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Mar 9, 2021 5:47 AM
Left-handed pitcher Rheal Cormier passed away Monday from cancer. He spent 16 years in major league baseball.
(photo from Baseball New Brunswick)
Canadian pitcher Rheal Cormier passed away on Monday at the age of 53 following a battle with cancer.
The left-handed pitcher was born in Saint-André-LeBlanc near Cap-Pele and spent 16 years in the majors with St. Louis, Montreal, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and two stints with the Boston Red Sox.
His Phillies teammate, Jim Thome, described the time they played together as “unforgettable.”
While Dan Plesac said he made everyone he played with better and “keep throwing that 3-2 splitter in heaven.”
Former 16-year major league relief pitcher Rheal Cormier died of cancer on Monday, the Philadelphia Phillies announced. He was 53. Cormier pitched for.
PHILADELPHIA Rheal Cormier, the durable left-hander who spent 16 seasons in the majors and remarkably pitched in the Olympics before and after his time in the big leagues, died Monday. He was 53. The Philadelphia Phillies said Cormier died of cancer at his home in New Brunswick, Canada. Cormier owned a neat nook in Phillies history: He was the winning pitcher in the final
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The Philadelphia Phillies announced Rheal Cormier, the left-hander who spent 16 seasons in the majors, has died of cancer at age 53 of cancer.
Cormier was a star pitcher at CCRI and once lived in a third-floor apartment in Woonsocket during his college career.
At CCRI he earned All-American honors in 1987 and 1988.
One of his biggest achievement was how well he pitched in the Olympics before and after his time in the big leagues,
According to ESPN:
Cormier owned a neat nook in Phillies history: He was the winning pitcher in the final game that Philadelphia won at Veterans Stadium in 2003, and also was the winner in the first game the Phils won after moving into Citizens Bank Park in 2004.