just wondering

[cubs121]

i was wonder does any one remember a good player/valuable to his team

to pass away during the season?

 

thanks

[Guest]

i was wonder does any one remember a good player/valuable to his team

to pass away during the season?

 

thanks

Darryl Kile

[sunnydoo]

thurman munson, an amazing catcher.

 

here is a link to the Milky paper on Active baseball deaths over the last 30 years, but it includes out of season deaths as well.

 

Journal Sentinel

 

There is also a baseball website that tracks player deaths...will try to find the link.

 

Edit: Found it...enjoy! You can spend several hours looking at it

[srbin84]

An excerpt from wikipedia:

 

Bostock's 1978 season started off a disaster, with him batting only .150 for the month of April. Bostock went to Autry and attempted to give back his April salary, saying he hadn't earned it. Autry refused, so Bostock announced he would be donating his April salary to charity. Thousands of requests came in for the money, and Bostock went through each of them, trying to determine who needed it the most.

 

Bostock worked the rest of the season to get his batting average up over .300. On Sept. 23, 1978, with his batting average sitting at .296 after a game with the Chicago White Sox, Bostock visited his uncle in Gary, Indiana.After eating a meal with a group of people, Bostock got in the back seat of his uncle's car. As the vehicle crossed the intersection of 5th and Jackson streets, a car pulled up along side them. The driver got out and fired one blast of a 410 gauge shotgun into the back seat where Bostock was sitting. The shooter, Leonard Smith, did not even know Lyman Bostock. His lethal wrath was intended for his estranged wife, Barbara Smith, who was along with the group as a guest of Bostock's uncle, Thomas Turner, who happened to be her godfather. The blast missed the woman but struck Bostock in the left temple. He died two hours later at a Gary hospital. It was later discovered that Bostock had known the woman in the car for a total of twenty minutes.

 

Tried for murder, Smith was eventually found not guilty by reason of insanity. Though Smith was jailed awaiting and during his trial and confined for psychiatric treatment afterward, he was soon deemed no longer mentally ill by his psychiatrists, and Smith's total time in custody ultimately amounted to only 21 months. Leonard Smith was released from Logansport State Hospital and returned home a completely free man less than two years after having taken Lyman Bostock's life in cold blood.

 

In a four-season career, Bostock was a .311 hitter with 23 home runs and 250 RBI in 526 games. He is interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

[Shilzzz]

did roberto clemente pass away in the offseason?

[CubinNY]

The Cubs had some really good rookie in the 60s or 70s who died in the off-season. I cannot remember his name though. I think it could have been between 68 and 69.

[Andy]

The Cubs had some really good rookie in the 60s or 70s who died in the off-season. I cannot remember his name though. I think it could have been between 68 and 69.

Ken Hubbs died in the 1963-64 offseason in a plane crash.

[ToupeeOnFire]

Steve Olin and Tim Crews, both pitching for Cleveland at the time, died during spring training in a boating accident on March 1993. Veteran pitcher Bob Ojeda was also hurt in the crash and never really pitched effectively again.

[EricG]

There have been a few offensive lineman who died during/after practice. But that's football. Wasn't there a player who died in Pheonix area during the offseason (Arizona Fall League) from the Reds.

Dernell Stenson

[ToupeeOnFire]

There have been a few offensive lineman who died during/after practice. But that's football. Wasn't there a player who died in Pheonix area during the offseason (Arizona Fall League) from the Reds.

Dernell Stenson

Yeah, Stenson was shot in an armed robbery. The tragic and sordid details can be found under his Wikipedia entry.

 

Veteran infielder Mike Sharperson was another guy whose career was cut short, in a car crash, when he was playing AAA in the San Diego organization. If I'm not mistaken, he spent a very brief time with the Cubs.

[NCCubFan]

did roberto clemente pass away in the offseason?

Yes; it was on New Year's Eve.