Soupy Sales gone at age 83.

Sales died at Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.

At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and ’60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.

“If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy,” said Usher.

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