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Baseball-playing son of former A’s player and coach receives second cancer diagnosis

In 2006 Chris Duncan began the baseball season in the minor leagues for the seventh consecutive season. The brutal truth: Few baseball prospects languish for seven seasons in the minors. You typically move up or move out.

Somebody must have known something.

The Cardinals had a good thing going that season until injuries began to ravage the lineup. Duncan, son of Dave Duncan, a former A’s player and Tony La Russa’s pitching coach with the White Sox, A’s and Cardinals, was summoned to the big club. He homered in his first major league game that year. He wound up with 22 home runs (20 in the second half of the season) and 43 RBI, with a .