(KMOX) - MLB Network will honor the six baseball legends who passed away in 2020, including former St. Louis Cardinals Lou Brock and Bob Gibson.
"Icons Lost" will also highlight the lives of Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson, Al Kaline, Joe Morgan and Tom Seaver – in the newest installment of the "MLB Network Presents" documentary series, premiering Saturday, December 26 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
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Icons Lost will provide an in-depth look at how these National Baseball Hall of Famers left an indelible mark on baseball history through exclusive new interviews with Hall of Famers Johnny Bench and Joe Torre, All-Stars Willie Horton, Tim McCarver and Bobby Richardson and 2018 Ford C. Frick Award winner Bob Costas.
It has been 48 years since the Hall of Fame lost six inductees in one year and in 2020, all six icons passed away in just over six months. Archival footage from classic World Series and All-Star Games, rarely seen interviews with the legends as young players, and clips from their Hall of Fame speeches will be interspersed throughout the program.
Icons Lost will cover their transcendent careers, signature moments, and the everlasting bond each of them had with the cities they played in and baseball fans around the world.
As a rookie in 1967, Bench details how Brock would bait him on the basepaths, only for Brock to easily swipe the base. As his catcher in the 1965 All-Star Game, Torre describes his uncomfortable encounter when he tried to speak to the intimidating Gibson on the mound.
Torre says in Icons Lost, “To lose such a big chunk of the backbone of Cooperstown, all of a sudden the number of living Hall of Famers has diminished by a significant number, it's tough."
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Launched in 2015, the MLB Network Presents series has produced programs covering many subjects across baseball, including one on the Hall of Fame career of Ken Griffey Jr. called Junior, which debuted this past June. The Emmy-nominated The Story of Billy Bean as well as Bench, Eck: A Story of Saving, Only in Hollywood, Mr. Padre, Billy, The Swingin' A's, Mike Trout: Millville to MVP and The Bird have all been produced by MLB Network Presents.
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