Jim Bunning Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I know there are others on
the Senate floor seeking to speak, but I wish to bid farewell to one
of our colleagues. Few people can say they have had the same range of
experience and successes in life asSenator Jim Bunning. In fact, there
isn't even another Major Leaguer who can say he struck out Ted
Williams three times in one game. Jim accomplished that notable feat
in just his second year in the majors. Thirty-nine years after that,
he had become the only member of the
Baseball Hall of Fame to serve inCongress. For the past 12 years, I
have been honored to work alongside this remarkable Americanin the
Senate. We followed different paths in life, but we sure have deeplove
for Kentucky and its people. It has been my honor over the years to
work closely with Jim to advance our common goals. So today I wish to
say a few wordsabout my good friend as we honor his remarkable life
and his remarkable service. Jim was born and raised in Southgate, KY,
and it wouldn't surprise anybody to learn he excelled in school and in
sports growing up. He
played baseball as a teenager atSt. Xavier High School in Cincinnati,
but it was for his skills as a basketball player that would earn him
an athletic scholarship to Xavier University. Baseball interrupted his
college education, but at his father's insistence,[[Page S10313]]Jim
would return to Xavier and earna degree in economics that would serve
him well in Congress over theyears. He entered the majors in 1955, and
over the course of a storied 17-year career he would play for the
Detroit Tigers, the Philadelphia Phillies, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and
the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jim is a pretty imposing force at committee
hearings--just ask Chairman Bernanke--but he was a dominating presence
on the mound long before that. At 6 feet 4 inches, he was a
hard-throwing sidearmer who would tumble off the mound with every
pitch he threw. By the end of his career, Jim
could boast he was the first Major League pitcher to win 100 games,
rack up 1,000 strikeouts, and throw no-hitters in both leagues. He
finished with an impressive 224 wins, 184 losses, 2,855 strikeouts,
and a 3.27 ERA--the career stats that would earn him a spot in the
Baseball Hall of Fame. Jim's two greatest pitching achievements were
his no-hitter in 1958 and the perfect game he threw on Father's Day,
1964, a feat that has only been accomplished 20 times inbaseball
history. Another little known feat was Jimmy's so-called ``immaculate
inning'' in 1959 when he struck out three Red Sox on nine pitches, a
feat that has only been achieved 43 other times in baseballhistory.
Around here we joke that Jim likes to throw the high hard ones, but he
developed the skill early. Over a 4-year period with the Phillies, Jim
hit more opposing batters with pitches than any other pitcher in the
league. In fact, over a 17-year career, he plunked 160batters or
nearly 10 batters a year, making him the 13th most dangerous pitcher
of all time, ahead of such other well-known head hunters as Roger
Clemens, Nolan Ryan, and Don Drysdale. Jim has never been afraid of a
little chin music, and he brought that same competitive mentality to
his life in public service. After baseball, public service seemed
likea logical choice. It was Jimmy's turn to give back, and give back
is exactly what he did. When Jim walks out of this Chamber for the
last time at the end of this session, he will be able to say with
justifiable pride that he has given 33 years of his life to public
service and to Kentucky. Over those three decades, Jim hasserved in
all levels of government--from the Fort Thomas City Council to the
Kentucky S tate
Senate, to both Chambers in this building--12 years in the House and
12 in the Senate. He has dedicated hislife to serving the people of
Kentucky, and Kentuckians are grateful for his service. In the House,
he made a name for himself, among other things, by working tirelessly
to strengthen and protect Social Security as chairman of the House
Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security. And then, in 1998, he
decided to make a run at the U.S. Senate seat
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