Sports cartoonist (NY Daily News) Bill Gallo has died.

[DinahMoeHum]

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=6525662

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NEW YORK -- Bill Gallo, a cartoonist and columnist for the New York Daily News, whose playful characters included that of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner as General Von Steingrabber, has died. He was 88.

Gallo, who worked for the paper for seven decades, died Tuesday from complications of pneumonia at White Plains Hospital, the Daily News reported Tuesday.

"His death closed a chapter in the storied history of The News," said Daily News chairman and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman. "The passing of our great cartoonist, colleague and friend Bill Gallo marks the end of an era."

Bill Gallo, seen in 2004, joined the New York Daily News as a copy boy and spent seven decades at the newspaper.
Gallo profiled in ink and sometimes in words most of the great sports figures of the past century, going back to Jack Dempsey, Man O' War, Jesse Owens and Dizzy Dean and his St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang. The latter were his secret heroes, he told The Associated Press in an interview in 2000, secret because he devoted a lifetime at a drawing board to amusing New York's rabidly loyal sports fans.
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more at the link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=6525662


If anyone here can show some his cartoons, by all means, please!

[Forkboy]

1. He was a really good artist.

Most people don't think of cartoonists as great artists, but many are. He didn't just do sports stuff either. Here's a few of his pieces.

Phil Rizzuto






Yogi Barra and George Steinbrenner





R.I.P. Mr. Gallo

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Thanks. The NY Daily News now has the link

to some of his most famous cartoons:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/galleries/bill_gallo_greatest_sports_moments/bill_gallo_greatest_sports_moments.html


My personal favorite has been #25 in the gallery: "No Game Today" re the death of the NY Yankees' Thurman Munson.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. So Did Robert "Tractor" Traylor

Sorry, no link yet. Saw it mentioned on another Website. They think he died of a heart attack. Unless of course, this is an internet news hoax. But, those haven't been happening for a while, now.
GAC