NOT TO TRIVIALIZE HIS CONDITION AT ALL...:

Baseball guru Gammons stricken (Jeff Horrigan, June 28, 2006, Boston Herald)

Telephone calls and e-mails from the highest ranks of the baseball and music worlds flooded the press box at Fenway Park last night as word filtered out that Peter Gammons had been stricken by an aneurysm earlier in the day.

Friends and family members were cautiously optimistic about Gammons’ chances of recovery late last night following approximately five hours of surgery at a Boston-area hospital.

The revered ESPN baseball analyst, who primarily resides in Brookline, was overcome by the aneurysm while near his Cape Cod home. He was initially taken to Falmouth Hospital before being airlifted to Boston for surgery. No immediate word on his condition has been released but it is believed that surgery was able to take place before the artery in the brain could rupture, which typically bodes well for the degree of recovery. He is expected to be held in the intensive-care unit for at least the next week.

...but isn't just about your first thought how much he would have enjoyed the game? Pray he recovers fully and quickly.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 28, 2006 8:23 AM