Oscar Taveras, Rising MLB Star, Dies in Car Crash at Age 22

SAN FRANCISCO — Had his St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants in the National League Championship Series, instead of lost four games to one, 22-year-old Oscar Taveras could have been playing in the World Series this weekend. The outfielder was young, and didn't have much experience, but was a major talent of whom eventual greatness was expected, if not assumed

But the Cardinals didn't win that round, and the Giants are in the World Series, and so Taveras had returned home to his native Domincan Republic. He died there in an auto accident that also killed his girlfriend on Saturday afternoon, according to multiple reports. But — in a surreal and tragic twist — the news didn't break until Sunday night, just as the Giants and Kansas City Royals had begun to play Game 5 of the World Series that Taveras himself so easily could have been in Read more...

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