"Sue Bird was just so nice" - RIP Jim Caple

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Vicki didn’t quite love that “Sue Bird” would likely be her husband’s last words—“it was kind of pissing me off, to be honest,” she laughs—she also knew that “Sue Bird” is not a bad exit line at all. By the time Sue Bird herself retired, in a blaze of words, with a 90-minute speech after her jersey was raised to the rafters following the Storm game last June 11, Jim’s attention span had vanished almost entirely. He didn’t have the patience for anything longer than a music video. And yet there were Jim and Vicki, on the edge of their couch, watching on YouTube, hanging on Bird’s every word: Vicki in her No. 10 Storm jersey, Jim in his well-worn and much-loved T-shirt emblazoned “Sue Bird Forever.”

Sue Bird Forever? Not exactly. On Sunday, Oct. 1, the final day of the baseball regular season, at home outside Seattle, Jim’s lifetime of words came to an end. The last words uttered by the wordsmith were not, as it happened, “Sue Bird.” The last words Jim summoned before passing into eternity were “Vicki Schuman.”

Love and Sports Were Perfectly Intertwined in Sportswriter Jim Caple’s Life Until the Very End​

 

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Vicki didn’t quite love that “Sue Bird” would likely be her husband’s last words—“it was kind of pissing me off, to be honest,” she laughs—she also knew that “Sue Bird” is not a bad exit line at all. By the time Sue Bird herself retired, in a blaze of words, with a 90-minute speech after her jersey was raised to the rafters following the Storm game last June 11, Jim’s attention span had vanished almost entirely. He didn’t have the patience for anything longer than a music video. And yet there were Jim and Vicki, on the edge of their couch, watching on YouTube, hanging on Bird’s every word: Vicki in her No. 10 Storm jersey, Jim in his well-worn and much-loved T-shirt emblazoned “Sue Bird Forever.”

Sue Bird Forever? Not exactly. On Sunday, Oct. 1, the final day of the baseball regular season, at home outside Seattle, Jim’s lifetime of words came to an end. The last words uttered by the wordsmith were not, as it happened, “Sue Bird.” The last words Jim summoned before passing into eternity were “Vicki Schuman.”

Love and Sports Were Perfectly Intertwined in Sportswriter Jim Caple’s Life Until the Very End​

Thanks for sharing the article. Way too young to go!!