The lasting image many of us will have of Darren Daulton is his reaction to catching Mitch Williams’ final pitch in Game 6 of the 1993 National League Championship Series, racing out to the mound to embrace a leaping Wild Thing as the team celebrated their first trip to the Fall Classic in a decade.
The larger-than-life catcher named “Dutch,” the undisputed leader of that Macho Row gang, lost his long battle with brain cancer on Sunday night. He was just 55.
In July of 2013, Daulton was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.