This is a downer of a day for baseball, with the tragic death of Nick Adenhart of the Los Angeles Angels.
Baseball is no stranger to tragedy. As the actuarial tables will tell you, get any number of ballplayers or athletes in any other sport and a certain percentage will die unexpectedly. Car wrecks, boating accidents, shootings. They don’t happen often, but when they do, they affect fans of all ages.
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