Topic: Mark Fidrych

AP News | 2009-12-24 04:02:30
With echoes of violence and crackling gunfire, sports says goodbye to some of its best in 2009

Sports in 2009 looked down the barrel of a gun. From Tennessee to Georgia to Nicaragua, gunfire crackled in July. The causes differed — a romance gone wrong, a robbery botched, a self-inflicted wound — but the outcome did not. A gun was the weapon ...

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AP News | 2009-06-20 04:34:38
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AP News | 2009-04-16 16:59:36
Mass. ME says Fidrych suffocated when his clothes became entangled in truck's moving parts

Former All-Star pitcher Mark Fidrych suffocated after his clothes became entangled with a spinning part on the truck he was working on, Massachusetts authorities said Thursday. The state medical examiner's office ruled the death an accident, according to a release from the Worcester District ...

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AP News | 2009-04-15 19:48:08
Tigers pay tribute to the late Mark Fidrych before game against White Sox

The Detroit Tigers paid tribute to Mark Fidrych with a moment of silence and a special video before Wednesday's game against the Chicago White Sox. The 54-year-old Fidrych, who captured the nation's imagination during his rookie of the year season in 1976, died Monday in ...

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