Former major league outfielder Angel Echevarria dies at 48

Washington Post ^ | 02/08/2020

[BenLurkin]

Former major league outfielder Angel Echevarria, who played seven seasons with three different teams, has died. He was 48.

Rutgers, where he set a career home run record that has since been broken, announced his death Saturday but didn’t provide further details.

The Connecticut Post reported Saturday that Echevarria died on Friday at Bridgeport Hospital. The story said his girlfriend, Jazmine Cox, told them he took at fall in his Bridgeport home earlier in the day.

[fso301]

What kind of “fall” in the house kills you??

At a friend's Christmas party, one of the guests had too much to drink and fell backwards to the floor. His head just missed the sharp corner of a marble coffee table. The man was ok but it was a matter of maybe 6 inches and the corner of that table would have punched right through his skull and killed him.

[ridesthemiles]

Right-—

Congress needs to ban GRAVITY !!!!

They are stupid enough to actually write up & present such a bill...

[dp0622]

Is it would have or could have?

I believe very much it could have.

I’m no doctor so what do I know? :)

I’ve been all up in head injury news since this happened now 13 or so long years ago.

It’s amazing what many have survived...and in some cases surviving wasn’t all that much of a blessing...

[dp0622]

I am sorry Dog.

Now that you mention it I have known older people who fell and died in the shower.

It seems like someone so young though..it would be harder.

But not impossible.

I stand corrected.

Again, I lost my pop way back and it’s a painful thing.

I am sorry you lost your father in that way.

I bet he was a great guy and I know you miss him very much.

Great memories are our friend, I’ve found, as I’ve gotten older.

[dp0622]

Yeah I got a lot of replies and now I remember some old folks that died falling in the bathroom.

I stand corrected.

[Mears]

At my age Fall is the new F word.

[dp0622]

:( Be careful!!

The shower does a lot of people in!

I took showers without a floor mat once for a little while...was too lazy to get a new one.

It was like taking a shower on ice.

[Mears]

I like you too much to call you a Dummy but.......................🤪.

[M1903A1]

Here’s a famous example...I vaguely remember this on the news when it happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holden

[xp38]

Personal pictures have to be on some website address to be able to post them here on FR. There are picture hosting websites that can work but that is the first step. Sending your photo to someone else here would only work if they can get that photo onto such a website. I’m not an expert and have posted 1 or 2 shots like that but I don’t know how long they are kept on the hosting websites.

[dp0622]

If it’s not just copy and paste i’m out! :)

[xp38]

If you insist

Yeah I know sort of bad taste for a baseball player dying thread

[Hot Tabasco]

I feel down two sets of cement stairs in a Manhattan Subway.

So how old were you when that happened?

[dp0622]

lol