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Old 05-03-2023, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive View Post
True.

Jim Croce was a favorite of mine. I wonder just how much more he would have contributed, had he not died so young.
He died the same night as the Battle of the Sexes with Bobby Riggs against Billie Jean King. I was watching the match in the college dorm that evening. The next morning I woke up to hear that Croce had died in a plane crash.