Casey Stengel

Charles and Edna Stengel. From Forest Lawn Memorial (Glendale). Not too far from Michael Jackson and Spencer Tracy. 

Gregory Peck

Gregory and Veronique Peck

from the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles

Lots of room there. The Pecks must have been supporters.

Errol Flynn

From Forest Lawn Memorial (Glendale).
A simple marker about the middle of the north wall of their Garden of Everlasting Peace.

Frankie Frisch, The Fordham Flash

"F is for Fordham

And Frankie and Frisch;

I wish he were back

With the Giants, I wish."

(from “Line-Up for Yesterday” by Ogden Nash)

Grantland Rice

Famed Sportswriter of the 1920s and 30s. From Woodlawn.

"For when the One Great Scorer comes

To mark against your name,

He writes - not that you won or lost -

But how you played the Game."

(from the poem "Alumnus Football")

Grantland Rice is Bill Simmons inspiration for grantland.com

For the sons of American Gold Star Mothers

Not a grave. From Memorial Grove in Van Cortlandt Park. Very unassuming, neat section remembering a couple of dozen members of the miltary. The most recent passing of the departed that I observed was recorded in 1950.

Ron Silver

Ron Silver. From Westchester Hills. It's hilly there. Like to come back in better weather. Nice staff. Map..not so much.