Josh Hancock: 1978 - 2007

It’s odd how you process things. My brother called me Sunday morning to let me know that he was coming back in town. He had just made a surprise visit to Lexington from Dallas to propose to his girlfriend. He called me to ask me where to drop off the car he borrowed from Mom and Dad, and to tell me that the Cubs - Cardinals game scheduled for that night was postponed. He off-handedly mentioned that a Cardinals pitcher had been in an accident. The last time the Cardinals postponed a game for something other than weather was in 2002 when Darryl Kile passed away of coronary atherosclerosis. Funny enough, I didn’t think much of it. Why? Heck if I know. A postponed game in Major League Baseball isn’t that big of a deal. It was a few hours later when I started seeing headlines that the enormity of the situation hit me. The Cardinals lost yet another young pitcher. The second time in 5 years.

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