Nick Cafardo, longtime Boston Globe baseball writer, dies at 62

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Longtime Boston Globe baseball writer Nick Cafardo has died after collapsing at the team's spring training ballpark.

The newspaper said Cafardo had an embolism Thursday and Red Sox medical staff was unable to revive him.

He was 62.

Nick Cafardo, our widely respected baseball columnist, died Thursday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 62.

We will miss him dearly.https://t.co/vHTFm5cq0W pic.twitter.com/FjhYvm3Mrf

— Boston Globe Sports (@BGlobeSports) February 21, 2019Cafardo joined the Globe in 1989 and covered the Red Sox before switching to the New England Patriots in time for the team's first NFL championship in 2001. He returned to baseball and has covered the Red Sox and the major…