Whether you connected to Rusty Staub best as a player, as a broadcaster or as a humanitarian — or if you were fortunate enough to know him firsthand — he stood out, right? The red hair. The batting stance. The erudite nature. The relentless commitment to helping others.
“What a unique personality he was,” Ron Darling said Thursday morning at Citi Field. “I’ve never met anyone like him. I think that that’s unusual. Where everyone ends up being just about like everyone else, he was not that guy.”
Staub sadly entered the “was” phase of his existence on Thursday morning, as he passed away Thursday morning in a West Palm Beach hospital after a long illness.