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Leonys Martin of the Cleveland Indians was battling a life threatening bacteria, but he appears to be recovering. 

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No runs, no hits, no Aaron.
Aaron Cox, the 24-year-old brother-in-law of Angels star Mike Trout and until recently a pitching prospect in the team’s minor league system, died Wednesday, the Angels announced. A cause of death was not given.

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(Edit:  Tough crowd...)

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11 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Joe Landrum, a former Major League pitcher and the father of a former Big Leaguer, has died.  He was 89.   Landrum played 16 games for the Brooklyn Dodgers over two years in the early 1950s.

 

https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article217049975.html

 

 


16 total games, but was actually had a baseball card made in two different seasons.  Not bad.

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Horace "Doc" Edwards died in San Antonio, Texas. He was 81.

He was a backup catcher for most his major league playing career. 

Born in Red Jacket, W.Va. in 1936, Edwards earned his nickname after service time as a medic in the Navy. He played in 317 games in the major leagues from 1962-70 with a. 238 batting average 15 home runs and 87 RBIs for Cleveland, Kansas City, Philadelphia and New York Yankees.  Edwards managed the Cleveland Indians from 1987 to '89 and compiled a record of 173-207 in three years, including the strike-shortened 1987 season.  He would later managed the minor league Buffalo Bisons for two seasons (1993-94).

Interestingly, despite playing in 300 more games than Joe Landrum (above), I can not find a baseball card for him as a player.  Hmmm.
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Former major league pitcher Lee Stange, who won a career-high 12 games for the Twins in 1963, died Friday. He was 81.
Stange pitched for the Twins from 1961-64, Cleveland from 1964-66, Boston from 1966-70 and the Chicago White Sox in 1970. He was traded from the Twins to the Indians in a deal where the Twins got future 20-game winner Jim “Mudcat” Grant.
Stange was later a Red Sox pitching coach and was with the Boston organization for 23 years. He was 8-10 for the 1967 “Impossible Dream” Red Sox. His career record was 62-61 with 21 saves and a 3.56 ERA.
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Marty Pattin, who won over 100 games in his career and pitched in the 1971 all-star game, has died.  He was 75.  Pattin was on the 1969 Seattle Pilots for their lone major league season but spent the bulk of his career with Kansas City. 

 

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansas-city-royals/article219466410.html

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12 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Marty Pattin, who won over 100 games in his career and pitched in the 1971 all-star game, has died.  He was 75.  Pattin was on the 1969 Seattle Pilots for their lone major league season but spent the bulk of his career with Kansas City. 

 

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansas-city-royals/article219466410.html

 


Can't be many Seattle Pilots left.
I was but 7 years old but I attended the 1971 All Star Game in Detroit.  So I guess I saw Pattin play in it.

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Wayne Krenchicki, a backup infielder for several teams from 1979 to 1986, minor league coach and University of Miami Hall of Fame member, has died.  He was 64.

 

 

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb/reds/2018/10/17/wayne-krenchicki-ex-reds-infielder-minor-league-manager-dies-64/1667749002/

 

http://www.umsportshalloffame.com/wayne-krenchicki.html

 

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Boston Red Sox World Series champs!!!!!

 

Between that and my first moose, October was pretty good in New England!

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28 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Former Pirates / Braves player Dick Cole has died at 92 according to this tweet.

Posted 4 days ago but no confirmation yet.

Same name as the last of the Doolittle Raiders.....is there kismet and happenstance about to kick in??
 

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Bill Fischer’s life in professional baseball spanned 71 years and included time with two big-league franchises in Kansas City, a major-league record and a World Series ring.

Fischer, who died Tuesday at the age of 88, was the Royals’ pitching coordinator from 2007-10, then became the team’s senior pitching advisor, a job he held for the previous eight seasons.
Fischer was 17 years old when he signed with the Chicago White Sox in 1948, just two weeks after graduating from high school in Wisconsin.

He pitched for the White Sox minor-league system in 1954 and made his major-league debut two years later.  After pitching parts of three seasons with the White Sox, Fischer bounced between the Tigers and Washington Nationals, who would later move to Minnesota.  
In 1961, Fischer joined the Kansas City A’s. A year later, he set a major-league record by pitching 84 1/3 consecutive innings without issuing a walk, breaking the mark of 68 set by Christy Mathewson.
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Damn great ballplayer, Mr. McCovey was.

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Seattle Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto said that doctors discovered blood clots in his lungs. A pulmonary embolism like that can be fatal.  “Doing better, doing better,” Dipoto said a few days after being released from the hospital and returning to Seattle. The former reliever and frequent jogger is probably in better shape than most 50-year-olds.
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2 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

Seattle Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto said that doctors discovered blood clots in his lungs. A pulmonary embolism like that can be fatal.  “Doing better, doing better,” Dipoto said a few days after being released from the hospital and returning to Seattle. The former reliever and frequent jogger is probably in better shape than most 50-year-olds.
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The doctors discovering the clots while the person still has a pulse can greatly reduce the risk of a fatal pulmonary embolism. Some doctors at Panasonic Hospital (yes, really) in Japan diagnosed my brother (younger than Jerry Dipoto) with asthma, three days before he died of a pulmonary embolism from blood clots in his lungs. Physical activity has no bearing on survival: my brother ran, lifted weights, swam, bicycled, did martial arts... lots of physical activity.

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