Farewell to MLB's Greatest

Baseball legend and Minnesota Twins great Kirby Puckett died yesterday of a stroke at the age of 45. Kirby was one of my childhood idols and my favorite baseball player of all time. He brought an uncommon personality and enthusiasum to baseball, with an all around athletic ability, leading the Twins to the world series in 1987 and 1991. Though his career came to an abrupt and early end due to glaucoma in 1996. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2001. A character like this is missed in the baseball community amidst the modern day bulging salaries and steroids cases.

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