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Word that Steve Palermo was seriously ill had been quietly circulating through the baseball community for months, so word of his passing on Sunday didn’t come as a shock.
It did, however, devastate those who knew this good man, who showed courage not only in his battle with lung cancer but the partial paralysis he suffered from a gunshot wound in 1991.
Palermo was on his way to becoming one of the game’s all-time great umpires before taking a bullet breaking up a robbery outside a Dallas restaurant.