The 27 Club & Ms. Winehouse

In my year+ of curating this beacon of deathly excellence that is the dead league blog I believe Ms. Winehouse wins for the youngest person to score points. At 27 years old she is the latest member of the "27 club" who all obviously would have been 1st round draft choices in our twisted game. The list includes Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain & Freaky Tah of the rap group Lost Boyz. Congrats to Cremation Nation who jumps from 4th to first on the back of his 6th round pick Ms. Winehouse. Condolences go out to all the teams that dropped Ms. Winehouse in the past 4 years including Dead Presidents (last 2 years), Get Got (under a previous owner 3 years ago) and Happy enTrails 4 years ago before I bought my stake in the franchise. They tried to make her go to rehab.... I bet they are now reconsidering their intervention skillz.

Cleopatra is Dead

And perhaps our most famous death of 2011 so far is Elizabeth Taylor, the "Mother of Survival." I bet she is eating those words now. Taylor 79 is a nice return with 41 points for Living in Oblivion as well as a bloodbath bonus for the death of Pinetop Perkins as well, that is an extra 25 points.

So Long Pinetop...

I don't believe there will ever be another Pinetop Perkins, mostly because children generally are not named "Pinetop." However a google search revealed that we have lost possibly the last "great pre-WWII" jazz musician. Can we agree that we are close to losing anyone who lived "pre-WWII" ? Anyway team Dead Presidents in now on the board with a score of 23 for this death.

Workout of Death; RIP Jack Lalane

For the first time in 2 years Dead Presidents gets on the scoreboard with the passing of Jack Lalane at age 96. Mr. Lalane is worth a grand total of 24 points which puts the Presidents solidly in 5th place in the busy first month of Death.

Dead President's Roster

Good Luck Dead Presidents

2011 Draft Picks

1. Jimmy Carter Keeper
2. George H.W. Bush Keeper
3. Run Run Shaw
4. Mickey Rooney
5. Stan Musial
6. Jerry Lewis
7. Jack LaLanne
8. Artie Lang
9. Doc Watson
10. Fats Domino
11. Pinetop Perkins
12. I. M. Pei
13. Alan Young
14. Mike Wallace
15. Rose Marie
16. Pete Seeger

2012 Draftee's

Run Run Shaw
Jimmy Carter
fats domino
Superstar Billy Graham
I.M. Pei
Dear Abby
yogi berra
bernie madoff
Tom Seizmore
jake the snake roberts
paul orndorff
lex lugar
iron sheik
bobby the brain heenan
Joan fontaine
roberta McCain