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Friday, September 16, 2011
Former LSU baseball player Terry Belle, twin brother of former Tiger Albert “Joey” [Belle] died in a car accident last Saturday in Paradise Valley, Ariz.
Belle, 45, earned three letters from 1985-88 and played on LSU’s first two College World Series teams. He batted .276 in 135 career games with 11 homers and 65 RBI.
Belle’s two children were in the car with him at the time of the accident, but were apparently unharmed. RIP.
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1. Russ Posted: September 16, 2011 at 10:47 AM (#3926719)Of course, any fatality story in my old newspaper in Little Rock (employer of at least one fellow Primate even as I type) would have omitted that detail, per the insane executive editor's order, who considered it propaganda. Something to do with his being a libertarian (but, having noted he was insane, I repeat myself), which also manifested itself in his insistence that all prisoner executions go on page 3B, including the nation's first triple execution in some 5 decades.
(I was night city editor for that fiasco, so I've never gotten over it. I'll be very, very disappointed in myself if I ever do. The executions were considered newsworthy enough for me to be interviewed [via phone, of course] about them on Australian ####### radio, for godssakes.)
RIP.
Isn't it a bit odd that you have a set of twins, where one is a HoF caliber talent, and the other never played affiliated ball?
it points out two things:
1. the fact that identical twins are not truly 'identical'
2. at the MLB level incremental differences in talent are in high relief.
I read somewhere that both he and Albert graduated top 10 in their HS class (like, 5 and 6). Impressive if true.
I believe Albert graduated with an Accounting degree from LSU and was an Eagle Scout. Sometimes I think he was treated unfairly by the media. Kind of like Milton Bradley.
I don't remember the rep on Albert ever being that he was a dumb guy. The rep on him was that he was a jerk.
Being a smart guy with good grades and a degree doesn't mean it is unfair for the media to point it out when you're being a jerk.
In fairness, the Eagle Scout thing would tend to contradict that somewhat.
The Immoral Eric Enders wrote a piece about Belle a few years back that's somewhat relevant here. I don't think he's as good a guy as Eric does, but neither do I think he's the cartoon supervillain he's often portrayed as being in the media. Real people are more complicated than that.
oops. but my point still holds when you look at the cansecos and roushes.
On the other hand, the stalking of his ex does confirm that Belle is in fact a jerk.
Did Ozzie C. do the same drugs as Jose? Seriously, there's a difference maker.
True. My focus was on how neat it would be to be the parent of two really really good students like that.
Lenny Dykstra is doing his damnedest to disprove that.
I believe Albert graduated with an Accounting degree from LSU and was an Eagle Scout. Sometimes I think he was treated unfairly by the media. Kind of like Milton Bradley.
Not that I think Bradley was treated completely fairly by the press, but it seems like his defenders here always want to forget the domestic violence allegations against him.
Did Ozzie C. do the same drugs as Jose? Seriously, there's a difference maker.
According to Jose, yes he did.
Of course, Jose neglects to mention the fact that his brother was raised as a pitcher, and wasn't converted into a full-time position player until he was a 21-year-old in A-ball. If Ozzie had focused on hitting all his life like Jose did, he might have had a more successful MLB career.
They weren't kids; they were legal adults. That doesn't mean it is okay to use the fender of your SUV to pin them to a garage door until the cops arrive, but they were dumbasses over the age of 18.
Crap, looks like I've been doing it wrong.
Edd Roush had a twin brother (dunno if they were identical) who played in the minors.
Don't know if they qualify as well-known, but there were the O'Brien twins, Eddie and Johnny. College basketball stars, and then directly to the majors (if you could call the 1953 Pirates the majors).
And Eddie was a fairly prominent character in Ball Four.
The greatest trick Steve Garvey was convincing Jose is The Special Seabiscuit believe that he didn't exist.
Interesting. Do you recall, was Jose making a point, or was he merely ruminating?
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