Sean Burroughs, a winner of the Little League World Series, a 2000 Olympic gold medalist and a first-round pick in the MLB draft, has died at the age of 43.
that Burroughs"tragically passed away" Thursday afternoon. His mother, Debbie, told the Southern California News Group that the cause of death was cardiac arrest.
"It was very shocking," Wittman told The Orange County Register."It's a real sense of family at Long Beach Little League. So when we lose one of our own, it hurts." Burroughs threw back-to-back no-hitters to help Long Beach to the consecutive Little League championships then went on to star at Long Beach Wilson High.in 1998. The third baseman made his major league debut in April 2002, recorded the first walk-off hit for the Padres in Petco Park history in 2004 and was out of baseball in 2007 before returning to play from 2011 to 2012.
He moved back into his childhood home, under the house rules, and worked himself back into baseball shape.Burroughs played 79 games with the independent Long Island Ducks , winning the Atlantic League batting title in 2015.
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