1 of 3 | San Diego Padres’ 3rd baseman Sean Burroughs makes a leaping catch for the out on a baseball hit by St. Louis Cardinals’ Edgar Renteria in the seventh inning at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on July 12,2003 Burroughs passedaway Friday at age43 File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
May 11 (UPI) — Olympic gold medalist and first-round draft choice in the MLB Sean Burroughs passedaway unexpectedly after dropping his child off for a Little League videogame in Long Beach, Calif., the league revealed. He was 43.
Burroughs passedaway Friday after he was discovered unconscious next to his car in the parking lot, Long Beach Little League President Doug Wittman, toldThe Long Beach Sun.
Burroughs’ mom, Debbie, informed the paper he passedaway of heart arrest.
After retiring from the MLB in 2012, Burroughs coached his kid in the Long Beach Little League, which formally revealed his death in an Instagram post.
“I have had the opportunity of training with Sean for the past 2 years, and he constantly came with a enjoyable and friendly mindset the kids were drawn to, a wealth of baseball understanding that might get any kid out of a batting rut and humbleness worth imitating,” Wittman stated in the post.
“To state this is a big loss is an understatement.”
Burroughs, himself, started his baseball profession with the Long Beach All-Stars group, winning back-to-back Little League World Series titles in 1992 and1993
The San Diego Padres prepared Burroughs ninth total in the 1998 draft. He played 7 seasons in the league, consistingof stints with the Tampa Bay Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks and Minnesota Twins. He retired from the MLB with a profession .278 batting typical, 12 home runs and 143 runs batted in.
In 2000, he won an Olympic gold medal with Team USA at the Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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