Former third baseman of the Chicago Cubs Ron Santo, by his former teammates Ernie Banks (left) and Billy Williams (R) during a ceremony to retire the uniform number of 10 Santo before a game against the Pirates Pittsburgh 28th September 2003 Wrigley Field in Chicago combined. (Jonathan Daniel / Getty Images)
(CBS / AP) Ron Santo, who fought for juvenile diabetes losers stardom with the Chicago Cubs and broadcaster, has spent several years of Famous Players, who died Thursday. He died of complications of bladder cancer in a hospital in Arizona at age 70.
"Ronnie will forever remain the heart and soul of the Cubs fans," Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said in a statement released Friday.
Santo, nine-time All-Star in his 15-year career, was widely considered one of the best players never to make the Hall of Fame. The quiet sadness with which he met year after year, the articles he had not been included, has helped consolidate its relationship with the fans.
But it was just like the one shown in the major leagues was a personal triumph for Santo, a diagnosis of diabetes in 1959 at the edge of his debut with the Cubs.
"I was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 18 years," said Saint-Chicago Sun-Times in 1990, New York Times. "I did not know what it was, so I went to the library and saw I still remember the feeling I had when I read the description. Life expectancy of a diabetic child insulin-dependent. 25 years, also said it would be blindness kidney failure and hardening of the arteries of the case. At that moment I told myself, 'I will fight this thing and beat him. "That's how point and I saw a big ball players in the league wanted. "
Santo began treatment with insulin, but concealed his illness for years because they feared would derail his career, according to the Times.
The disease has a heavy toll on Santo. After retiring, he suffered a heart attack and underwent heart surgery and bladder, according to the Times. His legs were amputated in 2001 and 2002.
But he remained popular for its efforts to raise funds for diabetes and its work in the radio booth where he said that no one rooted harder for the Cubs - and nobody was more difficult when they lost.
Santo moaning "Oh schööön!" and "It's bad," when something goes wrong, the Cubs, sometimes just minutes after he yelled: "Yes, yes, or" All Right! "was part of team tradition as" traps "L year came shortly after year.
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