Ex-Reliever Rod Beck Dead at Age 38
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-- Rod Beck, a relief pitcher who wore a bushy mustache while earning 286 career saves, was found dead Saturday. He was 38. Beck was found by police officers responding to a call to his home in suburban Phoenix, according to police department spokesman Andy Hill. Foul play is not suspected, though...
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Former Texas and Baltimore manager Johnny Oates has died at age 58. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago. Oates&#39; death was confirmed by John Blake, who formerly worked as a spokesman with the Rangers organization.
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Rod Kanehl, who hit the first grand slam in the history of the New York Mets, has died. He was 70.
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A drug overdose killed former baseball star Ken Caminiti, who tested positive for cocaine in the weeks before he died at age 41 and had admitted using steroids during his playing days, the city medical examiner ruled Monday.
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Bronx, NY (Sports Network) - Ken Caminiti, who won the National League MVP in 1996 and later admitted to using steroids during his playing career, passed away on Sunday due to an apparent heart attack.
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NEW YORK -- Ken Caminiti, the 1996 National League MVP who later admitted using steroids during his major league career, died yesterday. He was 41.
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Sunderland legend Ian Porterfield, who scored the winner in the 1973 FA Cup final against Leeds, dies.
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NEW YORK - A drug overdose killed former baseball star Ken Caminiti, who tested positive for cocaine in the weeks before he died at age 41 and had admitted using steroids during his playing days, the city medical examiner ruled Monday.
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Ken Caminiti, the 1996 National League Most Valuable Player who admitted to using steroids during his Major League Baseball career, died yesterday of a heart attack, his agent said.
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Former National League Most Valuable Player Ken Caminiti, who in 2002 admitted he used steroids, died of a heart attack in New York on Sunday, Major League Baseball reported on its Web Site.
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NEW YORK Former National League MVP and admitted steroid user Ken Caminiti has died at age 41. His agent says Caminiti suffered a heart attack in the New York borough of the Bronx on Sunday.
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Rod Allen, lead singer of the Fortunes, dies aged 63 after battling liver cancer, it has been announced.
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Syd Thrift, who spent nearly 50   years in professional baseball, has died following knee   replacement surgery, officials said Tuesday. He was 77.
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Lew Burdette, MVP of the 1957 World Series when he pitched the Milwaukee Braves to their only championship, dies in Winter Garden, Fla. He was 80.
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Rod Beck, an All-Star relief pitcher who notched 286 saves during a 13-year Major League Baseball career, has been found dead at his Phoenix home, police said on Sunday.
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Ken Caminiti, the popular and powerful former National League MVP whose troubled life after baseball included bouts with cocaine and a jail stay, died yesterday at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx.
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Ken Caminiti, the National League&#39;s most valuable player in 1996 who later admitted using steroids during his major-league baseball career, died Sunday.