RIP -- Gil Stratton
 

From the Seattle Times:

Gil Stratton, who died Saturday of heart failure, packed a lot into his 86 years.

He was a Southern California sports broadcaster, an actor from Broadway to films, and even a baseball umpire.

"There aren't many renaissance men in any age, but Gil was one of them," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, a former co-worker, told the Los Angeles Times via e-mail. "He knew everybody and everything and seemed to delight in them all."

Well, almost everything.

"In '56 or '57," Olbermann wrote, "he had it on the highest authority that the Dodgers would not be moving to L.A. ... In fact he told his viewers on KNXT that if the Dodgers did move to L.A., he'd jump off the end of the Santa Monica pier.

"They did, and so he did."