Dusty Rhodes Dies

Dusty Rhodes, whose pinch-hitting heroics led the New York Giants to win the 1954 World Series, a championship the Giants, who moved to San Francisco four years later, have yet to repeat, died Wednesday in Las Vegas. He was 82 and lived in Henderson, Nev.

The cause was heart failure, said his daughter Helane.

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Rhodes’s first two marriages ended in divorce. In addition to his daughter, who lives in Henderson, he is survived by his wife, Gloria, whom he married in 1980; two sons, Jeffrey, of Old Bridge, N.J., and James Jr., of Hanoi, Vietnam; 11 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

Rest In Peace, Dusty.