Baseball great Don Baylor dies at age 68

Don Baylor, a former major league baseball player and manager, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 68. Baylor was the American League MVP in 1979 and made three World Series appearances, earning a title ring with the Minnesota Twins in 1987. Baylor played 19 seasons with six teams and went on to manage the Colorado Rockies for the first six years of the team’s existence, earning Manager of the Year honors in 1995. He later managed the Chicago Cubs. Sports commentator Pedro Gomez told ESPN that Baylor was an imposing figure, “but yet, anybody who came across him saw the teddy bear in him because he was so kind no matter who you were in the game.”