The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Guerrero suffers stroke
Ex-Dodgers slugger, 60, is comatose in N.Y. hospital.
Former World Series MVP Pedro Guerrero had a massive stroke and is recovering in a hospital in New York, his wife said.
Roxanna Jimenez said her 60-year-old husband was taken to a hospital Monday. She said doctors initially declared him brain dead but a second opinion confirmed he was comatose. He was transferred to Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
“It was his second massive stroke,” Jimenez told the radio show Grandes en los Deportes in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Tuesday. “He’s recovering. The doctor said he can improve. He opened his eyes and is trying to communicate.”
Guerrero played 15 seasons in the majors with the Dodgers and Cardinals. He was the 1981 World Series co-MVP with the Dodgers and played in five All-Star Games. He was a career .300 hitter, with 1,618 hits, 215 home runs and 898 RBIs, and starred for the Dodgers from 1978-88.
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