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Single Most Devastating Death In Baseball History
-Bart Giamatti: Dies eight days after banishing Pete Rose even though Giamatti had only been the commissioner for 154 days. Fay Vincent takes over for Giamatti yet the owners (one of them being Bud Selig) decided to kick him out of office about three and a half years later. Soon after Selig takes over as "acting commissioner", we get the worse work stoppage in sports history as the World Series gets canceled for the first time in 90 years.
-Dick Howser: Dies of a brain tumor about a year and a half after managing the Kansas City Royals to their first ever World Championship.
-Darryl Kile: Dies of a heart attack just days after Jack Buck dies. In retrospect, the death of Jack Buck, who at 77 years of age had been ill with lung cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's for some time, wasn't really much of a shock. But Darryl Kile's death came right out of the blue as Jack Buck's son Joe was forced to announce the news on live television.
-Thurman Munson: The first Yankee captain since Lou Gehrig dies while arguably still in his prime just like Gehrig.
-Donnie Moore: Moore kills himself (right in front of his own children no less) three years after giving up the home run to Dave Henderson in the 1986 American League Championship Series (and four years after playing in the All-Star Game).
-Lyman Bostock: Gets murdered (by some accounts, by accident) while on the brink of reaching his full potential.
-Mickey Mantle: Spent his remaining days lecturing young people to not live like him (after Mantle spent years killing himself with alcohol).
-Ray Chapman: Ray Chapman became the only modern major leaguer to have died as a direct result of being hit by a pitch.
-Tony Conigliaro: Conigliaro never really fully recovered after getting hit in the eye and wound up suffering a heart attack at the age of 37. Conigliaro would ultimately die at the age of 45.
-Dick Howser: Dies of a brain tumor about a year and a half after managing the Kansas City Royals to their first ever World Championship.
-Darryl Kile: Dies of a heart attack just days after Jack Buck dies. In retrospect, the death of Jack Buck, who at 77 years of age had been ill with lung cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's for some time, wasn't really much of a shock. But Darryl Kile's death came right out of the blue as Jack Buck's son Joe was forced to announce the news on live television.
-Thurman Munson: The first Yankee captain since Lou Gehrig dies while arguably still in his prime just like Gehrig.
-Donnie Moore: Moore kills himself (right in front of his own children no less) three years after giving up the home run to Dave Henderson in the 1986 American League Championship Series (and four years after playing in the All-Star Game).
-Lyman Bostock: Gets murdered (by some accounts, by accident) while on the brink of reaching his full potential.
-Mickey Mantle: Spent his remaining days lecturing young people to not live like him (after Mantle spent years killing himself with alcohol).
-Ray Chapman: Ray Chapman became the only modern major leaguer to have died as a direct result of being hit by a pitch.
-Tony Conigliaro: Conigliaro never really fully recovered after getting hit in the eye and wound up suffering a heart attack at the age of 37. Conigliaro would ultimately die at the age of 45.
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