[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.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Donnie Moore was far from top shape at that time, but a lot of people were very unforgiving and unimpressed by the difficult circumstances he faced.