Former Angels All-Star pitcher Clyde Wright got to a point a few weeks ago when he could have been afraid to answer the telephone.
He’s a talker, a baseball raconteur and a jokester always ready with a one-liner and a wisecrack delivered with his Tennessee twang. But there wasn’t anything funny about the news that he kept hearing about another teammate or friend passing away or falling ill.
Ed Sukla, Wright’s Angels teammate in 1966, died in Irvine on Sept. 24 at the age of 72. Cy Young winner Dean Chance, an Angel from 1961-66 who was at the ballpark in August to be inducted into the Angels Hall of Fame, died of a heart attack on Oct.