RIP John Updike

The Good Doctor · Jan 27, 2009

CNN is reporting he died this morning of lung cancer.

Zombie Vonnegut · Jan 27, 2009

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/09/26/hub_fans_bid_kid_adieu/

jps · Jan 27, 2009

wow.

cranberry · Jan 27, 2009

Tell your mother, if she asks, that maybe we'll meet some other time. Under the pear trees, in Paradise."

-- Updike from Rabbit in Rest

ServeItUp · Jan 27, 2009

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090127/ap_en_ot/obit_updike

Rest in piece, and say hi to Teddy Ballgame for us.

Double Down · Jan 27, 2009

This is one of the truly great paragraphs in the history of sports writing.

Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs - hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn't tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted "We want Ted" for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters.
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Simon_Cowbell · Jan 27, 2009

Double Down said:

This is one of the truly great paragraphs in the history of sports writing.

Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs - hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn't tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted "We want Ted" for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters.
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chills

zeke12 · Jan 27, 2009

Double Down said:

This is one of the truly great paragraphs in the history of sports writing.

Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs - hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn't tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted "We want Ted" for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters.
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Was just about to post that, DD. Thanks for doing it. I believe that's from Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu.

RIP to a legend.

kokane_muthashed · Jan 27, 2009

Damn, this really sucks.

Double Down · Jan 27, 2009

Zeke12 said:

Double Down said:

This is one of the truly great paragraphs in the history of sports writing.

Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs - hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn't tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted "We want Ted" for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters.
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Was just about to post that, DD. Thanks for doing it. I believe that's from Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu.

RIP to a legend.
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The Reanimated Mr. Vonnegut has posted the entire story in the link above. I thought it was an obit at first, but was delighted to see it was Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. If there is any writer, young or old, who has never read it, they should do so now. Probably one of the five greatest pieces ever.

Fenian_Bastard · Jan 27, 2009

Good thing he wrote it because only about 2500 people actually saw it.

JR · Jan 27, 2009

Fenian_Bastard said:

Good thing he wrote it because only about 2500 people actually saw it.
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I wonder if it made Sportscenter's Top Ten

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