Tootin' the Horn

Somewhere up in Heaven, Ron Santo is doing this:

Finally the Baseball Hall of Fame gets it right:

Oh, yesssssss! The guy who immortalized the “oh, nooooo’’ call when Brant Brown dropped that fly ball is heading to the Hall of Fame.

Ron Santo is joining Cub teammates Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Fergie Jenkins in baseball’s Hall of Fame. He was elected by the Veteran’s Committee in so-called Golden Era (1947-72) balloting announced Monday morning.

The vote came almost a year to the day he died, and in a way it's too little, too late.

In Memorium

Fess Parker, one of my childhood heroes, not once, but twice over, has passed away. If you are of my generation, you knew the words to both these theme songs by heart, and you cried your eyes out to the third:

Yeah. You try not to get a little nostalgic.