[Colonel Kangaroo]

Gary Speed, a Welsh soccer player about the same age as Seau, committed suicide last fall. The thinking in Speed's case was that it was caused by depression due to the end of his sporting career.

Then there's the well-known sad case of relief pitcher Donnie Moore's suicide a few months after his baseball career ended.

[Goldsborough]

Then there's the well-known sad case of relief pitcher Donnie Moore's suicide a few months after his baseball career ended.

Donnie Moore never got over blowing a save in Game Five of the 1986 ALCS that would have sent the California Angels to their first World Series to face the Mets. It wasn't even really his fault, as Gene Mauch's use of his bullpen was pretty abysmal, running his closer, whom he had over used all season, out there for three full innings when the forkballer was really only good for two at the most.

[dfwgator]

Gary Speed, a Welsh soccer player about the same age as Seau, committed suicide last fall. The thinking in Speed's case was that it was caused by depression due to the end of his sporting career

That seems weird considering Speed was, at the time of his suicide, the Manager of the Welsh National Team, so certainly he still was very involved in the game.