Former Sox pitcher Josh Hancock dies in car crash

[TheKilo]

Josh Hancock, 29.

 

Per ESPN.

[Beckett95]

http://www.nbcsports.com/mlb/1424054/detail.html

 

Cardinals and Cubs game postponed tonight

[riverside sluggers]

How horrible My thoughts are with his teammates and family

 

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[jacksonianmarch]

wow, RIP kid.

[Thumper]

First Lidle, now Hancock.

 

Sad. That's no way anyone should go out.

 

RIP.

[schillingouttheks]

RIP

[riverside sluggers]

Its just been anounced on NESN that his car had collided with a tow truck in the lft lane. He was going home from a Cardinals game in which he pitched 3 innings of relief, you just never know when your times is up. very sad

[mosox]

It's also now being being reported that he had an accident a couple of days before at 5:30 am, and was fined for being late to the park and apparently "hung over".

 

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/E60CF4326FCA8483862572CE00145F0A?OpenDocument

 

If this guy had a problem, I wonder what the Cards' responsibility is in all of this. It seems LaRussa is already being very defensive.

[TheKilo]

Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock was in a potentially serious traffic accident less than three days before the one that took his life Sunday, according to police reports.

 

Hancock walked away from that early Thursday morning crash uninjured, but he was late for the team's afternoon game a few hours later. The club and several teammates said he had overslept.

 

But sources say he was late because he was hung over.

 

^^From mosox's link.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2854743

 

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on Monday, however, that a couple in a bar on the night Hancock died overheard the pitcher telling an ESPN radio personality that he "had spent all night drinking," and that's why he was late for the Thursday game.

 

Seems like a recurring issue.

[Ray10]

Wow tragic story RIP Josh Hancock you will be missed by everyone. I wish all his friends and family all the best in this rough time they are going through.