Lightning kills Major League Baseball player
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Lightning kills Major League Baseball player*
Reuters
Monday, May 26, 2008; 3:18 PM
CARACAS (Reuters) - Former Major League Baseball player Geremi Gonzalez
was struck by lightning and killed over the weekend at a lake in his
native Venezuela, authorities said on Monday.
Gonzalez, 33, a pitcher who was signed to Japan's Yomiuri Giants in
2007, had previously played for the Chicago Cubs, the Tampa Bay Rays,
the Boston Red Sox, the New York Mets and the Milwaukee Brewers.
There were conflicting versions of what Gonzalez was doing at the time
of his death on Sunday, but local emergency services told Reuters he was
playing with a motorized water-bike when the lightning struck at Lake
Maracaibo in his home state of Zulia in western Venezuela.
(Reporting by Enrique Andres Pretel; Editing by Eric Beech)