Pitcher and politician Jim Bunning dies

Baseball and politics lost a colorful figure over the weekend with the death of Jim Bunning Saturday at age 85. The major league pitcher played 17 seasons (1955-1971) with the Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers, throwing a perfect game for the Phillies in 1964. After baseball, Bunning went on to become an outspoken conservative Republican congressman (1987-1999) and later a U.S. senator from Kentucky (1999-2011). Bunning remains the only member of the Baseball Hall of Fame to be elected to Congress. Bunning, who was 85, suffered a stroke in October.

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