The Boston Globe and the baseball world in general suffered a devastating loss Thursday as longtime baseball writer Nick Cafardo died after collapsing at the Red Sox facility in Fort Myers, Fla.
He was 62 years old.
Cafardo, who joined the Globe in 1989 and covered the Red Sox for a majority of those years, was at the JetBlue Park on his day off Thurdsay when he collapsed near the team’s clubhouse and died of an embolism after the team’s medical staff was unable to revive him.
The team issued the following statement:
The Red Sox, whose owner, John Henry, also owns the Globe, said in a statement Thursday that the team was “saddened” by Cafardo’s death.
“For over three decades, Nick was a fixture at Fenway Park and throughout ballparks across the country,” the statement read. “His coverage was as consistent as the game itself. His opinions on the Red Sox and the most pressing issues facing Major League Baseball were a constant, particularly through the prominent Sunday baseball notes column in the Boston Globe.
“The Cafardo family will always be a part of the Boston baseball family, and the Red Sox will honor Nick’s legacy at the appropriate time.”
The MLB world and many of his colleagues reacted to the shocking news on Twitter:
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