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For the third time in the last month, the baseball world lost one of its all-time legends. Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson died Friday at the age of 84.
The longtime St. Louis Cardinals hurler was in hospice care fighting pancreatic cancer, reports Rick Hummel of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Gibson’s passing comes within a month of the deaths of two other Hall of Famers, fellow Cardinals great Lou Brock and New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver, both in early September.
The right-hander from Omaha, Nebraska spent his entire 17-season career with the Cardinals, from 1959 to 1975.