Immaculate Rickey

Seeing the reports that Rickey has passed away after a battle with pneumonia. This is so sad. He was the greatest ballplayer ever, and he loved playing baseball. His 66th birthday would have been this Christmas. I always remember that because he was born the same year as my mom.

Immaculate Grid 1276 4/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 Four Rickeys on today’s grid and one in today’s NYT crossword. (Oddly enough, identified as playing CF on the grid and LF in the crossword)

Immaculate Grid 1250 6/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 Two full columns of Rickey on today’s @immaculategrid

Immaculate Grid 1242 4/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 We’ve got a whole block of Rickeys in the bottom right today, two with higher percentages and two with very low ones. People don’t always think of Rickey as a power hitter but he did have 12 seasons with double digit home runs.

Immaculate Grid 1240 6/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 🚨DOUBLE RICKEY BINGO🚨 We’ve got Rickeys up and down two sides of today’s grid, thanks to his consistent achievements in scoring runs, which is the most important thing a baseball player can do.

Immaculate Grid 1219 1/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿 Two late career Rickey teams today. Other than the Giants, to whom Rickey nixed a trade ’89, Rickey played for every team located in a state bordering the Pacific. (He even spent a little time playing for the Portland Beavers in Oregon too)

Immaculate Grid 1218 4/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 We’ve got Rickeys in all four corners today. It’s a good day. It would also be a good day for @immaculategrid to end their virtue signaling and come back to Twitter. Remember how it used to be fun?

It’s surprising that Left Field / Gold Glove is th highest percentage. Rickey only had one Gold Glove, and that’s generally a low percentage category for him.

Other possible 9/9s today include: Cody Bellinger Christian Yelich Andrew McCutchen Barry Bonds Ichiro Suzuki Ken Griffey Jr. Larry Walker Andre Dawson Don Mattingly Willie McGee Dale Murphy Dave Parker Pete Rose

Immaculate Grid 1111 4/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 A nice block of Rickeys in the bottom left of today’s grid.

It’s been a while but we’ve got to pop back in for this 🚨 RICKEY BLACKOUT 🚨 Immaculate Grid 1098 9/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 Rickeys all the way down and across, just as it should be, forever and ever amen

Immaculate Grid 1031 4/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 It’s been a while since we’ve posted, but today’s four Rickey grid is too nice to ignore. 👏

Immaculate Grid 998 3/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 🚨RICKEY BINGO🚨 For Christmas (& Rickey’s birthday), we get a whole row of Rickeys! Though not the greatest man whose birth is recognized today (and I think even Rickey would acknowledge that one), he is certainly the greatest ballplayer🎅🏿

Immaculate Grid 997 1/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿 On the eve of his birthday, Rickey is found in just one spot on the grid. Hoping for more tomorrow! 🤞

Immaculate Grid 993 2/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿 One year ago today, Rickey died of pneumonia. It was good to see him on the grid today. Rest in peace. #RIPRickey

Immaculate Grid 992 4/9 Rickeys 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 It’s Rickey in the corners of today’s grid. December is a big month for Rickey. Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Rickey’s death, and of course, Christmas Day would have been his 67th birthday.