awarded biennially by the American Physical Society to honor scientists for exceptional work in promoting human rights.[66][67] In 2004, Orlov expressed his opinion about Russia and Vladimir Putin by saying, "Russia is flying backwards in time. Putin is like Stalin, and he speaks in the language of the thug, the mafia."[68] On 24 March 2005, Orlov wrote a letter to Putin to express disquiet over the criminal prosecution of Anna Mikhalchuk, Yuri Samodurov, and Ludmila Vasilovskaya in the case concerning the Sakharov Museum exhibition on religion.[69]

Orlov participated in two documentaries about the Soviet dissident movement, the 2005 one They Chose Freedom[70] and in the 2014 one Parallels, Events, People.
He was a member of the Human Rights Watch Asia Advisory and Academic Freedom Committees, and member of the Honorary 25th Anniversary Committee, Global Rights. Orlov died on 27 September 2020, aged 96.[71]

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Two singers:

Helen Reddy

Helen Maxine Reddy (25 October 1941 – 29 September 2020) was an Australian-American singer, actress and activist. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, to a show-business family, Reddy started her career as an entertainer at age four. She sang on radio and television and won a talent contest on the television program, Bandstand,[a] in 1966; her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which was unsuccessful. She pursued her international singing career by moving to Chicago and, subsequently, Los Angeles, where she made her debut singles "One Way Ticket" and "I Believe in Music" in 1968 and 1970 respectively. The B-side of the latter single, "I Don't Know How to Love Him", reached No. 8 on the pop chart of Canadian magazine RPM. She was signed to Capitol Records a year later.[2]


During the 1970s, Reddy enjoyed international success, especially in the United States where she placed 15 singles on the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the Top 10 and three reached No. 1, including her signature hit "I Am Woman".[3][4] She placed 25 songs on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart; 15 made the Top 10 and eight reached No. 1, six consecutively. In 1974, at the inaugural American Music Awards, she won the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. On television, she was the first Australian to host a one-hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network, along with specials that were seen in more than 40 countries.[5]
Between the 1980s and 1990s, as her single "I Can't Say Goodbye to You" became her last to chart in the US, Reddy acted in musicals and recorded albums such as Center Stage before retiring from live performance in 2002. She returned to university in Australia, earned a degree and practised as a clinical hypnotherapist and motivational speaker. In 2011, after singing "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" with her half-sister, Toni Lamond, for Lamond's birthday, Reddy decided to return to live performing.[5]

Reddy's song "I Am Woman" played a significant role in popular culture, becoming an anthem for second-wave feminism. She came to be known as a "feminist poster girl" or a "feminist icon".[6] In 2011, Billboard named her the No. 28 adult contemporary artist of all time (No. 9 woman). In 2013, the Chicago Tribune dubbed her as the "Queen of '70s Pop

Mac Davis.

Morris Mac Davis[1] (January 21, 1942 – September 29, 2020) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor, originally from Lubbock, Texas; he enjoyed much crossover success.[2] His early work writing for Elvis Presley produced the hits "Memories", "In the Ghetto", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "A Little Less Conversation". A subsequent solo career in the 1970s produced hits such as "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me". He also starred in his own variety show, a Broadway musical, and various films and TV shows.[3][4][5]

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The St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Team will have two retired numbers on their sleeves next year. Lou Brock's 20 and Bob Gibson's 45.

Robert Gibson (November 9, 1935 – October 2, 2020)


Robert Gibson (November 9, 1935 – October 2, 2020) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals (1959–1975). 

Nicknamed "Gibby" and "Hoot" (after actor Hoot Gibson), Gibson tallied 251 wins, 3,117 strikeouts, and a 2.91 earned run average (ERA) during his career. A nine-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, he won two Cy Young Awards and the 1968 National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award. Known for a fiercely competitive nature and for intimidating opposing batters, he was elected in 1981 to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. The Cardinals retired his uniform number 45 in September 1975 and inducted him into the team Hall of Fame in 2014.


Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Gibson overcame childhood illness to excel in youth sports, particularly basketball and baseball. After briefly playing under contract to both the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and the St. Louis Cardinals organization, Gibson decided to continue playing only baseball professionally. He became a full-time starting pitcher in July 1961 and earned his first All-Star appearance in 1962. Gibson won two of three games he pitched in the 1964 World Series, then won 20 games in a season for the first time in 1965. Gibson also pitched three complete game victories in the 1967 World Series. The pinnacle of Gibson's career was 1968, when he posted a 1.12 ERA for the season and then recorded 17 strikeouts in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series.

Gibson threw a no-hitter in 1971, but began experiencing swelling in his knee in subsequent seasons. After retiring as a player in 1975, Gibson later served as pitching coach for his former teammate Joe Torre. At one time a special instructor coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, Gibson was later selected for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. Gibson was the author of the memoir Pitch by Pitch, with Lonnie Wheeler. Gibson died of pancreatic cancer in 2020.




“Gibby is one of baseball’s greatest competitors.” – Stan Musial

Bob Gibson may well have been the most intimidating pitcher in history. He was certainly one of the most successful. The Omaha, Neb., native excelled at baseball and basketball in high school, and played college hoops for Creighton University before a brief stint with the Harlem Globetrotters. In 1957, he signed with the Cardinals and made his big league debut in 1959.

A 15-game winner by 1962, Gibson began to take flight soon after. He won 18 games in 1963, and 19 in the Cardinals’ pennant winning season of 1964, when he went 9-2 in his final 11 starts down the stretch to lead the Redbirds. In the World Series against the Yankees, he went 2-1, winning Game 5 at Yankee Stadium and then Game 7 at home on two days rest. He was named World Series MVP.

He was a 20-game winner in 1965 and ’66, winning the first of nine consecutive Gold Gloves Awards in ’65. A broken ankle in July of 1967 slowed him down to a 13-7 record, including three wins late in the season to help the Cards clinch another pennant. He went 3-0 with an ERA of 1.00 in the Cardinals' victory over the Red Sox, winning Games 1, 4, and 7 and picking up his second World Series MVP Award.

The 1968 season has come to be known as “The Year of the Pitcher,” and Bob Gibson was certainly the pitcher of the year. He went 22-9 with a sparkling ERA of 1.12 to go along with 268 strikeouts, 13 shutouts, 15 consecutive wins and a stretch of 95 innings in which he gave up just two runs. He was again 2-1 in the World Series, beating the Tigers in Games 1 and 4 before going the distance in a Game 7 loss.

Gibson brought home both the 1968 Cy Young Award and the NL Most Valuable Player Awards, and, in the ultimate compliment, baseball lowered the mound the following season, because pitchers, led by Gibson, were dominating hitters and games were historically low-scoring.

Gibson earned a second Cy Young Award in 1970, and pitched a no-hitter against the Pirates in 1971. Injuries were beginning to take their toll, however, and Gibson wound down with double figure victory totals in 1973 and ’74 before retiring in 1975. Gibson’s 17 years with the Cardinals netted 251 victories, 3,117 strikeouts, 56 shutouts and an ERA of 2.91. He later served as a pitching coach for the Mets, Braves, and Cardinals. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1981, and the MLB All-Century Team in 1999.
Joe Torre, Gibson’s teammate from 1969-’75 and a sometime battery mate, said: “Pride, intensity, talent, respect, dedication. You need them all to describe Bob Gibson.”


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 ... and the ace pitcher of the 1969 New York Mets,  

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Irina Vyacheslavovna Murakhtaeva (Russian: Ирина Вячеславовна Мурахтаева; née Kolebanova; 8 January 1973 - 2 October 2020), known professionally as Irina Slavina, was a Russian journalist, public and political figure, editor-in-chief of the Koza. On 2 October 2020, she committed an act of self-immolation in front of the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.[1]

According to Current Time TV, in March 2019, a court in Nizhny Novgorod fined Slavina 20 thousand rubles, finding her guilty of organizing an uncoordinated march in memory of Boris Nemtsov. In the fall of 2019, the court of Nizhny Novgorod fined Slavina 70 thousand rubles under the article on disrespect for the authorities and society (part 3 of article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). According to a statement from representatives of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a case was opened against Slavina for the post to the Investigative Committee of Russia: "After Stalin's face was hung on the house in Nizhny Novgorod, it is proposed to rename the settlement to Shakhunya" The head of the Agora human rights group, Pavel Chikov, draws attention to the fact that Slavina was fined the largest possible under the article on disrespect for the authorities. Colleagues and acquaintances of the journalist suggest that this was done in order to close down the publication that occupies an opposition position.

According to MBH Media, in June 2020, a protocol on fake news was drawn up against Slavina (part 9, article 13.15 of the Administrative Code) because of the material that one of the heads of the Sambo Academy in the town of Kstovo contracted the SARS-CoV-2 and returning from Europe, he contacted dozens of people, including visitors to the academy. The law enforcers considered that Slavina spread deliberately false information under the guise of reliable.

In August 2019, a memorial plaque in memory of Stalin was installed in Shakhunya - to the 140th anniversary of his birth. Slavina, in her post on Facebook, suggested renaming Shakhunya, changing the last few letters in the name of the settlement, so that the result was an obscene word.[2][3][4] In October 2019, the "E" center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia opened an administrative case of disrespect for the authorities and society (part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code) against Slavina (Murakhtaeva), editor-in-chief of the KozaPress online publication.[5] In June 2020, an administrative protocol was drawn up against Slavina on the dissemination of deliberately false information (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation) for posting information about COVID-19.[6]

In July 2020, Slavina was fined for posting information about the Free People forum.[7]

In June 2016, together with Askhat Kayumov and Andrei Khomov, Slavina headed the list of the Yabloko party in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.[8]
In 2016, as a candidate from the Yabloko party, she took part in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the Prioksky single-mandate district of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and took 8th place out of 10, gaining 3,468 votes or 1.28%.

Irina Murakhtaeva used the creative pseudonym Irina Slavina for her journalistic activities.
In 2015, she founded and headed, as editor-in-chief, the regional network edition "Koza.Press", covering the social and political events of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Slavina_(editor)

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guitarist Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (Dutch: [ˈɛdvart ˈloːdəˌʋɛi̯k fɑn ˈɦaːlə(n)], /væn ˈheɪlɛn/ van HAY-len; January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was a Dutch-American musician, songwriter, producer, and inventor. He was the main songwriter and lead guitarist of the American rock band Van Halen, which he co-founded in 1972 with his brother and drummer Alex Van Halen, bassist Mark Stone, and singer David Lee Roth. He was best known for popularizing the tapping guitar solo technique, allowing rapid arpeggios to be played with two hands on the fretboard. In 2012, he was voted number one in a Guitar World magazine reader's poll for "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Born on January 26, 1955, in Amsterdam,[3] Netherlands, Edward Lodewijk van Halen (Dutch: [ˈɛdʋɑrt ˈloːdəʋɛjk vɑnˈhaːlə(n)]) was the son of Jan van Halen and Eugenia van Halen (née van Beers). Jan was a Dutch clarinetist, saxophonist, and pianist, and Eugenia was an Indo (Eurasian) from Rangkasbitung on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).[4][5] The family eventually resettled in Nijmegen.[6]

In February 1962, the Van Halen family moved from the Netherlands to the United States, settling in Pasadena, California.[5] Both Eddie and his older brother, Alex van Halen, were naturalized as U.S. citizens.[7] The brothers learned to play the piano as children starting at the age of six.[8][9] They commuted from Pasadena to San Pedro to study with an elderly piano teacher, Stasys Kalvaitis.[10]

Quote:We came here with approximately $50 and a piano, and we didn't speak the language. Now look where we are. If that’s not the American dream, what is?[11]

Van Halen revealed in an interview that he had never been able to read music. Instead, he learned from watching and listening. During recitals of Bach or Mozart, he would improvise. From 1964 through 1967, he won first place in the annual piano competition held at Long Beach City College.[10] Afterward, the judges would comment that he had an interesting interpretation of the classical piece. Van Halen's view was, "What? I thought I was playing it correctly!" However, according to one interview, playing the piano did not prove to be challenging or interesting to him.[12] Consequently, while Alex began playing the guitar, Eddie bought a drum kit for himself; however, after Eddie heard Alex's performance of The Surfaris' drum solo in the song "Wipe Out", he decided to switch instruments and began learning how to play the electric guitar.[12] According to Eddie, as a teen, he would often practice while walking around at home with his guitar strapped on or sitting in his room for hours with the door locked.[13][14]

Eddie and Alex formed their first band with three other boys, calling themselves The Broken Combs, performing at lunchtime at Hamilton Elementary School in Pasadena, where Eddie was in the fourth grade. Eddie would later say that this was when he first felt the desire to become a professional musician.[15]

Eddie described supergroup Cream's "I'm So Glad" on Goodbye to be "mind-blowing".[16] He once claimed that he had learned almost all of Eric Clapton's solos in the band Cream "note for note. ... I've always said Eric Clapton was my main influence," Van Halen said, "but Jimmy Page was actually more the way I am, in a reckless-abandon kind of way."

The 1978 instrumental "Eruption" by Van Halen, which was voted No. 2 in Guitar World's readers poll of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos",[47][48] showcased a solo technique called tapping, using both left and right hands on the guitar neck. Although Van Halen popularized tapping, he did not invent the tapping technique, which had been used infrequently by various guitarists before then. Steve Hackett, lead guitarist with Genesis in the 1970s, is said by MusicRadar to be "widely credited with inventing two-handed tapping" and was an influence on Van Halen.[49] When asked about this, Hackett said, "Eddie and I have never spoken about it, but yes, he has credited me with tapping... Eddie is a fine player, of course, and he's the one who named the technique."[50]


George Lynch also said in an interview that he and Van Halen saw Harvey Mandel tap at the Starwood in the 1970s.[51] Van Halen also named Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin as an influence, saying in one interview with Guitar World:

Quote:I think I got the idea of tapping watching Jimmy Page do his "Heartbreaker" solo back in 1971. He was doing a pull-off to an open string, and I thought wait a minute, open string ... pull off. I can do that, but what if I use my finger as the nut and move it around? I just kind of took it and ran with it.[52]

Until it expired in 2005, Van Halen held a patent for a flip-out support device that attaches to the rear of the electric guitar.[53] This device enables the user to play the guitar in a manner similar to the piano by orienting the face of the guitar upward instead of forward.[54][55][56]

[Marypoza]

(10-06-2020, 05:59 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: guitarist Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (Dutch: [ˈɛdvart ˈloːdəˌʋɛi̯k fɑn ˈɦaːlə(n)], /væn ˈheɪlɛn/ van HAY-len; January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was a Dutch-American musician, songwriter, producer, and inventor. He was the main songwriter and lead guitarist of the American rock band Van Halen, which he co-founded in 1972 with his brother and drummer Alex Van Halen, bassist Mark Stone, and singer David Lee Roth. He was best known for popularizing the tapping guitar solo technique, allowing rapid arpeggios to be played with two hands on the fretboard. In 2012, he was voted number one in a Guitar World magazine reader's poll for "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Born on January 26, 1955, in Amsterdam,[3] Netherlands, Edward Lodewijk van Halen (Dutch: [ˈɛdʋɑrt ˈloːdəʋɛjk vɑnˈhaːlə(n)]) was the son of Jan van Halen and Eugenia van Halen (née van Beers). Jan was a Dutch clarinetist, saxophonist, and pianist, and Eugenia was an Indo (Eurasian) from Rangkasbitung on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).[4][5] The family eventually resettled in Nijmegen.[6]

In February 1962, the Van Halen family moved from the Netherlands to the United States, settling in Pasadena, California.[5] Both Eddie and his older brother, Alex van Halen, were naturalized as U.S. citizens.[7] The brothers learned to play the piano as children starting at the age of six.[8][9] They commuted from Pasadena to San Pedro to study with an elderly piano teacher, Stasys Kalvaitis.[10]

Quote:We came here with approximately $50 and a piano, and we didn't speak the language. Now look where we are. If that’s not the American dream, what is?[11]

Van Halen revealed in an interview that he had never been able to read music. Instead, he learned from watching and listening. During recitals of Bach or Mozart, he would improvise. From 1964 through 1967, he won first place in the annual piano competition held at Long Beach City College.[10] Afterward, the judges would comment that he had an interesting interpretation of the classical piece. Van Halen's view was, "What? I thought I was playing it correctly!" However, according to one interview, playing the piano did not prove to be challenging or interesting to him.[12] Consequently, while Alex began playing the guitar, Eddie bought a drum kit for himself; however, after Eddie heard Alex's performance of The Surfaris' drum solo in the song "Wipe Out", he decided to switch instruments and began learning how to play the electric guitar.[12] According to Eddie, as a teen, he would often practice while walking around at home with his guitar strapped on or sitting in his room for hours with the door locked.[13][14]

Eddie and Alex formed their first band with three other boys, calling themselves The Broken Combs, performing at lunchtime at Hamilton Elementary School in Pasadena, where Eddie was in the fourth grade. Eddie would later say that this was when he first felt the desire to become a professional musician.[15]

Eddie described supergroup Cream's "I'm So Glad" on Goodbye to be "mind-blowing".[16] He once claimed that he had learned almost all of Eric Clapton's solos in the band Cream "note for note. ... I've always said Eric Clapton was my main influence," Van Halen said, "but Jimmy Page was actually more the way I am, in a reckless-abandon kind of way."

The 1978 instrumental "Eruption" by Van Halen, which was voted No. 2 in Guitar World's readers poll of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos",[47][48] showcased a solo technique called tapping, using both left and right hands on the guitar neck. Although Van Halen popularized tapping, he did not invent the tapping technique, which had been used infrequently by various guitarists before then. Steve Hackett, lead guitarist with Genesis in the 1970s, is said by MusicRadar to be "widely credited with inventing two-handed tapping" and was an influence on Van Halen.[49] When asked about this, Hackett said, "Eddie and I have never spoken about it, but yes, he has credited me with tapping... Eddie is a fine player, of course, and he's the one who named the technique."[50]


George Lynch also said in an interview that he and Van Halen saw Harvey Mandel tap at the Starwood in the 1970s.[51] Van Halen also named Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin as an influence, saying in one interview with Guitar World:

Quote:I think I got the idea of tapping watching Jimmy Page do his "Heartbreaker" solo back in 1971. He was doing a pull-off to an open string, and I thought wait a minute, open string ... pull off. I can do that, but what if I use my finger as the nut and move it around? I just kind of took it and ran with it.[52]

Until it expired in 2005, Van Halen held a patent for a flip-out support device that attaches to the rear of the electric guitar.[53] This device enables the user to play the guitar in a manner similar to the piano by orienting the face of the guitar upward instead of forward.[54][55][56]

RlP Eddie 

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Whitey Ford

Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford (October 21, 1928 – October 8, 2020),[1][2] nicknamed "The Chairman of the Board", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played his entire 16-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New York Yankees. He was a ten-time All-Star and six-time World Series champion. In 1961, he won both the Cy Young Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award. Ford led the American League (AL) in wins three times and in earned run average (ERA) twice. He is the Yankees franchise leader in career wins (236), shutouts (45), innings pitched (3,170 1⁄3), and games started by a pitcher (438; tied with Andy Pettitte). Ford was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.[3]


Ford signed with the Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1947 and made his major league debut in 1950. Following a two-year sojourn to serve in the United States Army during the Korean War, Ford returned to the Yankees in 1953 and pitched for them until retiring in 1967. During his tenure with the team, Ford set numerous World Series pitching records, including consecutive scoreless innings (33 2⁄3), wins (10), games started (22), innings pitched (146), and strikeouts (94). The Yankees retired his uniform number 16 in 1974 and dedicated a plaque in his honor in Monument Park in 1987. Ford served as the Yankees pitching coach in 1964 while still a player and from 1974 to 1975 after retiring. He also served as the team's first base coach in 1968.
In the wake of Yogi Berra's death in 2015, George Vecsey of The New York Times suggested that Ford was now "The Greatest Living Yankee."[4] Ford died on October 8, 2020, at the age of 91.

 

Ford won 236 games for the New York Yankees (career 236–106), still a franchise record.[20] Ford is tied with Dave Foutz for the fourth-best winning percentage in baseball history at .690.[21]

Ford's 2.75 earned run average is the third-lowest among starting pitchers whose careers began after the advent of the live-ball era in 1920. Only Clayton Kershaw (2.51) and Jacob deGrom (2.61) have a lower ERA.[22] Ford's worst ERA in a single season was 3.24.[16] Ford had 45 shutout victories in his career,[14] including eight 1–0 wins.[16]
As a hitter, Ford posted a .173 batting average (177-for-1,023) with 91 runs, 3 home runs, 69 runs batted in (RBI), and 113 bases on balls. In 22 World Series games, he batted .082 (4-for-49) with 4 runs, 3 RBI, and 7 walks. Defensively, he recorded a .961 fielding percentage.[14]

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It has been a bad year for baseball legends, has it not?

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I spoke too soon about baseball legends. Arguably one of the smartest fellows to play the game of baseball... Joe Morgan. A pitcher's dream on defense and a pitcher's nightmare as a hitter. https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/morgan-joe


“I have never seen anyone, and I mean anyone, play better than Joe has played this year.” – Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson in 1975


Comparable in size to early 20th century players at 5-foot-7, 160 pounds, Joe Morgan instead was perfectly suited to the artificial surface game of the 1970s, when he emerged as one of the key cogs in Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine.
In the Reds’ back-to-back World Series championship years in 1975-76, Morgan won back-to-back MVP awards in the National League, as well as two of his five consecutive Gold Glove Awards.

Morgan signed with the expansion Houston Colt .45s in 1962. He reached the majors for the first time in 1963 and became Houston’s regular second baseman in 1965. He spent nine seasons with Houston and made two All-Star Game appearances, but became a Hall of Famer after being traded in November 1971 to the Reds and leaving Houston’s cavernous Astrodome.

Morgan led the league in walks, on-base percentage and runs scored in his first season with Cincinnati and earned All-Star Game nods in each of his eight seasons with the Reds. In his peak years of 1975 and ’76, he twice led all of baseball in OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage.)

After leaving the Reds as a 36-year-old free agent following the 1979 season, Morgan remained a key player on winning teams, playing for Houston’s division winner in 1980, playing two productive seasons in San Francisco and then belting 16 homers for Philadelphia’s pennant-winners in 1983. He played his final season in Oakland – where he grew up – in 1984 before embarking on a long career as a broadcaster. He teamed with Jon Miller for 21 seasons on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball.

Morgan finished his career with 2,517 hits, 1,650 runs scored, 268 home runs, 689 stolen bases and 1,865 walks.
Morgan was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1990. He passed away on Oct. 11, 2020.


Kaline 6
Morgan 8
Ford 16
Brock 20
Seaver 41
Gibson 45

[Eric the Green]

Hall of Fame second baseman Joe Morgan, a key member of the Cincinnati Reds' famed Big Red Machine, died Sunday. He was 77.

Morgan died at his home Sunday in Danville, California, family spokesman James Davis said in statement Monday.

He had struggled with various health issues in recent years, including a nerve condition, a form of polyneuropathy.

Morgan was a two-time National League Most Valuable Player, a 10-time All-Star and a five-time Gold Glove Award winner. He is widely regarded as one of the best second basemen in baseball history and also gained renown for his 25-plus years as a broadcaster after his playing career.....

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/3010...an-dies-77

(September 19, 1943 – October 11, 2020)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Morgan

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Joe Morgan was also an announcer with hall-of-fame broadcaster Jon Miller for the SF Giants (also both working together on ESPN I think), and also played for them.

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Fred Dean.   NFL Hall-of-Fame defensive end[/url]:

Frederick Rudolph Dean (February 24, 1952 – October 14, 2020)[1] was an American professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL), and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. His career started with the San Diego Chargers in 1975 and ended with the San Francisco 49ers after the 1985 season. A two-time first-team All-Pro and a four-time Pro Bowler, he won two Super Bowls with the 49ers.

San Diego Chargers


Dean was drafted by the Chargers in the 2nd round (33rd overall pick) 1975 NFL Draft. Dean recorded 15½ sacks in 1978.[2] In 1979, the Chargers won the AFC West division while leading the AFC in fewest points allowed (246) and Dean was named to the All-AFC team. The Chargers again won the AFC West in 1980, with Dean teaming with fellow 1975 Charger draftees Gary "Big Hands" Johnson and Louie Kelcher as the Chargers led the NFL in sacks (60).[3][4] Dean had missed the first two games of the season after not reporting, but still finished the season with 10½ sacks.[5] He and Johnson were named first-team All-Pro, with Kelcher being named second-team All-Pro. The trio, along with Leroy Jones formed a defensive front that was nicknamed the Bruise Brothers.[3][4]

San Francisco 49ers

In 1981, Dean, was traded to the San Francisco 49ers due to a contract dispute with Chargers' ownership.[6] Dean contended that he was making the same amount of money as his brother-in-law who was a truck driver.[7] The Chargers' defense would not be the same afterwards, and Don "Air" Coryell's Chargers teams are now most remembered for its high-scoring, pass-oriented offense that did not have enough defense to make it to a Super Bowl. In 2013, U-T San Diego called the Chargers trading Dean "perhaps the biggest blunder in franchise history".[8]
Dean was acquired mid-season by the 49ers and eventually helped them win two Super Bowls in the 1980s. His first game as a 49er was a key match-up against the Dallas Cowboys. Dean played after only a couple of practices and was still able to apply pressure and repeatedly hurried Danny White when he was not recording one of his 6 sacks, in a game won by the 49ers, 45-14. His first action of the season as a 49er was noted by author Tom Danyluk as "the greatest set of downs I have ever seen unleashed by a pass rusher".[9] In what had been a game of possum, Bill Walsh, the 49er head coach, said to John Madden, who covered the game, "Fred (Dean) just got here . . . If he plays, he won't play much".[10] But he played the whole game.[11]

His next home game for the 49ers was against the Los Angeles Rams. The game was won by the 49ers, and was the first win against the Rams in Candlestick Park, 20-17, as Dean sacked Pat Haden 5 times. He ended the season with 13 sacks, 12 with the 49ers and 1 with the Chargers before his trade to San Francisco.

The 49ers went on to win the Super Bowl that year, and Steve Sabol (NFL Films) is quoted in 2006 as saying that Dean's acquisition was the last meaningful in-season trade, in that it affected the destination of the Lombardi Trophy.[12] Dean that year won UPI NFC Defensive Player of the Year while playing in 11 games for the 49ers. San Diego's defense collapsed when Dean departed, giving up 40 points in a loss to the Cincinnati Bengals in the regular season, and 65 total points in playoff games vs. the Miami Dolphins and Bengals.

Fred Dean uniform at the Pro Football Hall of Fame

"I can't say how much it affected us, because we did make it to the AFC championship game," said Johnson of the Chargers without Dean. "But I could say if we had more pass rush from the corner, it might've been different.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Dean#cite_note-13][13]
In 1983, Dean recorded 17 sacks to lead the NFC and recorded a then-NFL record of 6 in one game, setting that mark during the 49ers’ 27-0 shutout of the New Orleans Saints on November 13, 1983. The 17 sacks was a Dean career high, bettering his 1978 total of 15½ with the Chargers.[14] He followed that 1978 season by adding nine sacks in 1979 and 10½ in 1980. He had recorded 6½ sacks as a rookie in 1975. Dean's career sack total, with his unofficial numbers included, is 93.[15]

Dean was also a key player on the 49ers 1984 Super Bowl team, mostly used as a situational pass rusher. During the 1984 season, Dean was reunited with his Charger teammates, Johnson, Kelcher and Billy Shields.[16]

Dean was inducted into the Louisiana Tech University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990. Dean is a member of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. On August 2, 2008, Dean was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[17] He was inducted at the enshrinement ceremony where his bust, sculpted by Scott Myers, was unveiled.[18][19][20] In 2009, Dean was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

On October 14, 2020, Dean died of complications of COVID-19.[1]