Monday, October 27, 2014

Cardinal player Oscar Taveras dies at 22



It’s so sad! The St. Louis Cardinal Baseball player Oscar Taveras has died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. He was 22. 

The news came; there is an auto accident in which his girlfriend also killed on Saturday afternoon. But the news released until Sunday night just after Gaints and Royals had started to play the game 5 of the World Series. 

The 22 year old Taveras played his final game of the World Series at AT&T Park on October 16 in the fifth game of the National League Championship Series. The player was talented but the cardinals did not win that round and the giants are in the World Series so the Taveras returned to his native Dominican Republic.      

Cardinals General Manager John Mozeliak said in a statement. “I first met Oscar when he was 16 years old and will forever remember him as a wonderful young man who was a gifted athlete with an infectious love for life who lived every day to the fullest.” 

Taveras had appeared in 80 games for the cardinals and ranked by the no. 3 prospects in the game before starting this season.

Cardinal fans are paying tribute to great player and also started a memorial for Oscar at the foot of Stan Musial's statue outside Busch Stadium. 

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