There is an article in the Philly paper titled "Risk with Young isn't just attitude". On the inside, the continuation headline is "Young's issues aren't limited".

Sums up my feelings about the transaction.

Over the last two years, Greg Luzinski has been better at baseball than Delmon Young.

Delmon's giving the Bull a run at the barbecue, though.

Delmon Yount. Just because.

Delmon Yount. Just because.

For the sake of curiosity, did you find him when typoing "Delmon Young" into BRef?

Delmon Yount. Just because.

It's amazing what Google can tell you. Delmon Yount passed away in 2009. He got married in 1946 to Helen Statler. The story mentions details of the wedding and his education, also that Yount spent three years in the military during the war, two of them overseas. This probably would have been 1943-46, so age 23 to 25 -- there goes the chance at a baseball career, though after the wedding he was going to play ball in Springfield, Illinois. I'm presuming this is the Delmon Yount who won a Silver Star while serving with the 4th Armored Division. In 1940 he lived with his parents and three brothers in St. Francois, Missouri. I assume this is just St. Francois County. He died in Park Hills, in St. Francois County. He'd lived there for at least 35 years. That fairly creepy page tells us that he subscribed to a pretty average set of magazines.

Delmon and Helen had one kid (there is some spelling confusion here) and three grandchildren. Helen has a Facebook page with a picture of her holding a grandchild (I'm not going to link to it). She spent 32 years as a teacher.

Of course, a tiny bit more sleuthing brings up Delmon's obituary, which tells us much of the above plus a little more. He was a also a teacher, he was a Methodist, he won the Croix de Guerre and a Purple Heart as well as the Silver Star, and he was probably a diabetic, though maybe he just had a loved one who is or was a diabetic.

So -- a ballplayer, a war hero, a husband, a teacher, a grandfather, and he lived to be 88. Google doesn't tell us how he felt about all of this, but from the outside that looks like a hell of a life.

Terrific job, Fern! (But...did Yount ever see Young play?)

It's amazing what Google can tell you.

Holy cow. I'm actually quite impressed by this. Very nice work...