During this past calendar year of 2023, the Major League Baseball community lost several important figures. Among their number were 108 men who at one time or another pulled on a uniform and took the field with a big-league club, including one of the greatest Hall of Fame players of all-time.
Prime Time: The dual threat of Deion Sanders
When the Super Bowl kicks off tomorrow, there will be a team from Philadelphia competing for the championship, just as there was with the World Series three months ago. But no player from that 2022 Fall Classic will pull on the pads. That has only been done by one player — by “Prime Time,” Deion Sanders
RIP Curt Simmons: Who are oldest living Phillies?
Simmons had been the seventh-oldest living former Phillies player. There are now 16 former Phillies players age 90 and above.
MATT VEASEY 