Our buddy George Michael has passed away

[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.

[chris6net]

George You will be missed. Condolences to your family 70 years old is to young these days but I know you got your moneys worth. CN

[ethicsprof]

my deepest sympathy to family and friends

barry

[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