BREAKING: Minor League Coach Dies After Getting Hit With Ball

McLovin posted 7/23/2007 from nyjerplease.blogharbor.com [flag]

Tulsa Drillers coach Mike Coolbaugh died Sunday night after being struck in the head by a line drive as he stood in the first-base coach's box during a Texas League game with the Arkansas Travelers, police said. The game was suspended in the ninth inning after Coolbaugh was struck by a hard-hit foul ball off the bat of Tino Sanchez and taken to Baptist Medical Center-North Little ... [link]

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yanksup

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Horrible news. May he Rest In Peace.

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Minor League Coach Dies After Getting Hit With Ball
Published 7/23/2007 by Luke Halpert at EPIC CARNIVAL | SPORTS NEWS WITH A TWIST
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Drillers Coach Killed By Foul Ball
Published 7/23/2007 by Sooze at Babes Love Baseball
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You Create the Caption #46
Published 7/23/2007 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... A Minor League Coach is dead after getting hit by a ball (Nyjer Please) ...

Is Mike Coolbaugh's Death a Wake-Up Call?
Published 7/24/2007 by theangryt at EPIC CARNIVAL | SPORTS NEWS WITH A TWIST
... As you are probably aware, a Minor League baseball coach was killed Sunday night by a line drive that struck his head while he was coaching first base. Mike Coolbaugh, 35, was a hitting coach for the Tulsa Drillers, the AA minor league team of the Colorado Rockies. ...

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