DAVE SCOTT RECOVERS FROM COVID

 

Great news from Dave Scott, BJ regional issues reporter and deputy Business editor before the April 2014 BJ buyouts exodus:

 

“My health has improved greatly. I’m over COVID and no longer infectious. Only a slight cough lingers.

“My foot continues to improve and I might return to HBO (hyperbaric oxygen) chamber treatment. My ear is not perfect but much better. I see an ENT Monday.

“No word on whether I’m excused from Jury Duty. Jane and Phillip are both doing well and we hope to have dinner together tonight. Thanks for the interest and good wishes.”

Jane Gaab Scott and Phillip also got COVID.

Dave and Jane, married 42 years, live in Copley and have 3 sons – John and Franklin and ???.

Jane managed the Fairlawn-Bath Library and was on the Copley Zoning Board for 11 years. Jane’s father, Robert Gaab, was a councilman in Independence during the 1960s.

She has a master's in Library Science from Kent State. She has been president of the Copley-Fairlawn Kiwanis and the Copley Historical Society.

Dave is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and publishes a blog. He shared his passion for baseball history and traveled to stadia around the country with the late BJ court reporter Dick McBane.

Dave once wrote:

“Many of you know that Dick and I shared an extreme love of baseball. It included vacations to visit minor-league teams for a couple of weeks in several summers.

In most cases, we’d spend a single day in each little town, scan the skyline of a town like Elmira, N. Y., for the stadium light towers before finding our next tiny, homey motel.

“The days were spent traveling or walking around town, often seeking out landmarks telling their part in local history. Dick often could provide lengthy details of how those places played roles in the Revolutionary War.

“The trips were a joy.”

Dave and I shared an experience, too. We spilled drinks on retired BJ super columnist Bob Dyer at a 2018 BJ reunion at the Silver Run Vineyard and Winery in Doylestown. Bob didn’t whine about the double dip of wine on his shirt. Laughed, in fact.

Failed surgery caused the foot problem. Doctors were trying to relieve pressure on the bone near his little toe which made it painful to walk.

The procedure, after the wound opened up,  exposed muscle, bone and tendons. It was infected.

 

The hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatment led to blood coming out of his right ear.

 

Dave and Jane’s son, Franklin and his wife Natasha Kunin Scott, who live in Oakland, California, made them grandparents for the first time in 2017.

 

The late Webb Shaw was married to Katie Gaab-Shaw, Jane’s sister.

 

Jane and Dave met on a blind date arranged by Webb and Kate Shaw and Rick and Diane Reiff. Dave met Rick was a reporter for the Norwalk Reflector when Dave was covering Huron and Erie counties for the Elyria Chronicle Telegram.

 

Northwestern University graduate Webb passed away in 2018.

 

Webb’s father, the late Ohio native and Fremont (Ohio) Ross High football star Bob Shaw, was an all-American end on Ohio State’s 1942 national championship team coached by the legendary Paul Brown, who eventually guided the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL.

 

Later Bob Shaw was a tight end with the 1949 Los Angeles Rams and was receivers coach with the Baltimore Colts in 1958 when they beat the New York Giants to win the NFL championship in what has been called "The Greatest Game Ever Played."

 

Rick had the foresight to push for 401(k) in Guild negotiations in 1989. That helped me live a comfortable retirement since my 1996 departure from Ol’ Blue Walls.

 

Dave and Doug Livingston won the 2014 National Association of Black Journalists Award for their series on poor black children hit by cars.