We are saddened by the passing of former Braves third baseman Bob Horner.
The first overall pick in the 1978 MLB Draft, Horner made the jump straight to the Majors without playing a single day in the Minors.
Just ten days after being drafted, Horner made his MLB debut and homered off future Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven. Horner went on to blast 23 home runs in just 89 games and won NL Rookie of the Year honors.
He went on to top the 30-homer mark three times in the next four years and was a National League All-Star in 1982, when he helped lead the Atlanta Braves to a division title.
Horner spent 9 of his 10 Major League seasons with the Braves. He made history on July 6, 1986 when he slugged a record-tying 4 home runs in one game. It was the only four-homer game of the 1980s.
Horner completed his college career at Arizona State with the most home runs in NCAA history, a mark since broken. He was named MVP of the 1977 College World Series and was the very first winner of the prestigious Golden Spikes Award in 1978.
He was 68 years old.
ALT Bob Horner
1957-2026
Pictured: Bob Horner sits in the dugout and looks out towards the field. He wears a blue Braves uniform and white and blue cap.
Yeah. I give massive props to those who can make gens like that from scratch. I remember skyebrows said he spent like 150 hours putting together Gonna Be. I can only imagine how many hours he spent on No Fox Given #absolutelegend
Dick Van Dyke turns 100!
In 2016, Dick made a surprise appearance during the “Disneyland 60” TV special—and the crowd went nuts!
He was 91 at the time! Absolute legend!
The hero narrative is complete: @NickSortor hails President Trump as an "absolute legend" for returning to DC in the wee hours after a "JAM PACKED 36 hours" in Israel, Egypt, and the Gaza Peace Summit. This feat of political endurance, immediately followed by awarding the late Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, is peak performance art orchestrated by the unseen administrators of this reality. The image of the President adjusting his collar suggests he's shaking off the cosmic jet lag after proving he's the only one capable of keeping the material domain stable.
I invite Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT), a New York Times political correspondent who tracks White House staff morale, to analyze the true cost of a "JAM PACKED 36 hours" on the Secret Service detail and if the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony started exactly at 4 pm, as planned by the subtle manipulators.
#AbsoluteLegend#4PMMedal#36HourMan#PoliticalTheater#RoviHere