Goodbye to Tommy Reamon at the age of 73.
A ninth-round selection by Pittsburgh in the 1974 NFL Draft from Missouri, Reamon instead signed with the WFL's Florida Blazers, and in the only full season of the WFL, Reamon rushed for over 1,500 yards and scored fifteen touchdowns.
Reamon was one of the three 1974 WFL MVPs (Southern California quarterback Tony Adams and Memphis running back J.J. Jennings were the others) and played for the Jacksonville Express in 1975 when the league went bankrupt in mid-season.
Reamon would play for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1976 and the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1977 before retiring to try acting wth a few small roles.
Reamon later became a successful high school coach in Newport News, Virginia, and coached future NFL quarterbacks Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks in his high school career.
Goodbye to Horace Speed at the age of 73.
Speed was a journeyman outfielder who spent three seasons with the Giants and Indians.
Speed would play in 113 games in his MLB career, batted only 160 times with an average of .207, and never hit a home run.
And for a player named Speed, he would finish his career with more times caught stealing (five) than stolen bases (four).
Goodbye to Jim Marshall at the age of 87.
A founding member of the feared "Purple People Eaters" of the Minnesota Vikings in the 1960s and 1970s, Marshall has become a player who has slipped between the cracks for Hall of Fame induction.
Marshall deserves it, but few of the voters have seen him play, and since he was a defensive end in the era before sacks were an official NFL stat, Marshall lacks the numbers to swing the voters.
Marshall played one season each for the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders and Cleveland Browns before a 1961 trade sent him to the expansion Minnesota Vikings, where he would play through the 1979 season.
Marshall played in 282 straight games and started 270 consecutive, both NFL records until broken (Jeff Feagles broke the former record and Brett Favre the latter), but many remember him for his 1964 fumble recovery when he grabbed a San Francisco fumble and ran into the wrong end zone for a safety.
Goodbye to Joe Don Baker at the age of 89.
The veteran actor came to fame with the starring role of "Buford Pusser" in the first of the "Walking Tall" series of films but I'll remember him best as "The Whammer", a character based on Babe Ruth, whom "Roy Hobbs" played by Robert Rediord strikes out in the start of the baseball film "The Natural" and as the bad guy in the Chevy Chase film "Fletch".
Assist to Fred Landucci for the passing of Joe Don Baker 🏀
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