Norm Cash Obituary

Norm Cash Obituary

Baseball Almanac presents the actual word-for-word transcript from the obituary of Norm Cash, taken from The Detroit Free Press.

"'I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right-field fence, and my hollow bats.' Norm Cash One of the baseball players who made some noise when I was a youth was Norm Cash. Although I was a Yankee fan, my dad was a Detroit Tiger fan, so I tended to follow the Tigers a bit closer than the rest of the teams. Also, a youth, I was totally immersed in baseball and its numbers, and so was quite intrigued with the magical year of 1961." - Sportswriter Bob Palazzo on The Diamond Angle (website)

Norm Cash Obituary

Norm Cash, 51, Is Found Dead

CHARLEVOIX, Mich., Oct. 12 (AP)

Norm Cash, a first baseman for the Detroit Tigers for 15 years and the American League batting champion in 1961, apparently drownsed today while boating on northern Lake Michigan, authorities said.

The body of Cash, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., was identified by his wife, Dorothy this afternoon, said Patrick Avery, an officer in the Charlevoix County Sheriff's Department. Cash was 51 years old.

He retired from baseball in 1974 with a career .271 average.

Norm Cash Obituary

Norm Cash, the 1961 batting champion who hit .361 and finished more than thirty points ahead of the number two batter, hit only .243 in 1962 making his .118 point drop the largest ever during a consecutive season by a batting champion.

The slugging Cash was The Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year Award winner in 1965 and before he even stepped on to a Major League baseball field, he was drafted by the National Football League's Chicago Bears.

Did you know that Norm Cash once came to the plate during a game with the leg from a clubhouse table instead of a bat? It happened during Nolan Ryan's second no-hitter and its mentioned in the introductory quote.

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