Former Yankee Hideki Irabu found dead

[bigwillq]

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Former New York Yankees starter Hideki Irabu has been found dead in his California home, according to NBCSports.com.

The suspected cause of death is suicide. Irabu was 42.

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http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2011-07-28/hideki-irabu-dead-suicide-new-york-yankees-pitcher


RIP

[IrishBuckeye]

1. guy who wrote a book about him said is 2004 that he thought Irabu suffered from depression...

What do you think of the also-rans involved in the U.S leagues who didn't become as famous or don't have the star quality--Hideki Irabu, Bobby Valentine or Masanori Murakami of the San Francisco Giants?

Mr. Whiting said he knew Hideki Irabu and I liked him a lot. "I think he needs a good psychiatrist," he observed. In his view, Mr. Irabu suffers from depression stemming from feelings of abandonment by his G.I. father: "That's why, when Steinbrenner called him a 'fat pussy toad,' it hurt him, because it brought back those childhood memories."

http://www.japansociety.org/the_meaning_of_ichiro_the_new_wave_from_japan__the_transformatio

[joeybee12]

2. Jesus, only 42...sad

RIP