Toronto Blue Jays great Jim Clancy cause of death revealed
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Best selling baseball author, beat writer, and baseball historian Danny Gallagher revealed Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Jim Clancy's cause of death on social media on Tuesday.
According to Gallagher, a former Blue Jays teammate of Clancy told him that he battled prostate cancer and succumbed to the disease in hospice on Monday.
A Blue Jays teammate of Jim Clancy told me today he died of prostate cancer. Very sad. He had been in hospice care for about two weeks before he passed away. 73 CG, over 2,500 IP, an almost unheard of 40 starts in 1982 when he threw a perfect inning at the ASG in Montreal.
The six-foot-four, 220-pound Clancy had a 16-14 record with a 3.71 earned-run average and 139 strikeouts in his 1982 all-star season as the Blue Jays finished out of last place in the AL East for the first time with a 78-84 record.
He went 9-6 with a 3.78 ERA in 1985 as the Jays won the division for the first time before falling in seven games to the Kansas City Royals in the AL Championship Series.
Clancy, who ranks second in Blue Jays history in starts (381), innings pitched (2,517), and complete games (74), signed with the Houston Astros after a disappointing 1988 season in Toronto, where he had an 11-13 record and 4.49 ERA as the Blue Jays failed to return to the playoffs for a third straight season.
He played his final campaign coming out of the bullpen with the 1991 Atlanta Braves. He earned his first-ever post-season victory in the third game of the World Series as Atlanta defeated the Minnesota Twins 5-4 in twelve innings.
Clancy finished the series with a 1-0 record with a 4.15 ERA, but the Twins won the series in seven games.
Over his career, Clancy had a 140-167 record with a 4.23 ERA and 1,422 strikeouts.
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