Rest In Peace Vuk

Remembering John Vukovich
Phillies.com

Profile in courage: Vukovich, No. 18
Phillies coach was an all-around wonderful friend and teacher
Phillies.com

Longtime Phillies coach Vukovich dies
Daily News

Phils coach John Vukovich dies
Inquirer

Vukovich dies at 59
ESPN.com

And here is Jayson Stark's comments he made in his blog, normally the blog is "Insider Only", but not for this article, so check it out. It's a very personal article from a person that has covered the Phillies for a long time as many of us know, here's one good piece from it:

John Vukovich should have managed someone's baseball team. As recently as six months ago, his friend and mentor, Dallas Green, stopped me in the Phillies' press room to ask me, please, to get this guy's name out there last winter, to connect him with somebody's managerial vacancy.

But by November, our friend's health was already beginning to worsen. So he couldn't have taken one of those jobs even if he'd been offered one.

All I got to say that it's very sad to hear of the passing of John Vukovich. He was a connection back to the 1980 team and through all the years of bad coaches and new coaches he was a coach that no one ever bad-mouthed and everyone liked.