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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.
The Dodgers first baseman hit his third home run of this World Series in as many games and staked L.A. to a 2-0 lead in Game 3 before a sold-out crowd could even watch the Yankees bat in their ...
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela died on Tuesday, October 22, at the age of 63 — but his legacy will live on with sports fans for decades to come. Valenzuela made a splash ...
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 .
He also played in his first World Series that year, which the Dodgers lost to the Oakland Athletics in five games; Buckner hit .250 in the Series, including a home run off Catfish Hunter in Game 3, a 3–2 road loss. [13] In his Dodgers career, Buckner batted .289 with 38 home runs and 277 runs batted in in 773 games. [14]
Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman talk about the Dodgers being one win away from a World Series title, recap the action from Game 3 and preview a do-or-die Game 4 for the Yankees to keep their ...
The former baseball pro was 83 when he died at his home in Las ... During his career, Rose earned 17 All-Star Game nods and won three World Series championships — two with the Reds in 1975 and ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]