Longtime St Louis Cardinals trainer Dave Ricketts, who played on 1967 World Series championship team, died immediate Sunday.
Longtime St Louis Cardinals tutor Dave Ricketts, who played on their 1967 World Series championship team, died prompt Sunday. He was 73.
Ricketts’ household informed the Cardinals, who were playing in Pittsburgh, of his death. He had been battling sarcoma and living in St. Louis.
Ricketts was a reserve catcher, who meagerly for the Cardinals in 1963, ‘65 and ‘67-69. He was to the Pirates in 1970, his last time in the majors. He played 130 major league games and hit .249 with one home run.
He became a instructor for the Pirates in 1971. He had two as a Cardinals teacher, first from 1974-75, then from 1978-91. He was also a insignificant league teacher for the team.
“Sometimes the word immense is commonplace, and it’s a indignity,” Cardinals administrator Tony La Russa said before St. Louis the Pirates. “There have been some honestly large Cardinals that have come through our organization, but I don’t know anybody who was as extreme or more beloved than Dave Ricketts. I put him in the George Kissell class, or Red Schoendienst, as far as … the affection that they (people in the organization) feel for him.”
Ricketts college basketball at Duquesne, averaging 17.9 and shooting 86.2 from the free blanket line in 1956-57. As a , he played on Duquesne’s 1955 NIT championship team.
His associate, Dick Ricketts, also played and basketball. He for a short time for the Cardinals and seasons in the NBA. He died in 1988.