FILE - In this February 1984 file photo, Chicago Cubs pitcher Scott Sanderson poses for a photo during baseball spring training. Sanderson, the right-hander who helped the Cubs make two playoff appearances and was a member of four postseason teams during a 19-year career, died Thursday, April 11, 2019. He was 62. An official with Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Ill., where Sanderson was a member, told The Associated Press on Thursday the family confirmed the death to the club. The cause of death wasnât provided. (AP Photo, File)
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CHICAGO (AP) - Scott Sanderson, the right-hander who helped the Chicago Cubs make two playoff appearances and was a member of four postseason teams during a 19-year career, died Thursday. He was 62.
An official with Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, where Sanderson was a member, told The Associated Press on Thursday the family confirmed the death to the club. The cause of death wasn't provided.
A Chicago-area product, Sanderson was 163-143 with a 3.84 ERA for Montreal (1978-83), the Cubs (1984-89), Oakland (1990), New York Yankees (1991-92), Los Angeles Angels (1993, 1995-96), San Francisco (1993) and the Chicago White Sox (1994). He made the playoffs with Montreal (1981), the Cubs (1984, 1989) and Athletics (1990), and was an All-Star with the Yankees (1991).
Sanderson was later an agent.
"What today's players owe to Scott is both incalculable and largely unknown to them," former players' association chief operating officer Gene Orza said. "It was Scott, more than any other player, whose message to his contemporaries both captured what was at stake in the great strike of 1994 and alerted them to their responsibility: 'Who among us wants to leave to the players who come after him less than what he received from the players who have come before him?' Those of us who worked closely with Scott will never forget him. The players he leaves behind never can."
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FILE - In this May 13, 2016, file photo, former Chicago Cubs pitcher Scott Sanderson throws out a ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates in Chicago. Sanderson, the right-hander who helped the Cubs make two playoff appearances and was a member of four postseason teams during a 19-year career, died Thursday, April 11, 2019. He was 62. An official with Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Ill., where Sanderson was a member, told The Associated Press on Thursday the family confirmed the death to the club. The cause of death wasnât provided. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1984, file photo, Chicago Cubs' Scott Sanderson pitches to a San Diego Padres batter in Game 4 of baseball's National League Championship Series in San Diego. Sanderson, the right-hander who helped the Cubs make two playoff appearances and was a member of four postseason teams during a 19-year career, died Thursday, April 11, 2019. He was 62. An official with Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Ill., where Sanderson was a member, told The Associated Press on Thursday the family confirmed the death to the club. The cause of death wasnât provided. (AP Photo, File)
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