Our buddy George Michael has passed away

[Rich Klein]

Allan Sniffen; webmaster of the WABC tribute site in New York has added a nice "radio-centric" tribute to Mr. Michael on his site.

http://www.musicradio77.com/index.html

There is a fee for this site; but if you are into old radio "air-checks"; this is a terrific site to listen to old school Top 40

http://www.reelradio.com/rf/gmwabc12...l#gmwabc121974

Regards
Rich

[Rob D.]

Last few weeks have been rough ones for our hobby.

[williamcohon]

George gave a wonderful presentation at the Cincinnati SABR convention, a few years ago. He had a monumental knowledge base, and was overflowing with energy and enthusiasm.

[scgaynor]

That is terrible, I really liked George. I spoke with him a few weeks ago, but have not seen him in a few years.

Scott

[Potomac Yank]

We've lost an Icon.

My warmest thoughts to the family, and friends.

[RichardSimon]

I was really saddened by this news. George had been a customer of mine, though in the past few years I had not been in touch with him. I always admired his tenacity in tracking down those "sliding into a base" photos and I would always contact him when I obtained some.
He will be missed and my condolences to his family.

[Jewish-collector]

He was a long time sportscaster here in Washington, DC on WRC Channel 4. The radio station WTEM 980 has been all day "Remembering George Michael".

[bmarlowe1]

George was one of the few people I have encountered who was really excellent at analyzing the content of early baseball images and his articles on that subject which appeared in SABR publications influenced me.

George was also aware of how messed up the photo ID's were in many well-known baseball history books, but he was just too nice a guy to call people out on it.

[KNH]

I used to watch his show at 11:30pm on I believe it was Sunday night. He did an excellent job and will sure be missed.

[Rich Klein]

[George was also aware of how messed up the photo ID's were in many well-known baseball history books, but he was just too nice a guy to call people out on it.[/QUOTE]

One of my favorite stories was when Marty Appel was writing his biography of King Kelly; he saw a photo of someone purported to be Kelly in the Ken Burns baseball series. He called up Burns' office and was told something to the effect that the person pictured looked like Kelly but we just used that because it was close enough and there weren't many photos of King Kelly available.

So it's not just in biographies but also in TV shows (and we once spent a very heated month on SABR-L discussing the Ken Burns series)

Regards
Rich