R.I.P. Celebrities(Non Wrestlers) 2022

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Tiffany Jackson, a former forward in the WNBA, passed away due to complications caused by breast cancer. Ms. Jackson was 37 years old.

Jackson played Collegiatley at the University of Texas, where she starred. In 2007 she entered the WNBA Draft where she was selected in the 1st round as the 5th pick overall by the New York Liberty. She played with the following teams during her WNBA career:

2007–2010 New York Liberty
2010–2011, Tulsa Shock
2013–2015 Tulsa Shock
2017 Los Angeles Sparks

In 2015 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and returned to court after the cancer went into remission. She retired from pro basketball in 2018 and became an assistant coach for her alma mater, the University of Texas.

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Marv Staehle, a former 2nd baseman in MLB, passed away at the age of 80.

He played for the following teams during his MLB career: the Chicago White Sox (1964–1967), Montreal Expos (1969–1970) and the Atlanta Braves (1971) . The following is an excerpt from Staehle's online obituary:Marv was raised in Oak Park, IL and was a professional baseball player for the Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos, and Atlanta Braves. After baseball, Marv was a State Farm Agent in Buffalo Grove.

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Eleanor Moore-Warner, a former pitcher who played from 1950 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, passed away at the age of 88.

A hard-throwing hurler, Eleanor Moore played with four different teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the final five years of its existence. It was during this time period that overhand pitching and smaller ball sizes were adopted, which benefited hitters but was detrimental to a pitcher's success. By the time her final season ended, in 1954, Moore had fashioned a 49–46 pitching record (.516) with a 2.74 earned run average, including a no-hitter, an All-Star Team selection, and the lead for the most wins in a single-season.

Moore started her career in 1950 with the Chicago Colleens, a touring player development team, since she was only 17 years old and needed more skill development. She improved vastly and was promoted to the Kalamazoo Lassies in 1951, playing for them for part of that season before joining the Fort Wayne Daisies (1951–1952) and the Grand Rapids Chicks (1952–1954). But not only Moore was a solid pitcher, but she also often helped her own cause with the bat. In her rookie year, she hit two home runs in a game against the Springfield Sallies, but the Colleens lost 14–3. She also scored the third run in a lost cause. Eventually, she played at first base and hit a career-high .265 batting average.

In 1953 Moore won a career-high 17 games for Grand Rapids, tying for top in wins with Jean Faut of the South Bend Blue Sox. The Chicks made the trip to the playoffs and defeated the Rockford Peaches in the first round, two to one games, then beat Fort Wayne in three games to clinch the championship title. In addition, Moore was selected for her first and only All-Star Team.

During what turned out to be the league's final season, Moore hurled a no-hitter and pitched 21 complete games for the Grand Rapids, who finished 46–45. Her performance was quite respectable, considering nineteen players hit at least .300. Joanne Weaver of Fort Wayne paced all hitters with a remarkable .429 average and 29 home runs, to set best-ever marks in AAGPBL history. Jean Geissinger, another Fort Wayne slugger, batted .377 with 26 home runs and a league-high 91 runs batted in, while her teammate Betty Foss hit .352 with 14 home runs and 54 RBI and South Bend's Wilma Briggs posted an even .300 with 25 home runs and 73 RBI.

Moore is part of AAGPBL's permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which opened in 1988 in honor of the entire league rather than individual baseball personalities. She is a longtime resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Tommy Boggs, a former MLB pitcher, passed away at the age of 66 due to cancer complications and pneumonia.

This was announced in several social media posts by friends and family. Boggs was the second overall pick in the 1974 Major League Baseball Draft, drafted out of Lanier High School in Austin, Texas by the Texas Rangers. He started his major league career with the Rangers, and ended it with them as well. In between, he pitched six seasons with the Atlanta Braves. He was traded along with Adrian Devine and Eddie Miller from the Rangers to the Braves in the first four-team blockbuster deal in Major League Baseball history on December 8, 1977 that also involved the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets and a total of eleven players changing teams. The Rangers received Al Oliver and Nelson Norman from the Pirates and Jon Matlack from the Mets. The Pirates acquired Bert Blyleven from the Rangers and John Milner from the Mets. The Mets got from the Braves Willie Montañez and from the Rangers Tom Grieve and Ken Henderson who were sent to New York to complete the transaction three months later on March 15, 1978. Over a span of 9 MLB seasons Boggs appeared in 114 games for the Braves and the Rangers. He pitched for the following clubs during his career, the Texas Rangers (1976–1977), the Atlanta Braves (1978–1983) and again with the Texas Rangers (1985). During his career, he had 20 wins with an ERA of 4.22.

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Judy Tenuta, brash ‘Goddess of Love’ comedian, dies at 72

[TTX]

sad. RIP Judy.

[throwingtoasters]

I worked with Judy a few times in my comedy days. She was fantastic. A true loss.

[jimsteel]

Dave Dryden, a former WHA and NHL goalie, passed away at the age of 81.

He played in the National Hockey League between 1962 and 1979 with the New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Buffalo Sabres, and Edmonton Oilers, and in the World Hockey Association between 1974 and 1979 with the Chicago Cougars and Edmonton Oilers. Dryden has the distinction of creating (as well as being the first goaltender to employ) a modern day goaltending mask consisting of a fiberglass mask with a cage. Dryden's best years came in the WHA, while playing for the Oilers. When the Oilers joined the NHL for the 1979–80 NHL season, Dryden had set the record for most games played (197) and most wins (94) by any goaltender while a WHA Oiler. He was the goalie against whom Wayne Gretzky scored his first professional goal. In 1979, he won the Ben Hatskin Trophy as the WHA's top goaltender, and the Gordie Howe Trophy as league MVP. In 1977, Dryden designed the first mask-cage combination goalie mask; maskmaker Greg Harrison transferred his design drawings into a final product which Dryden wore for the Oilers. The mask is on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. The mask-cage combination goalie mask is now the norm in modern hockey. He was the brother of Ken Dryden.

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A GREAT DEATH




Serial killer Peter Tobin killed more than the three women he was convicted of murdering as he dies of cancer in jail aged 76

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Julian Hammond, a player in the American Basketball Association, passed away at the age of 79.

A 6'5" forward, Hammond played at the University of Tulsa during the mid-1960s. He was among the first group of black basketball players at Tulsa. During the 1965–66 season, he led the NCAA in field goal percentage by making 65.9 percent of his shot attempts.
After college, he was originally drafted in the 9th round of the 1966 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. Hammond was then signed to a contract with the ABA's Denver Rockets, where he played from 1967 to 1972. He averaged 10.8 points and 6.2 rebounds per game.