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Top 25 Baseball Stories of the Decade — No. 6: The Deaths of Young Players

We’re a few short days away from the dawn of the 2020s. So, instead of counting down the Top 25 stories of the year, we’re taking a look at the top 25 baseball stories of the past decade.

Some of them took place on the field, some of them off the field and some of them were more akin to tabloid drama. No matter where the story broke, however, these were the stories baseball fans were talking about most over the past ten years.

Next up: number 6: The Deaths of Young Players

Baseball, sadly, has always had to endure the deaths of players in the middle of their careers and in what should’ve been the primes of their lives.