BOSTON - Former All-Star pitcher Mark "the Bird" Fidrych was found dead in an apparent accident at his farm. He was 54. 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. He appeared to be working on the truck, Early said.
NEW YORK Maybe this is all you need to know about Oliver Perez: Jerry Manuel played with Mark Fidrych in Detroit when the oddball pitcher nicknamed "The Bird" because of his resemblance to Big Bird from "Sesame Street" captivated the nation by talking to baseballs and talking to himself on the mound. And Manuel thinks Perez reminds him of Fidrych. It's just that Perez is more erratic.
You can't imagine the eccentricity of the sort embodied by Mark Fidrych in today's culture of baseball. The game's oxygen does not exist to let someone like Fidrych breathe.
Goose Gossage looked at the TV screen and began an instant, hilarious trip to 1976, the year of The Bird. On Saturday, Gossage was relaxing after a round of golf at Pueblo Country Club when he saw Mark Fidrych working his weird magic on ESPN Classic.
Accident claims 'The Bird' Fidrych BOSTON - Mark Fidrych, an eccentric All-Star pitcher nicknamed "The Bird" whose career was shortened by injuries, was found dead Monday in an apparent accident at his farm. He was 54.
NEW YORK -- From the Yankee Stadium stands, I could not tell who was acting more like a boy in a sandbox, the pitcher or me. I was a first-time visitor talking to myself. Mark Fidrych was a first-year starter talking to the ball. I'd been to the old place once, though I was too young to remember anything, but those mammoth steel columns, 118 of them, keeping the Roman Colosseum of ballparks from crashing to Earth. But on Aug. 3, 1976, when I was all of 11, the renovated Stadium was so alive in the lights that it burned a forever place in my memory bank.
When Coors Field is no longer a hitter's paradise and a pitcher's nightmare, in what can a pious fantasy owner trust? Indeed, the sands upon which all fantasy truths are built have shifted, and roto players have been left with that same piercing pain they felt when they learned there was no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny, that Mark Fidrych and Joe Charboneau were baseball mirages.
Undoubtedly, The Bird was a strange duck. Emerging unbidden from his shell in the late spring of 1976, Mark Fidrych soared sensationally for one golden season with the Detroit Tigers. On the mound, he talked to the baseball and to himself, often stalking frantically about to no apparent purpose. When he finally flung the ball, it usually mesmerized batters and enchanted onlookers. The 21-year-old right-hander gained his nickname because his ungainly gait and mop of blond curls resembled those of Big Bird on "Sesame Street." Whatever the reason, he became a hero to tons of teenagers - most of them female - who filled Tiger Stadium when he pitched there.
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