Great NY Times article on Si Simmons, who is about to turn 111

[Steven Bryant]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/sports/baseball/26oldest.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1159243200&en=94f2d38271b59824&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

A pretty good article on pro-baseball's oldest living player.

Steve

[Baseball Guru]

Great read! Thanks for posting it:clapping

[Mattingly]

Well, since I've already been badly beaten to the punch, I'll just add these pix of interest:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/09/26/sports/26oldest.1_650x511.jpg
Chip Litherland for The New York Times
Silas Simmons identified himself as the second player from the right in the middle row in this
1913 photograph of the Homestead Grays.

http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/09/26/sports/26oldest.2_650x436.jpg
Chip Litherland for The New York Times
Silas Simmons, 110, started playing pro baseball in the early 1910's.

[2Chance]

He's having a birthday on Oct. 14, and if you want to send a card:

Silas Simmons
Westminster Suncoast
6909 Dr. MLK Jr. Street South
Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA 33705

[DTF955]

Cool, I'll have to, thanks.