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venturalakersfan
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 Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:57 pm Post subject: Let's play two |
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Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks has passed away. As a Cardinals fan, I was raised to dislike the Cubs, but as a baseball fan, Ernie was a great one. I got to meet him when I was in college, a group of us from my dorm floor went to Wrigley on a Saturday and sang the National Anthem before the game. Great ball player, great person.
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| RIP Banks. I think he was blinded in an episode of Married with Children |
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| Definitely an icon. I too had the good fortune to meet him several years ago when the Cubs were in town to play the Dodgers. We took my father-in-law (who was a life-long, die-hard Cubs fan from Illinois) to the Dugout Club seats. Ernie and another Cub legend, Ron Santo, came over to my father-in-law and they talked with us for several minutes prior to the game. They were both gracious and wonderful and my wife and I have always cherished that my father-in-law had that moment before he passed away. |
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"Let's play two."
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | Definitely an icon. I too had the good fortune to meet him several years ago when the Cubs were in town to play the Dodgers. We took my father-in-law (who was a life-long, die-hard Cubs fan from Illinois) to the Dugout Club seats. Ernie and another Cub legend, Ron Santo, came over to my father-in-law and they talked with us for several minutes prior to the game. They were both gracious and wonderful and my wife and I have always cherished that my father-in-law had that moment before he passed away. |
Didn't Ron pass away also? It is amazing that some of those Cub teams couldn't win a World Series. Wrigley for a World Series would be crazy.
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From what I recall, both Ron Santo and Ernie Banks were part of that ill-fated 1969 Cubs team that choked away a huge lead late in the season to the "Amazin' Mets."
Trivia: After losing the division title to the Mets, a couple of Chicago theaters played midnight showings of "Fail Safe." When NYC got nuked at the end, the audience cheered. |
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If I could make a wish come true I'd wish for the Cubs to win a WS while Ernie was still alive.
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | Definitely an icon. I too had the good fortune to meet him several years ago when the Cubs were in town to play the Dodgers. We took my father-in-law (who was a life-long, die-hard Cubs fan from Illinois) to the Dugout Club seats. Ernie and another Cub legend, Ron Santo, came over to my father-in-law and they talked with us for several minutes prior to the game. They were both gracious and wonderful and my wife and I have always cherished that my father-in-law had that moment before he passed away. |
Didn't Ron pass away also? It is amazing that some of those Cub teams couldn't win a World Series. Wrigley for a World Series would be crazy. |
Yeah, Ron passed away about 5 years ago. Wrigleyville would go insane for a World Series. Thought we were going to see that about 10 years ago, but sadly they choked. |
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As a Cardinals fan I have a special appreciation and respect for Ernie Banks. I also used to collect "old timers" baseball cards when I was a kid. Ernie Banks was one of my favorites. My Dad used to tell me what a player he was.
RIP Mr Banks |
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I grew up near the dividing line in Illinois between Cub land and Cardinal land, but I was on the Cardinal side. My cousins live about 45 miles away and were strong Cub fans. Sometimes it is hard for Cardinal fans to appreciate Cub players. But that era with Ernie, Ron Santo, even later with Rick Reuschel (the human whale) and even Ryan Sandberg, those Cub teams were hard to root against. But we managed. 
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| Quote: | Ernie Banks, the beloved Chicago Cubs great who once said he wanted to have his ashes scattered at Wrigley Field, is at the center of a battle over his remains as his estranged wife has gone to court to prevent a longtime friend of "Mr. Cub" from having his remains cremated.
The dispute involving most famous player in Cubs history, was confirmed Friday by Howard Golden, an attorney representing the estranged wife, Elizabeth Banks.
"Suddenly, it came up," he said. "It's unfortunate."
According to court records, Elizabeth Banks filed a petition to prevent a woman who describes herself in the documents as a longtime friend of Ernie Banks, his caretaker and the executor of Banks' estate from having him cremated. The woman, Regina Rice, asserted her rights to dispose of Banks' remains after his death last month at the age of 83, according to documents filed by Elizabeth Banks' attorneys on Feb. 2.
"Petitioner (Elizabeth Banks) is without recourse and shall suffer irreparable damage should Regina's desires to cremate the remains of the decedent be granted," she wrote.
Elizabeth Banks has successfully thus far prevented the body from being cremated, Golden said.
But it was unclear where exactly the body was taken. According to Golden, Banks is buried at Graceland Cemetery, just blocks from Wrigley Field. But a person who answered the phone at Graceland but declined to give her name said Banks is not buried there. And Dave Babczak, manager of Donnellan Funeral Home, which handled the logistics surrounding the Jan. 31 funeral service, declined to comment on the dispute, saying only that Banks' remains were no longer at the funeral home.
In court documents obtained by The Associated Press, there is no mention that Banks wanted his ashes scattered at the ballpark where he played his entire 19-year Hall of Fame career. But over the years, families of devoted fans have slipped into the ballpark to scatter the ashes of loved ones who spent their lives rooting for the Cubs and Banks, who on at least one occasion years ago, famously told a local newspaper reporter that after he died he wanted "my ashes spread out over Wrigley Field — with the wind blowing out."
The Cubs declined to comment on the dispute. Rice did not answer her phone and her attorney did not return calls for comment.
The documents are included in what is a larger dispute over control of the Banks estate.
Included in the file are documents in which Rice claims Banks was attempting to end his marriage to Elizabeth Banks, his fourth wife. The documents include a petition for divorce, signed by Ernie Banks, in which the Hall of Famer seeks to end his marriage because "irreconcilable differences have caused irretrievable breakdown of the marriage" and that Elizabeth Banks had "committed extreme and repeated acts of mental cruelty upon petitioner (Ernie Banks)."
A document titled "Last Will and Testament" and signed by Ernie Banks on Oct. 17 of last year says he was "in the process of finalizing divorce" from his wife and that he had appointed Rice as the executor of his will. Nowhere does Banks discuss what he wants done with his remains.
The dispute appears to be far from over. The attorney for Elizabeth Banks at one point disputes the validity of the will, saying only that it was "allegedly signed" by Ernie Banks. |
http://www.daytondailynews.com/ap/ap...-of-ern/nkBK8/ |
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