[mhking]

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch site:

KMOX reports Darryl Kile is dead

By the Post-Dispatch Online Sports Staff
06/22/2002 01:54 PM

Darryl Kile, in the final regular-season game of 2001.

The station did not have details of the death when it aired the report by sportscaster Tom Ackerman at approximately 2 p.m.

The Cardinals-Chicago Cubs game, scheduled to begin at 2:20 p.m., has been canceled.

Cubs catcher and player representative Joe Girardi made the announcement to the sold-out crowd at Wrigley Field, saying that there had been a "tragedy in the Cardinals family" and asking the fans to "say a prayer for the St. Louis Cardinals and their family."

The Cardinals are expected to make an announcement soon.

[Lazamataz]

I'm not much of a baseball fan but this is weird. Tell everyone before they make it to the field, for example. Death in a hotel room .... drugs?