Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican-born phenom for the Los Angeles Dodgers who impressed “Fernandomania” whereas successful the NL Cy Younger Award and Rookie of the Yr in 1981, has died. He was 63.
The staff stated he died Tuesday evening at a Los Angeles hospital, however didn’t present the trigger or different particulars.
His demise comes because the Dodgers put together to open the World Collection on Friday evening at house in opposition to the New York Yankees.
Valenzuela had left his colour commentator job on the Dodgers’ Spanish-language tv broadcast in September with out rationalization. He was reported to have been hospitalized earlier this month. His job saved him as a daily at Dodger Stadium, the place he held court docket within the press field eating room earlier than video games and remained fashionable with followers who sought him out for images and autographs.
Valenzuela was some of the dominant gamers of his period and a wildly fashionable determine within the Eighties, though he was by no means elected to the Baseball Corridor of Fame. Nevertheless, he’s a part of Cooperstown, which options a number of artifacts together with a signed ball from his no-hitter in 1990.
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