twincities.com - 2/19/2009
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Minnesota wrestling legend Verne Gagne, who climbed to fame as a likeable giant of the ring, is under police investigation in the death of a fellow resident at a Bloomington care facility, a local television station is reporting.
jsonline.com - 2/17/2009
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jsonline.com —
Feb. 17, 2009 3:25 p.m. Phoenix - I'm
guessing most of you didn't see this coming because...
we sure didn't. Eric Gagne is back. The Brewers just announced that Gagne signed a minor-league deal with an invitation to spring camp. Doug Melvin told us the ...
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Gagne is back
twins-territory.com - 2/18/2009
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twins-territory.com —
Eric Gagne was almost a Twin. In fact,
Gagne informed the Twins, just shortly before they turned...
him away, that he would accept a one-year, $3 million offer to bolster the bullpen. Instead the Twins moved in a new direction and within a week agreed to a one-year, $1.3 million deal with ...
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Gagne for What?
myfoxtwincities.com - 2/19/2009
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Senile Wrestling Legend Relives Glory Days, Accused of Beating Fellow Senior to Death
Hugging Harold Reynolds —
... From Twincities.com: Police said [Verne] Gagne, 82, threw his roommate, Helmut R. Gutmann, 97, to the floor on Jan. 26, breaking his leg and injuring his head, according to KMSP-TV. Gutmann was treated for his injuries, but was later rehospitalized, the station said. He died Saturday. The men lived at Friendship Village, a care facility for people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Both had Alzheimer's-related dementia, KMSP-TV said. Gagne founded the now-defunct AWA, best known for supplementing actual wrestling with midget ...
Elderly Wrestling Legend Verne Gagne Investigated in Death at Nursing Home
FanHouse —
... member of Gagne's family reacted angrily when told that MinnPost.com was publishing the story: "He has only one minute of memory retention," the woman said. "And even though nobody is saying that this is the reason that this man died, you're going to publish this? Unbelievable. You take a man who has given nothing but his time and his energy to this state, he loses his mind, and you're going to do this?" The story has been picked up by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the local Fox affiliate, and Gagne's Wikipedia entry was ...
Tragic tale involving wrestling’s Verne Gagne
SmackCaster SmackBlog —
... . Accordinng to the Minnesota Post, In a tragic moment on January 26, Gagne, 82, apparently threw Helmut R. Gutmann, 97, a former cancer researcher who came to this country after fleeing Hitler’s Nazi Germany to the floor. Gutmann was taken to the hospital and died 20 days later. ...
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[ Gagne, 82, and still defending that belt. ]
The only thing I can think of to set off an old wrestler like Gagne , 82, and put him in the mood to throw nursing home resident Helmut Gutmann, age 97, around and possibly kill him, is if Guttman told Gagne he thought wrestling was fake. ...
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brewersbeat.mlblogs.com 2/19/2009 — Following his head instead of his heart, Eric Gagne reluctantly pulled out of the World Baseball Classic to focus on winning a job in the Brewers bullpen.Gagne was on the provisional roster for Team Canada and wanted to play in...
On Eric Gagne, and why I didn't like his signing
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Gagne and the Brewers
mlbnotebook.com 2/20/2009 — First some notes on Eric Gagne to start us off. Gagne signed a minor league deal with the Brewers yesterday. Gagne will not be pitching in the WBC. Gagne will not be wearing his goggles this season, after having laser eye surgery done this offseason. ...
Another look at the bullpen competition
brewcrewball.com 2/21/2009 — I am coming way late to the party after much discussion about Eric Gagne yesterday but I really haven't posted anything of substance here for a while so I thought I would take this opportunity to do a rundown on most of the pitchers competing for the ...
Gagne's goggles gone
jsonline.com 2/19/2009 — Feb. 19, 2009 11:35 a.m. Phoenix - No more goggles for Eric Gagne. The veteran reliever revealed this morning that he has joined the growing number of players to have Lasik laser eye surgery. Gagne had worn prescription goggles since coming to the ...
Elderly Wrestling Legend Verne Gagne Investigated in Death at Nursing Home
backporch.fanhouse.com 2/19/2009 — by Michael David Smith Verne Gagne is one of the legends of professional wrestling, a pioneer of the sports-entertainment hybrid who was influential both in the ring and out of it. (In the above video he's wrestling Killer Kowalski in 1953.) Gagne is now 82 years old and suffering from ...
How To Build a Bullpen
brewcrewball.com 2/21/2009 — Last year at this time, the story was how Doug Melvin prioritized the bullpen and spent big bucks bringing in reinforcements. He signed Gagne, Riske, and Mota, and traded for Salomon Torres, all the while making threatening phone calls to rival ...
Gagne for What? —
Bleacher Report - MLB 2/18/2009
Eric Gagne was almost a Twin. In fact, Gagne informed the Twins, just shortly before they turned him away, that he would accept a one-year, $3 million offer to bolster the bullpen.
Instead the Twins moved in a new direction and within a week agreed ...
