New York Yankees OF Claudell Washington (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
New York Yankees outfielder Claudell Washington has passed away.
The Yankees family has received some sad news, entirely unrelated to the depressing proceedings dominating the MLB discourse these days.
Outfielder Claudell Washington, who was Rickey Henderson’s running mate in the New York outfield in the late ’80s, has passed away at the age of 65, following a long battle with illness. He joins Bob Watson as a member of the Yankees family we’ve lost in recent weeks.
Though most Yankee fans will remember Washington as one of the bastions of a forgettable era of New York baseball, he arrived with the NYY at the tail end of a very strong career that began in Oakland at the age of 19.