Sean Burroughs, Olympic gold medalist, Little League World Series champion and former MLB Player, dies at 43

CNN ^ | 5/11/24 | Wayne Sterling

[DallasBiff]

Sean Burroughs, a 2000 Olympic gold medalist, Little League World Series winner and former first round MLB pick, died Thursday, the California-based Long Beach Little League organization announced Friday. He was 43.

Burroughs died of a cardiac arrest, his mother, Debbie, told the Southern California News Group via text, the San Bernardino Sun reported.

According to Doug Wittman, Long Beach Little League president, Burroughs was found unresponsive next to his vehicle at the Long Beach complex after dropping his son off for a game Thursday, The Sun reported.

[DallasBiff]

RIP and sympathies to the family.

I know, but there an elephant in the room, although Jim Fixx, a best selling author on running, died of a sudden heart attack in 1984.

[PGalt]

Condolences to family and friends of Sean Buroughs.

[lee martell]

Vaxxed?

[jimfree]

Fixx died of a heart attack at 52. He tried to run away from heart disease and was a bit successful. His father died of a second heart attack at 43. What Fixx did not do was get screened. It’s possible one of the available treatments might have extended his run.

[bray]

Not Safe and Effective.

[erlayman]

History and exposure to drugs may be part of it but this is happening too often at a ridiculously young age.

[9YearLurker]

Fixx was also a decade older and had other issues.

But this is playing out all too often.

[FLNittany]

I remember Sean and his team in Williamsport.

RIP Sean. You did great things.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Global warming?

[ifinnegan]

Jeff Burroughs son if I recall correctly.

[kiryandil]

Burroughs, who died Thursday at age 43 from cardiac arrest, overcame a drug addiction that fueled a descent into what the ex-Padres third baseman described as a hallucination-filled, wretched existence from 2008-10.

Scavenging garbage cans for food and moving from one seedy Las Vegas motel to another, Burroughs may have died if not for family members, substance-abuse workers and others who rescued him...

[alancarp]

Your recall is perfect.

[ducttape45]

Sympathies to the family.

[DallasBiff]

Burroughs, who died Thursday at age 43 from cardiac arrest, overcame a drug addiction that fueled a descent into what the ex-Padres third baseman described as a hallucination-filled, wretched existence from 2008-10.

That was nowhere in the article AI bot.

[fella]

The forbidden question.

Soon just asking it will be a hate crime against the deep state.

[jjotto]

Sean Burroughs told his own story to ESPN in 2011.

https://www.espn.ph/mlb/story/_/id/40121064/ex-infielder-sean-burroughs-dies-was-coaching-little-league

[darkangel82]

First LLWS I watched on TV

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Jim Fixx always comes to mind in these situations. That one and this one are real shockers.

[mmichaels1970]

died Thursday, the California-based Long Beach Little League organization announced Friday.

Do little leagues normally do death announcements? Seems odd.

Anyhow, condolences to his family and friends.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Burroughs gave several interviews where he described his drug use. On top of that many MLB players of his era were using steroids. Hard to be sure what killed him but if I had that history I wouldn’t get near the clot shot with a ten foot pole.