Baseball great Kirby Puckett died Monday, one day after suffering a stroke at his Arizona home. He was 45. These are his numbers:
12 Seasons in Major League, all with Twins
2 Times he led his team to World Series Victories
10 Times he was an All-Star
3 Times he led league in hits
.318 Career batting average
6 Gold Gloves
2,304 Career number of hits
2001 Year inducted into Hall of Fame
To those who cheered for him, to those who appreciated him, it was his style, his grace, his competitive fire that will be his legacy.
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Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her “Superman” husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near-total paralysis, has died (late Monday night) of lung cancer at the age of 44.
Reeve had succeeded her husband as chair of the foundation, which funded research into spinal-cord paralysis cures. She announced in August that, while she wasn’t a smoker, she had been diagnosed with lung cancer.
“She was a woman with an incredible heart who really put herself out there to help people with disabilities and especially those who are caregivers – something she knew a lot about,” said Kathy Lewis, president of the Christopher Reeve Foundation.
A year ago, she won a Mother of the Year award from the American Cancer Society. A society vice president, Dr. Michael Thun, said Reeve “has shown strength and courage in the face of tremendous adversity.”
Four months ago, I attended a fundraising gala for the Christopher Reeve foundation. I had a chance to meet Dana. She was gracious and inspirational. She looked healthy in a long, formal gown and said she was responding well to treatment and her tumor was shrinking.
Rest in Peace, Kirby and Dana. Both of you have been a wonderful inspiration for millions of people. Thank you! 
I was always a fan of Puckett’s. I use to call him the little cannonball. He was something.
Regarding Dana Reeve, that was fast, too fast. What a shame that two people who had so much to offer, had to pass on at such a young age…
Susan, it must have been a delight to meet Dana and to experience what surely must be one of the most inspirational people of our time (man or woman).
I saw her in several interviews on television and was absolutely mesmerized by her grace and her elegance.
Rest in peace.
It is most sad indeed when the world loses someone who conducted themselves with much dignity & did so much for their fellow people. Rest in peace indeed.
No Man is an Island
No man is an island entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were;
every man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore, never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
By John Donne
The world is diminished today indeed!