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RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

G-Fafif Jan 19 2021 02:33 PM

The Hall of Fame righty who won 300+ games dies at 75.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 19 2021 02:37 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

You must be well-connected. Did the Sutton family contact you first? Because I can't find a single news article on this event.

G-Fafif Jan 19 2021 02:39 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

https://twitter.com/lifeisgreatsut/status/1351640873377779715?s=21

Benjamin Grimm Jan 19 2021 03:02 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

Hall of Famers are dying in droves lately.

MFS62 Jan 19 2021 03:13 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

I mostly remember the curly hair flowing from under his cap. RIP One LA player I didn't dislike (too much). Later

Frayed Knot Jan 19 2021 03:31 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

Turned into a reasonably good announcer too after his playing days were up. Did Braves games for a while then seemed to float around after that. No frills, but solid.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 19 2021 03:54 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

Traded for Tom Seaver once but it turned out to be fake News. http://www.beta.mbtn.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/clipping_68044980-pdf-724x1024.jpg>

batmagadanleadoff Jan 19 2021 04:00 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Traded for Tom Seaver once but it turned out to be fake News. http://www.beta.mbtn.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/clipping_68044980-pdf-724x1024.jpg> Too bad. The Mets would've been better off with Sutton than with Flynn, et. al. Not that it would've made a meaningful difference given how dreadful the post Seaver-to-the-Reds Joel Youngblood Mets were.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 19 2021 04:08 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

This fake deal was spring 76 and planted as Mets' leverage to get Seaver to agree to a new contract. Word was it Sutton and either Joe Furguson or John Hale, reserve outfielder and .214 career hitter for Sutton. Sutton also required re-signing and as the above article mentions had the right to veto.

seawolf17 Jan 19 2021 04:19 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

Sutton is one of those guys like Fergie Jenkins, Yaz, Rusty, and heck, even Koosman and Seaver that I first remember being *really old* when I discovered baseball in the early 80s, and only after some time realized how good they really were.

Edgy MD Jan 19 2021 04:33 PM Re: RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

Yeah I was watching before then and the two periods of his career that I recall are the gray-haired period and the white-haired period. I know there was a brown time before that, but he sure lasted a while as an old guy. I tend to think that old-guy hair of his helped lead to the foot-dragging on inducting him.