When I started The Grandstander, I had no intention of turning it into, as one reader once called it, the Obituary Blog, but I have found over these last eight years that coming across the deaths of famous, infamous, and sometimes just plain interesting and/or oddball folks is just fascinating, and I get enough feedback that I think you folks out there sitting in the Grandstand get a kick out of it, too.
So, with a tip of the hat to the late, great sportswriter Red Smith, who coined the term "Absent Friends" when writing of the departed, a final salute to the 42 Absent Friends recognized by The Grandstander in 2017. If you want to see what I wrote, simply type the person's name in the search box in the upper left had corner of this page to take you to that original post.
Gene Cernan
Tommy Allsup
Mary Tyler Moore
Mike Conners
Barbara Hale
Thomas Starzl
Robert Osborne
Dakota James
Chuck Berry
Jimmy Breslin
Dan Rooney
Fran Deford
Adam West
Glenne Headley
Stephen Furst
David Vincent
Hootie Johnson
Babe Perilli
Martin Landau
George Romero
Sam Shepard
Jeanne Moreau
Ara Parseghian
Joseph Bologna
Barbara Cook
Glen Campbell
Joe Solomon
Don Baylor
Jerry Lewis
Frank Vincent
Penny Chenery
Hugh Hefner
Monty Hall
Tom Petty
Connie Hawkins
Jimmy Beaumont
Roy Halladay
Dr. Ferdie Pacheco
Christine Keeler
Sue Grafton
Stan Terlecki
Rose Marie
What a line-up! RIP to all.
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