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Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash following the 1972 season. This is a list of baseball players who died during their careers. While some of these deaths occurred during a game, the majority were the result of accidents off the field, illnesses, acts of violence, or suicide.
José Delfín Fernández Gómez (July 31, 1992 – September 25, 2016) was a Cuban-born American professional baseball right-handed pitcher who played four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was a member of the Miami Marlins from 2013 until his death in 2016. He stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed 243 pounds (110 kg) during ...
List of baseball players who died during their careers; B. Steve Bechler; C. Ray Chapman; Mike Coolbaugh; ... This page was last edited on 2 December 2016, at 06:31 ...
Former Baltimore Orioles pitcher Brian Matusz is dead. He was 37. The Orioles, with whom Matusz played from 2009 until 2016, announced his death in a statement on Tuesday, Jan. 7. "Our hearts are ...
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His high school baseball coach, Rob Duron, gave Skaggs the nicknames "Tall and Skinny" and "Pole". [7] In 2008, his junior year of high school, Skaggs was named the Ocean League's Player of the Year after posting a 1.11 earned run average (ERA), with 89 strikeouts, 44 hits allowed, and 22 walks in 63 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings pitched. [8]
June 10 - Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player; June 11 - Rudi Altig, German cyclist; June 15 - Hiroshi Minatoya, Japanese judoka; June 22 - Roberto Lovera, Uruguayan basketball player; June 28 - Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach; June 28 - Buddy Ryan, NFL coach; June 29 - Jan Hettema, South African cyclist and racecar driver
Hancock's death marked the second time in five years a player for the Cardinals died during the baseball season, the first being of pitcher Darryl Kile in 2002 with a coronary artery blockage. Hancock was the second active MLB player to be killed in an accident in less than a year, after the plane crash of Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle.