The black baseball card in my hands contained the haunting image of a somber fellow wearing a Cubs batting helmet. “In Memoriam — Ken Hubbs”. He looked so sad. All the other baseball cards I’d seen were bright and colorful, with the players gaily swinging bats, smiling at their good fortune. I turned the Hubbs card over and learned “the private plane he was piloting went down in a snowstorm near Provo, Utah”.
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Ken Hubbs. Kenneth Douglass Hubbs (December 23, 1941 – February 13, 1964) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs from 1961 to 1963. He was killed in a plane crash near Provo, Utah prior to the 1964 season.
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Ken Hubbs (1941-1964) The American sports scene has been badly polluted in the last several years by professional athletes who have been caught cheating with steroids and/or getting in trouble with the law. The phenomena has been particularly felt in the NFL and NBA.
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Who was Ken Hubbs? In 1962, he was the National League Rookie of the Year playing second base for the Chicago Cubs. During his rookie season, he set a major league fielding record for consecutive errorless games by a second baseman. By February 1964, he was gone, killed in a private airplane crash.
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February 15, 1964, 50 years ago today: Ken Hubbs is killed in a plane crash outside Provo, Utah. He was only 22 years old. Unlike a later baseball player who died in the crash of a plane he was piloting, Thurman Munson, who genuinely loved piloting, Hubbs had been taking flying lessons to conquer a fear of flying. In 1962, the Chicago Cubs promoted the 20-year-old 2nd baseman directly from Class B (which would be Double-A ball today).
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After his death, the Ken Hubbs Foundation was organized in his honor. Since 1964, the Ken Hubbs Award has been given to the best high school male athletes in the greater San Bernardino, California area. Colton High School has a gym named after Hubbs, which features a collection of trophies and other memorabilia.
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On February 13, 1964, Ken Hubbs died when his Cessna 172 airplane crashed into Utah Lake, in Provo, Utah. Lou Boudreau, said thirty years after his death (link), At the time he died, I definitely felt he was on his way to a Hall of Fame career.
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The card didn’t say (Hubbs died 2/13/64, giving time to make the special card). That was more unsettling, not knowing what took the life of one of the NL’s top relievers. In adulthood, I would learn Umbricht was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in his right leg in March of 1963.
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Ken Hubbs Stats. Ken Hubbs was born on Tuesday, December 23, 1941, in Riverside, California. Hubbs was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 10, 1961, with the Chicago Cubs.
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Ken Hubbs. The Chicago Cubs have had some outstanding second basemen in their long history. Four of them are enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame: Johnny Evers, Rogers Hornsby, Billy Herman, and Ryne Sandberg. There were some who thought that Ken Hubbs might take his place next to them in Cooperstown. “Kenny would have been one of the all-time greats,” said teammate Don Elston.
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Ken Hubbs was killed in a plane crash near Provo, Utah prior to the 1964 season. Ken Hubbs was killed in a plane crash near Provo.