Tom Ligon, who portrayed backup catcher Piney Woods and performed the cowboy ballad “Streets of Laredo” in the poignant baseball drama Bang the Drum Slowly , has died. He was 85.  Ligon’s death was reported Monday by SAG-AFTRA New York Local. A longtime resident of Greenwich Village, he served as its National Seniors Committee chair and New York Seniors Committee co-chair . The blue-eyed Ligon also starred as a hillbilly demolition derby driver in 1971’s Jump (also known as Fury on Wheels ) and appeared two years later in another movie revolving around car racing, The Last American Hero , starring Jeff Bridges. On television, Ligon was involved in a love quadrangle as Lucas Prentiss on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1978-82 and recurred as the prisoner Alvin Yood, a small-town sheriff convicted of aggravated assault, on HBO’s Oz from 2001-03.…