This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. Mark Fidrych died this week in an accident on his farm in Massachusetts. He was only 54. The news threw me into a time machine and flashed me back ...

He was 19 when the Detroit Tigers drafted him and barely a high school graduate, having been held back in second and third grade because he couldn’t read. The son of an assistant principal instead ...

Detroit Tigers right-hander Mark Fidrych was just the second rookie to start an MLB All-Star Game, dating back to the game’s inception in 1933. This year, in the 94th edition of the game, we’ll get ...

Mark Fidrych The colorful Fidrych was the talk of baseball in the summer of 1976 with the Detroit Tigers. He talked to the baseball, patted the dirt on the pitcher’s mound and captivated the nation ...

Worcester County district attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said a family friend found Fidrych about 2:30 p.m. Monday beneath a dump truck at his Northborough, Mass., farm about 35 miles west of Boston. He ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, a double All-Star for the Detroit Tigers whose colorful antics on the pitching mound created a sensation during the mid-1970s, has died aged 54. Fidrych, ...