Pitcher Rod Beck found dead at home
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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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The 28-year-old actor was found dead in his Manhattan home.
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MONTROSE - The 14-year-old son of NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol was presumed dead Monday after a fiery jet crash that killed two crewmen and injured the executive and his older son.
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Troubled former baseball star Ken Caminiti, the first major league player to admit he used steroids in his playing days, died of an overdose of cocaine and opiates, the medical examiner ruled Monday.
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1920 &#151; Shortstop Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head with pitch in the fifth inning by New York's Carl Mays. Chapman suffered a fractured skull and died the next day. It is the only field fatality in major league history.
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TORONTO (CP) - The Toronto Blue Jays have confirmed the death of Doug Ault, hitting hero of the first Jays game in franchise history.
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Bill France Jr., who transformed NASCAR from a small Southern sport into a billion-dollar conglomerate during his 31 years as chairman, died Monday at his Daytona Beach, Fla., home. He was 74.
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Hank Bauer, the tough ex-Marine who set a World Series record with a 17-game hitting streak for the New York Yankees and later managed the Baltimore Orioles to the 1966 title, died Friday. He was 84. Bauer died in the Kansas City area, where he made his home, Yankees spokesman Jason Zillo said.
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Austrian authorities have discovered the body of a man who apparently died at home in bed five years ago, a Vienna newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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The news on East and West Coasts this week reflected the fragility of hope based on an aging pitcherÂs arm and a young pitcherÂs value.
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Rolland Mays Stiles, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, died on Sunday at the age of 100 in a nursing home in St Louis, the Post-Dispatch newspaper reported on Monday.
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John Cerutti, a former Toronto pitcher and current Blue Jays television announcer, was found dead in his hotel room Sunday morning, the team said.
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Doug Ault, who hit two home runs in the first game in Toronto Blue Jays history in 1977, died at 54.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Ken Burkhart, a former big league pitcher and umpire who made one of the most disputed calls in World Series history, has died.
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A minor league baseball coach died less than an hour after he was hit on the head by a batted ball during a Texas League game, the Tulsa World newspaper reported on Monday.
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LONDON: Former England and Liverpool captain Emlyn Hughes, right, has died from a brain tumour aged 57. Hughes had been battling the illness for the last 15 months but deteriorated in the last few days, his wife Barbara said.
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Steve Barber, the first 20-game winner in modern Baltimore Orioles history and the losing pitcher in one of baseball's wildest no-hitters, has died. He was 67.