Brogna returns after battle with cancer

"I couldn't wait to get back," Rico Brogna said. "The normalcy has already helped." NEW YORK -- Rico Brogna, the Angels' player information coach, rejoined the team in the Bronx over the weekend after the biggest scare of his life.

In early May, roughly two months after noticing a growth in his groin, Brogna was diagnosed with testicular cancer. The 45-year-old former first baseman underwent surgery on May 13. Doctors told him the cancer hadn't spread, prompting Brogna to return to the team less than four weeks later.

"This is very sobering, it's immediate, it's gripping," Brogna said prior to Saturday's game at Yankee Stadium. "That phone call you get, it's like when you're a kid and you get…