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Santo not just a winner -- he's a champion in life

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Ron Santo leads the crowd in singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch of a game at Wrigley Field in 2006.

Mark Black | Staff Photographer

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”Oh no!.” That probably was Ron Santo's most famous call as a Cubs' radio broadcaster when Brant Brown dramatically dropped a fly ball in 1998. It likely also was the reaction Friday morning of Chicago sports fans to news that Santo – as iconic a sports icon around here could be – had died.