Don Baylor, an Orioles player from 1970 to 1975 who later become a major league MVP, manager and coach, died Monday of complications from multiple myeloma. He was 68.
"Don passed from this earth with the same fierce dignity with which he played the game and lived his life," his wife, Rebecca, said in a statement. His son, Don, Jr., first confirmed the death to Baylor's hometown paper, the Austin American Statesman.
An Orioles second-round draft pick in 1967, Baylor climbed through the farm system before joining the team in 1970 for the first of his 19 major league seasons.