A Death in the Baseball Family

Is the title of an article in Sports Illustrated this week on the death back in July of a great minor league player with a few bumps in the majors, Mike Coolbaugh. I really am recommending this as a must read article on this great man that had such unlucky situations that has happened to him during the course of his playing career, and the way he died. In short so you all can go out and read it, Coolbaugh is a 35-year-old baseball guy that had injuries that forced him to give up on this playing days and he figured to stay with the game that he loved and be the hitting coach for the Tulsa Drillers, the Colorado Rockies Double A team. Husband and father of two sons, Coolbaugh just started being the first base coach and on one terrible night Tino Sanchez, of the same team, crushed a 3-1 pitch foul heading right at Coolbaugh and from what doctors say, once the ball struck his head he was gone. There is a lot more to the article like what are the chances of this really happening. Like, Sanchez having a terrible year and only getting into the game late because the other team decided to change pitchers because one needed the work. And how, Sanchez actually should have walked on the forth pitch of the at-bat, from what the game announcers said the 3-0 pitch was a ball, and the umpire really stretched the strike zone for that pitch. Finally, that if the ball had hit Coolbaugh a hair to the left or a hair to the right of his head that he would have worse case a concussion. So if ya'll can find this article and read it!