Plus, He Was Great To Have When You Played Strat-O-Matic

Dead: Harmon Killebrew, after his recent announcement that he was giving up the fight against cancer and going to hospice to face death. If he'd played in higher-profile markets than Washington and Minneapolis-St. Paul (and, at the end, Kansas City), he'd have been even bigger, but he was pretty awesome as it was, 573 home runs, a feared presence in any lineup. And there's a reason that one of the roads by the Mall of America, built on the site of Metropolitan Stadium, is named after him. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

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