yes--that was Oscar Taveras... he died during the 2014 World Series when the SF Giants were up against, kind of ironically, the KS Royals--Ventura's team... the Giants had eliminated the Cardinals in the NL Pennant Championship... i remember thinking, had the Cardinals won, they would have been in the World Series and Taveras would not have been in the Dominican Republic... and he would not have died... :(