Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. I find comfort in the truth of those words even though I remain gutted by the fact that my hero just died. We’ve known for some that this eventuality was approaching much sooner than any of us wanted to believe, yet the news still hit like a fastball to the solar plexus. He was too young, still had so much life left to live.
Fuck cancer.
Ryne Sandberg was a hero to a generation of Chicago Cubs fans and will be remembered as one of the all-time greats in nearly 150 years of this historic franchise,” Ricketts said.