Thursday, July 7, 2011

Wes Covington: 1932 - 2011


"People ask me 'Why haven't you gone back to Milwaukee?' 'Why haven't you done more in the game?' but it's nothing against the city or the great fans. I just had other things I wanted to do with my life. I didn't want to be a baseball bum, living in the past."

RIP

2 comments:

Commishbob said...

I did some research on Wes Covington earlier this year foe a blog post and found him to be an interesting guy. Kind of neat the things you learn checking into players you might never give a second thought to otherwise.

I wasn't aware of his passing until I saw your post. RIP, indeed

Contrary Guy said...

Feel the same way when I learn new stuff while searching for quotes for posts on players.

There really is a quite a bit out there "under the surface". You gotta go well beyond Wikipedia though.