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RIP Ron Santo

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Ron Santo dead at 70

Chicago Cubs icon failed to reach Hall of Fame
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Ron Santo (left) and Billy Williams at the Cubs' spring training camp in 1971. (Tribune archive photo)

Legendary Chicago Cubs player and broadcaster Ron Santo died Thursday night in Arizona. He was 70.

Friends of Santo's family said the North Side icon lapsed into a coma on Wednesday before dying Thursday. Santo died of complications from bladder cancer, WGN-AM 720 reported.

The former Cubs third baseman had overcome several debilitating injuries, including the amputation of both legs, to continue to work as a Cubs analyst on WGN, the team's flagship radio broadcast. He was expected to return for the 2011 season.

Despite ongoing health problems, including a lifelong battle with diabetes, Santo never considered giving up his work alongside play-by-play man Pat Hughes. He missed several road trips in 2010 but insisted he would return.
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y0yoyoin;1826431; said:
was this guy on the radio or TV? because if its the guy for cubs radio that constantly bitches and groans and then cheers excitedly then this is indeed a very very sad day
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That would be him...

Did WGN radio with Pat Hughes for years... Ronnie loved his Cubs.
 
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OSUBucks22;1826441; said:
That would be him...

Did WGN radio with Pat Hughes for years... Ronnie loved his Cubs.
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ya this guy was awesome...im not a cubs fan but i enjoy listening to any baseball on XM radio if there is nothing else on while driving home or whatever...and i listened in one day to a cubs game in the bottom of the 9th inning when carlos marmol blew a save to tie the game up, and this Santo guy was just so pissed off, ive never heard anything like that on the radio...it sounded like he was about to trash the radio booth and i was convinced he was drunk...very entertaining
 
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y0yoyoin;1826443; said:
ya this guy was awesome...im not a cubs fan but i enjoy listening to any baseball on XM radio if there is nothing else on while driving home or whatever...and i listened in one day to a cubs game in the bottom of the 9th inning when carlos marmol blew a save to tie the game up, and this Santo guy was just so [censored]ed off, ive never heard anything like that on the radio...it sounded like he was about to trash the radio booth and i was convinced he was drunk...very entertaining
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Yeah, not drunk (he was a diabetic so he didn't drink), just the way he always was... I'd love hearing him call a game winning home run. You'd think he was having a coronary.

While I'm sad he never got to see (on earth) his life-long dream of being a HOF'er realized, I'm glad the Cubs honored him with his jersey retirement a few years ago...
 
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