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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION 2001 RATIFIED BILL RESOLUTION 2001-26 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 1456 SECTION 1. The General Assembly honors the memory of Wilver Dornell "Willie" Stargell and expresses the gratitude and appreciation of this State and its citizens for his life and the joy he brought to the game of baseball. SECTION 2. The General Assembly extends its deepest sympathy to the family of Wilver Dornell "Willie" Stargell for the loss of a beloved family member. SECTION 3. The Secretary of State shall transmit a certified copy of this resolution to the family of Wilver Dornell "Willie" Stargell. SECTION 4.

84. Futility Infielder • WALL OF FAME stargell passed away on the day the Pirates open their new ballpark, only While theirony may seem somewhat cruel, a baseball fan could Rest in peace, willie. http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wall_stargell.html

RECENT UPDATES Around the Bases BASEBALL PROSPECTUS: Hank Aaron's Home Cooking WALL OF FAME: Luis Sojo BASEBALL PROSPECTUS: ... BASEBALL PROSPECTUS: Class of 2004 Hitters and Pitchers Please contact me for any questions or comments regarding this site. W A L L O F F A M E April 9 , 2001 Willie Stargell, R.I.P. One of my true boyhood heroes, Willie Stargell, passed away early today, at 61. Among my fondest memories as a baseball fan was watc Stargell was one of the most feared sluggers in the game, but also one of the m A few years ago, when the Yankees made a trip to Montreal, during a slow moment of the MSG broadcast, announcer Ken Singleton told the story of that prodigious homer. The camera panned up to the seat, where two shaggy dudes, surrounded by a sea of empty seats, were conspicuously sharing a joint. "Talk about high!" sputtered Singleton. Stargell passed away on the day the Pirates open their new ballpark, only two days after they unveiled a 12-foot bronze statue of the man. While the irony may seem somewhat cruel, a baseball fan could justifiably look on his passing as a timely ascenscion to the best seat in the house, and a fitting reminder of his prominent place in one city's history. Rest in peace, Willie. Pittsburgh Pirates 1962-82 .282, 475 HR, 1540 RBI

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Pirates in the Hall of Fame Last Updated 26 January 2002 Some information is from the 1994 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Yearbook. The Links provided are to the Pirate Club Records and Pirate League Leaders. Players are listed in the order of the year in which they were inducted: Index: Wagner Clarke Chesbro Traynor ... Others This painting from the Pirates 1996 scorecard shows several of the famous Pirate players in the uniforms from their era. Honus Wagner: #33 Shortstop Born Feb 24, 1874 Died Dec 6 1955, both in Carnegie PA Ht: 5-11 Wt: 200 Threw and Batted Righthanded Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1936 Many considered him as baseball's greatest all-round player. Despite his awkward appearance, the Pirate's nonpareil SS was a sensational hitter, a brilliant base runner and a flawless fielder. Broke into the majors by hitting .344 in 1897 and enjoyed 17 consecutive .300 seasons, including 8 as the NL batting champion , compiling a lifetime average of .329. The Flying Dutchman also stole 720 bases and led the league in thefts on 6 occasions.

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Local Nation/World Columnists Obituaries ... Browse/Search [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] 'Pops' goes the statue COLDENHAM: For baseball fans, Willie Stargell has always seemed larger than life, but now he's literally 12 feet tall and 1,900 pounds. By Beth Quinn The Times Herald-Record bquinn@th-record.com After living with Willie Stargell for a year, it really does feel like "We Are Family" to the folks who work at Polich Art Works in Coldenham. And they're going to miss him when he leaves next Friday – all 12 feet, 1,900 pounds of the Pirates' great left-handed slugger. The bronze statue of Willie Stargell created at Polich's fine arts foundry will be going to Pittsburgh, where it will grace the entrance of the Pirates' new stadium, PNC Park, due to open next month. How he came to be created in the little Orange County hamlet along Route 17K, though, is a Herculean feat that rivals Stargell's own prowess at home plate. He began as an 18-inch clay sculpture by Pittsburgh artist Susan Wagner, who was commissioned by the Pirates' organization to create the statue. She chose an at-bat stance after studying hundreds of pictures of the .315 lifetime average hitter, who played for the Pirates from 1962 to 1982. He was affectionately known as "Pops" to the close-knit team that regarded itself a family.

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Goodbye, Mr. Stargell, Patriarch of Pirates © Claire Smith 2001 [Associated Press Photo] He could make those around him smile, while commanding their complete respect. Having covered major-league baseball for 19 years, the one absolute I know is that there are Hall of Fame people as opposed to Hall of Fame players. The former grace the game as much as the latter. And if you combine in one body both ingredients, you have something truly special. Willie Stargell was truly special. The phrase "larger than life" falls far short in describing the shadow cast across baseball by this gregarious gentle giant of a man, who died yesterday of a stroke. Not even the 12-foot statue of Stargell unveiled by the city of Pittsburgh on the eve of the opening of the Pirates' new stadium begins to tell the story. A truer measure of the man who was the loving patriarch of the legendary " We Are Fam-i-ly " Pirates teams of the 1970s was the tears that were guaranteed to be shed throughout the majors yesterday when the larger extended family learned it had lost Stargell far too soon, at age 61. "I tell you what, in the history of baseball, there is only one Pops," said Phil Niekro, a fellow Hall of Famer who choked back tears yesterday as he recalled the golden era of baseball when his Braves teams battled Stargell's Pirates.

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Wilver Dornel Stargell ON MONDAY APRIL 9, 2001, BASEBALL LOST ONE OF ITS MOST BELOVED AND CHARISMATIC SUPERSTARS TO EVER GRACE THE DIAMOND. THIS PAGE IS MY HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO "POPS" NUMBER 8. How ironic that Willie died on the very day that the Bucs opened PNC Park. A statue immortalizing Pops was dedicated there just two days before. As young children, we all had sports heroes we liked to imitate in our own neighborhood/backyard games. For me, that person was Willie Stargell. Unfortunately, I was too young to experience the other great "modern" Pirate, Roberto Clemente first hand, but I have very vivid memories of Pops and the late 70’s Buccos. There are even stronger memories of my (very poor) attempts to imitate that trademark twirling bat motion when we played our neighborhood wiffle ball games. More times than not, I was more concerned with whirling the bat than I was with actually hitting the ball. I never seemed to get the hang of EITHER one. Somewhere in my mother’s closets back home there are surely countless photographs of a skinny 8 year old kid wearing the unmistakably recognizable pillbox Pirate cap. Not having perfected my sewing skills at that age, I used to tape my own paper stars around the sides of my cap. (They would last all of about 5 minutes before the wind or other elements would take them back off). But I used to pretend that those stars came from the recommendation of Willie and that I was part of the "Fam-A-Lee."

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