Oct: While Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford may have died this month at the age of 91, but he could have died back in January 1997, when he was knocked unconscious with what while pleading for some kind of sanity in the Simpsons' episode "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson?"
pretzels [Which brought about the famous line "Aaaannnd heeerrre come the pretzels"!"]