Ernie Banks passed away and his death really doesn't affect most people except those few still around who happened to be sports fans and old enough to remember him playing back in the sixties. Ernie Banks is the beloved Mr Cub although for about 99percent of the fans who attend Wrigley Field games this year most remember him as an old man as I do. Ernie was super old even in the nineties that I remember seeing him and how this mans death warrants more than a couple of sentences in the obituaries is evident of the power of old men and their money in the media. Ernie was such a charismatic fellow many write and anyone would paid a good fortune to play a ball game should really have a pleasant personality. The fact that he put up great stats really doesn't make this man so great whose death is anything more than other many eighty year olds who will pass away. Ernie Banks was an old man and basically wasn't relevant in the news for decades.
He wasn't real relevant in the civil rights era either as one of the sporting worlds biggest names back then. I really don't know what the legacy of a dude like Ernie Banks should be aside from some guy who jacked five hundred home runs in an era that was way more obsessed with bore ball than it is in this day of age. The Chicago Cubs and corporate baseball will see less players tough who played the game not for the money because they liked the game. Ernie Banks likely might of been a bus driver or street sweeper without organized ball and really his death should not be any more important than the many street sweepers or vegetable peddlers who have died before him and after him. Without the corporate ability to push organized sport to distract the masses many of these athletes would never be relevant even when they become eight and pass away.
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