April 19, 2024 7:13 pm
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The brain cancer that keeps killing baseball players

Mickey Morandini, a Phillies coach, sitting in the dugout Thursday near a jersey honoring Darren Daulton, who died of brain cancer on Aug. 6. Morandini, a teammate of Daulton’s in the 1990s, is among former Phillies who have expressed concern about the number of their baseball contemporaries who have died of brain cancer. /Credit Mitchell Leff/Getty Images

By Jeré Longman | The New York Times

PHILADELPHIA — Since Darren Daulton succumbed to brain cancer on Aug. 6, heartfelt tributes have honored the way he led a raucous Phillies team to the World Series in 1993.

And unanswered questions have surfaced about the way he died.

Daulton and several prominent contemporaries in baseball — including at least three other Phillies who played at Veterans Stadium, the team’s home from 1971 to 2003 — have died of glioblastoma, according to news media accounts. It is considered the most aggressive and frequently diagnosed form of malignant brain tumor.

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