The accidental death of Mark Fidrych last week should serve as an unhappy reminder that we have somehow lost our way in professional sports; that we have forgotten how to have fun. If Fidrych acted ...

While Mark Fidrych did not have a longcareer in the big leagues, he made the most of it, and instantly became a fan-favorite. He played for the Detroit Tigers from 1976 to 1980 before hanging up the ...

This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. Mark Fidrych died this week in an accident on his farm in Massachusetts. He was only 54. The news threw me into a time machine and flashed me back ...

DETROIT >> It could have just as easily been a synopsis of her late husband’s all-too-brief, yet profoundly meaningful life, as it was a reaction to the film that documented his meteoric rise and fall ...

The family of former Major League pitcher Mark Fidrych has filed a lawsuit in connection with his accidental death in 2009.Fidrych was working on his Mack truck at his home in Northborough when his ...

BOSTON - Mark "the Bird" Fidrych, the fun-loving pitcher who baffled hitters for one All-Star season and entertained fans with his antics, was found dead Monday in an apparent accident at his farm. He ...

People who never saw Mark Fidrych will never understand. How sad, because people who saw him find him almost impossible to describe. There were the numbers, cold hard facts that attest to one of the ...

NORTHBOROUGH — Mark Fidrych burned bright during his short time in the spotlight as a pitching sensation in the 1970s but the flame only dimmed slightly when he returned home to Northborough as a ...

The death of former Major League Baseball pitcher Mark Fidrych was not the fault of the truck manufacturing companies being sued by his widow, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. Fidrych, a ...

WORCESTER, Mass. — The state Supreme Judicial Court has upheld rulings in favor of the truck manufacturer and the maker of a piece of truck equipment in a wrongful death suit filed by the widow of ...

The story begins at Chet’s Diner in Northborough, Mass. It begins with Mark Fidrych’s friends and family watching the most famous game he pitched, on June 28, 1976, against the New York Yankees at ...