On the third day of the 1993 season, Dave Hollins went 0 for 5 with four strikeouts. Hollins, the third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, would play about a thousand games in the major leagues, and that was his worst. He brooded in the Astrodome clubhouse after the game, even though the Phillies had swept the series.
Hollins kept to himself on the flight home. Darren Daulton, the veteran catcher and team leader, said nothing to him. Before the next game, though, Daulton was waiting for Hollins in the clubhouse.
“He was staring me down,” Hollins said on Monday, a day after Daulton died of brain cancer at age 55.