ST. LOUIS -- Bruce Sutter, a Hall of Fame reliever and the 1979 Cy Young winner, has died. He was 69.
The Baseball Hall of Fame said Sutter died Thursday in Cartersville, Georgia. The Sutter family did not provide a cause of death in its statement, which was released Friday.
"All our father ever wanted to be remembered as was being a great teammate, but he was so much more than that," it said. "He was also a great husband to our mother for 50 (years), he was a great father and grandfather and he was a great friend.