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Kirby Puckett Dead at 44

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I am sure everyone has heard that Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins has passed away. Kirby was one of my childhood heros growing up. I used to listen to all the Minnesota Twins games on WCCO radio when I was a kid. I can remember listning everytime he came to bat and you just knew he was gonna smack one to win the game.
He once told at an autograph signing that to "go for your dreams and never give up" I did just that! and I am not doing to bad in my life right now. Sorry! for it being an OFF TOPIC and nothing to do with Star wars or any movie but when you step back and look at it all from my piont of view it was one heck of a childhood ride I will nver forget.
If there is anyone else out there that saw him play then they will know for sure what I am talking about. I once made a video where I was pretending to be him and my friend was the Twins announcer Bob Casey saying KIrbeeee Pucket!!

Just thought I would share this with all my friends at Originaltrilogy.com. It makes you step back and realize how important life is and how important capturing the past and to never forget things are. That being said, let's keep up all the restoring and preservation of the art that we love becasue if we don't it will be gone.

Thanks for your time and say a prayer if your a believer.

Mitch

Remember, Highlander, you’ve both still got your full measure of life. Use it well, and your future will be glorious.

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yeah but he was not dead yet, now he is
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Mitch, no need to apologize. Hence why this is off topic.

Zion, not completely blind, but he did lose a vast majority of his eyesight.

I remember hearing about Kirby going to an opposing stadium and the team had traveled in a bus. He started signing autographs when he arrived but had to pull himself away after nearly an hour. He told the fans to meet him back out here after the game and he would sign some more. The fans showed up, but the bus began to pull away. It stopped and Kirby got out and signed for another hour and a half. That's class.

I loved Kirby Puckett. He's a Chicago boy and, despite playing for the Twins, was always a favorite athlete in town. There are very few athletes in pro sports from other teams that have this level of reverence in Chicago if they didn't play for one of our teams. Not even Donovan McNabb who is also Chicago born and bred. I still have one of Puckett's rookie cards at home as well. He's the reason I regularly wear a Twins cap as well.

R.I.P. Kirbs.
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Originally posted by: zion
Didn't he go blind? If I remember right, I went to a Rockies game against the Twins a long time ago and Kirby was supposed to play, only he didn't play that day because he couldn't see and he never played again.
He went blind in one eye as the result of glocoma (sp?).

I remember that very well because his trouble might have started when he got hit on the head by a pitch in a game against the Cleveland Indians. It was Dennis Martinez pitching.