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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, May 15, 2022Ex-Mets and Phillies pitcher dies at 57, joining 5 other ex-Phillies to die of brain cancer recently
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Posted: May 15, 2022 at 02:36 PM | 28 comment(s)
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1. The Duke Posted: May 15, 2022 at 04:21 PM (#6076819)Some have argued artificial turf had carcinogens. The Royals have had some brain cancer too - Brett, Dick Howser, Dan Quisenberry, Bob Tufts. Gary Carter had brain cancer - played on turf at the Big O. Still seems like too small a sample size to draw conclusions from IMO, but I don't really know.
At a place where I worked, a guy got Hodgkins (survived). The guy who took over his office a couple of years later got Hodgkins (survived). Another guy nearby got full-blown skin cancer (fatal). All in their 30s and early 40s, the cases all over about a 4-5 year period. As far as I know, everything's been fine since then but it was pretty freaky. We also had two guys in their 50s have strokes and one in his 60s had a serious heart attack (not exactly a surprise), all survived but it was a heavy toll on a place with 15-20 staff.
RIP. I remember West as part of the package that the Mets traded to Minnesota for Frank Viola. Viola was good for the Mets, producing 10 WAR in two-and-a-half seasons, but the guys Minnesota got put up 35 WAR for that organization. But that was all Rick Aguilera and Kevin Tapani; West was basically replacement level for them and had all of his good seasons in Philly.
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that was around the same time the rumor about Hoffa being buried in the end zone arose. gave new meaning to the term 'coffin corner'
The Sports Complex was built on top of a swamp (wetlands), not a landfill.
well, mostly. it also replaced some warehouses, some homes, a trucking terminal - and yes, some garbage dumps. just enough to get some people to buy into the idea.
It might be Lenny Dykstra's fault--Van Slyke did say center field at the Vet was like a toxic waste dump.
Insert joke about New Jersey...
Spider Lockhart was another NYG who died of cancer at 43.
I saw the Dad the morning after the Giants' first Super Bowl win in Pasadena. he still had confetti in his hair from the stadium celebration (he had taken a redeye home).
A reasonable speculation for virtually any negative story.
Always apply Occam's razor. In this case, one must conclude that Philadelphia rots brains.
Ask Hoffa.
This article sums it up very well. Here's the meat of it:
There's little room for doubt that there are some carcinogenic environmental factors at work in various workplaces. Hard to prove definitively, though. If they definitively found some link at an all-purpose, synthetic turf stadium built in the late 60s/early 70s, it wouldn't be remotely surprising.
(*) And serious talk it, obviously. It's a tragic roll.
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