Richie Ashburn’s Death – Cause and Date

The baseball player Richie Ashburn died at the age of 70. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Hall of Fame center fielder who was a 6-time All-Star and 2-time National League batting champion. He became a longtime sports broadcaster after retirement.

He married his girlfriend Herberta at the end of the 1948 season.

On September 9, 1997 in New York City, after broadcasting the Phillies-Mets game at Shea Stadium, Ashburn suffered a heart attack and died. A large crowd of fans paid tribute to him, passing by his casket in Memorial Hall, located in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park.

Quotes

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To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

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I wish I’d known early what I had to learn late.

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I’m flattered that so many baseball people think I’m a Hall of Famer. But what’s hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven’t had a base hit since then.