Word: patkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the sports world has been stunned by the deaths of Wilt Chamberlain, Payne Stewart and Walter Payton in the past few weeks, Max Patkin bought the farm Saturday with hardly a ripple of notice...
Most people wouldn't know it, but "bought the farm" is definitely an appropriate euphemism for Patkin's death. He would have wanted his passing to be remembered a little differently than everyone else...
...Patkin was the Clown Prince of Baseball, a one-man barnstorming road show who appeared in nearly every minor and major league ballpark in the country over the course of 50 years...
When the visiting team would take the field, Patkin would stand two feet behind the first baseman and imitate his warm-up. When the player realized he was being parodied, he'd turn around, only to find Patkin standing around as if nothing had happened...
Members of the Harvard community have long been familiar with Patkin, who, as head of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association, has tirelessly and responsibly worked to improve relations between the University and its neighbors. Pitkin knows how the city works and is not afraid to expose incompetence within the bureaucracy. He would be an excellent addition to the council...