It’s been 13 years and I still remember the day St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Darryl Kile died.
I had turned 11 years old just the month prior and baseball was undoubtedly my first true love. I spent my summers outside, tossing up a baseball to myself, hitting it and running the bases, which, more often than not, were paper plates held down by a rock in the yard.
And as we all know, with love comes heartbreak.
Baseball players were heroes to me. From So Taguchi, who made his debut with St.