Baseball

Baseball Kids Larry King Shawn Southwick

LARRY KING’S STRAPPING SONS: DADDY’S RICH AND MOM’S GOODLOOKING

It’s a good thing Larry King, 84, has such an attractive wife (Shawn, 58) because his sons inherited a lot of her good looks. Shawn is Larry’s seventh wife and despite a few bumps in the road, they’ve managed to stay married since 1997. Incredibly, BOTH brothers (Cannon, 20, on the left, and Chance, 21, right) are amazing baseball players and they were both drafted into major league baseball by the White Socks while in high school. To their credit, they both passed up the opportunity and chose to go to college instead.

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By Janet / August 22, 2018
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Baseball Chance King Larry King Shawn Southwick

LARRY KING’S SON CHANCE WAS DRAFTED BY THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX

Larry King, 83, is super-proud of his son Chance, 20, who was recently drafted by the Chicago White Sox baseball team. 6’2” Chance towers over his father. (Larry’s younger son Cannon, 18, is also a baseball player.) Chance attended IMG Academy, a sport training prep school in Florida and swears he will go to college in spite of the draft. Chance’s mother is tall and beautiful Shawn Southwick – Larry’s eighth and current marriage. We suspect the boys inherited their athleticism from Shawn. Ironically, Shawn was accused of having an affair with her sons’ baseball coach seven years ago and she and Larry nearly divorced, but changed their minds. That guy must have been QUITE a coach, in more ways than one!

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By Janet / August 9, 2017
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Baseball Bruce Willis Burbank Bar and Grille

BRUCE WILLIS: GET RID OF THAT BASEBALL CAP!

California restaurants are notoriously slack about dress codes, so we were gratified to hear that the Burbank Bar & Grille sticks to their guns. The Grille refuses to admit customers wearing “athletic gear, flip flops, or baseball caps.“ Fine with us. We despise baseball caps on grown men! Bruce Willis figured the rules wouldn’t apply to HIS baseball cap when he walked in recently, but he was WRONG. The host asked him to please remove his cap and he refused. Imagine Bruce’s surprise when he was turned away!

By Janet / July 24, 2012
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Baseball Football Michael Jackson Paris Jackson

PARIS JACKSON IS PLAYING THE FIELD



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Paris Jackson never ceases to amaze us. Not only is she the only girl playing on her school’s football team, but she’s on the baseball team ALSO. And she’s gotten parts in two movies! She’s lost weight and she’s growing up to be a pretty, strong, athletic girl. Sad to say, it simply wouldn’t have happened if her father Michael Jackson were still alive. She’d be under a veil.

By Janet / January 19, 2012
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Baseball Billy Crystal Lou Gehrig Memorabilia Mickey Mantle Money Penny Marshall Sports

BILLY CRYSTAL AND PENNY MARSHALL WERE DUPED BY SPORTS COLLECTIBLE DEALER

A top collector of baseball memorabilia in New York has been exposed as a fraud and he cheated sports crazed celebrities out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Six years after Barry Halper’s death, it turns out he was a con man who sold replicas and forged autographs as one-of-a-kind gems. Among those burned are sports fanatic Billy Crystal, who paid $239,000 for “Mickey Mantle’s 1960 glove” and Penny Marshall, who paid $387,500 for “the last glove Lou Gehrig used in 1939.” Both were judged to be fake. We imagine these items were framed and displayed on the walls of their homes with considerable pride.

By Janet / July 25, 2011
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