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In Memoriam

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Roger Craig, Dead at 93

Roger Craig pitched for three championship teams during his major league career and then managed the San Francisco Giants to the 1989 World Series. Craig was credited with teaching the split-finger fastball to Hall of Fame starter Jack Morris and 1986 NL Cy Young Award winner Mike Scott.
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Petr Klíma, Dead at 58

Petr Klima was the left winger who played in the NHL from 1981–2003, suiting up for the Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Los Angeles Kings, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. His Oilers won the Stanley Cup in 1990, and he scored the game-winning goal in the longest
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Gordon Lightfoot, Dead at 84

Gordon Lightfoot was the singer-songwriter best known for "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness", "Black Day in July", "(Remember Me) I'm the One", "If You Could Read My Mind", "Sundown"; "Carefree Highway", "Rainy Day People", and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and so
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Johnnie Walters, Dead at 90

I still remember walking Yonge Street and participating in a trivia contest hosted by CKCO-TV's Johnnie Walters. I still remember the larger than life laugh when I cracked a lame joke. That show Johnnie Walters was hosting was called Trivia Company, and he hosted it from 1984 to 1988. During
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Bobby Caldwell, Dead at 71

Bobby Caldwell is the singer best known for his signature song "What You Won't Do for Love" from his double platinum debut album Bobby Caldwell in 1978. Bobby Caldwell also wrote the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single "The Next Time I Fall" for Amy Grant and Peter Cetera.
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