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Sidd Finch. Sidd Finch is a fictional baseball player, the subject of the notorious April Fools' Day hoax article "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" written by George Plimpton and first published in the April 1, 1985, issue of Sports Illustrated. According to Plimpton, Finch was raised in an English orphanage, learned yoga in Tibet, and could ...
José Delfín Fernández Gómez (July 31, 1992 – September 25, 2016) was a Cuban-born American professional baseball 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 his playing ...
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. Repeated studies have shown that contemporary Major League ...
Steve Olin was born on October 4, 1965, in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in nearby Beaverton. [1] He graduated from Beaverton High School in 1984, and was recruited by baseball coach Jack Dunn to attend Portland State University. [2] Olin set a Pac-10 Conference record with 31 career complete games at Portland State between 1984 and 1987.
An investigation later found that Crews had driven the boat too fast into an unlighted dock and was impaired by a blood alcohol level of 0.14. [1] Crews and Olin were the first active MLB players to die since Thurman Munson in 1979. In their memory, the Cleveland Indians wore a patch on their jerseys bearing both players' uniform numbers during ...
A future college baseball player was seriously hurt in a North Carolina boating accident, officials said. Parker Byrd, a freshman at East Carolina University in Greenville, was tubing when part of ...
Cory Lidle. Cory Fulton Lidle (March 22, 1972 – October 11, 2006) was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, Lidle played in Major League Baseball with the New York Mets, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees from 1997 to 2006.
An 18-year-old baseball player died in a single-car crash, rattling a “tight-knit” North Carolina community, officials said. William “Blake” Hughes is remembered as a hard-working high ...