Tommy Greene did not know where his life would lead in 2010 after his wife, Lorie, succumbed to cancer. The former Phillies pitcher said he was in a dark place. And then Darren Daulton stepped in.
“He saved my life,” Greene said Monday afternoon as he remembered Daulton, 55, who died Sunday after a four-year battle with brain cancer.
Daulton, who bonded with Greene during that wild 1993 season, ran into Wendy Darling shortly after Greene’s wife died. Greene and Darling had met in 1986 during Greene’s first spring training. Daulton and Darling’s conversation soon turned to Greene.