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Athletes Who Died in January 2008

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  • Jan 2 Gerry Staley, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1952-53, 60; St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox), dies of natural causes at 87
  • Jan 3 Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (Lineal & WBC light flyweight titles 1999-2002), dies of brain damage after fight at 35
  • Jan 5 Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (b. 1975)
  • Jan 8 George Moore, Australian jockey (Epsom Derby 1967, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 1959, Prix du Jockey Club 1960, Irish 1000 Guineas 1959, 5 x Doomben 10,000, 3 x Sydney Cup), dies at 84
  • Jan 10 Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)

Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)

Jan 11 New Zealand explorer and mountaineer who was 1st to scale Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay, dies from a heart attack at 88

Edmund Hillary
  • Jan 13 Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)

Bobby Fischer (1943-2008)

Jan 17 American chess player (world champion 1972-75), dies of renal failure at 64

Bobby Fischer
  • Jan 17 Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
  • Jan 18 Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman (co-owner Cleveland/Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams 1979–2008), dies at 80
  • Jan 19 Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)


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