MIAMI — As the baseball world mourned the death of Jose Fernandez, a beachgoer found a bag containing four baseballs signed by the Marlins 24-year-old pitcher.
WSVN-TV reports a black bag containing Jose Fernandez’s checkbook and four autographed baseballs apparently washed ashore on Miami Beach not far from the site the pitcher’s boat slammed into a jetty early Sunday. Fernandez and two friends were killed.
Ocean Rescue Division Chief Vincent Canosa tells WSVN the bag was given to a lifeguard and that it apparently came from the boat.
Fernandez had been scheduled to start Monday night’s game against the New York Mets.