- Mario Encarnacion
Mario Encarnacion (
September 24 ,1975 -October 3 ,2005 ) was abaseball outfielder born in Bani,Dominican Republic . He played for theColorado Rockies andChicago Cubs for a brief duration—23 games from by|2001 to by|2002.He had begun playing for the
Macoto Cobras of theChinese Professional Baseball League inTaiwan since 2005. He set a CPBL record by hitting two home runs in his first two at-bats in the league. On October 3, he was found dead in his team dormitory room.Earlier in the season, he was briefly suspended for testing positive for
steroids , leading to speculation regarding the role of drugs in his death. [Chang, Richard. [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/10/04/2003274373 Baseball player found dead in dormitory room] . Taipei Times, October 4, 2005.] It had also been reported that he had been suffering from a bout ofgastroenteritis for several weeks prior to his death. [ [http://english.www.gov.tw/TaiwanHeadlines/index.jsp?recordid=86574 Cobras' star Encarnacion found dead] . Taiwan News, October 4, 2005.] Autopsy reports later showed that he had died from a congenital medical condition. [ [http://asianbb.sabr.org/newsletters/asian%20newsletter%204.pdf SABR Asian Baseball Committee Newsletter] , Vol. 3 No. 2. December 2005.]References
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