Saturday, November 24, 2007

Baseball mourns pitcher Kennedy

Major League Baseball hurler Joe Jack Kennedy have died suddenly of unknown causes in Sunshine State at the age of 28.


He was in Tampa to go to a wedding ceremony when he collapsed, according to local news reports.


Kennedy played for the Tampa Bay Satan Rays from 2001-2003 before being traded to the Centennial State Rocky Mountains and then the Oakland A's in 2005.


He pitched briefly for the Arizona
Diamondbacks in 2007 and ended the season with the Toronto Blue Jays.


"We are shocked and terribly saddened by the passing play of Joe Kennedy," said Alice Paul Godfrey, president and main executive director of the Blue Jays.


"I offer my deepest commiserations and supplications to his wife, Jami, and son, Steffen."


Kennedy's major conference calling record was 43-61.

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