MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Last summer’s tragic boating accident that took the life of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and two other men is still fresh in the minds of many south Floridians.
Fernandez was just 24 when he died.
Already one of the top pitchers in baseball, Fernandez was entering the prime years of his career.
Monday would have been Fernandez’s 25th birthday.
His mother Maritza Fernandez Gomez visited the crash site to mark the occasion, spray painting several massages to her son on the rocks of the Jetty on Miami Beach.