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Originally Posted by dennis_keith
It's odd that baseball-reference.com and Wikipedia.org are still listing Bob Kuzava as being alive about three days after he supposedly passed away. Usually when a player dies there is not this long of a delay before the these sources change a player's status to deceased. Kuzava is still listed on Wikipedia's Oldest living MLB Players as the 20th oldest living major leaguer.
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Baseball-Reference tends to wait for an official obit before they post a death (and Wikipedia is, well, wikipedia). It took almost a month before Vic Albury's death was posted to B-R. Windy McCall died in February of 2015 and no one caught wind of it until April 2016. And then it STILL took another year for B-R to verify and post it.
I have a couple of sites I go to for necrology. And, for a quick summary, I prefer Baseball Almanac to Baseball-Reference. One of the sites I frequent posted
this from a "very good friend" of Bob Kuzava written May 16 and referencing his death as happening "yesterday".
And, as long as we're on the subject, the image appearing with the post looks a bit green. So I did a little color correction. Slight initial color balance away from green, drained the green and yellow from the uni only, colorized the sky (added clouds), and then worked on the face (and a little bit on the hands). Lost some of the resolution on the trees, but that could easily be fixed, were I of a mind to do it.
Edit: For those who don't have Facebook accounts, I've added a screen capture of the notice I referenced above.