In Reply to: RIP Roman Gabriel * posted by TheHappyBurgermeister on April 21, 2024 at 13:29:39
Wow, that's sad. I was never much of a hero-worshiper, but I had 3 pro athletes that came the closest to being my childhood sports heroes: Jerry West (same first name, even though he spelled it wrong), Sandy Koufax, and Roman Gabriel.
It was quite a number of years later that I found out that his name wasn't pronounced "roe-mun gay-bree-ul" but rather "roe-MAHN gah-bree-EL." :-D