Authorities are awaiting autopsy results on Mark Fidrych and trying to figure out how the former All-Star pitcher died on his Massachusetts farm. The 54-year-old Fidrych was found dead Monday beneath ...

Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1976, the nation had a big party, celebrating its 200th birthday with fireworks, parades and cookouts. As the country’s 250th birthday bash on July 4 is approaching, ...

This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. Mark Fidrych died this week in an accident on his farm in Massachusetts. He was only 54. The news threw me into a time machine and flashed me back ...

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. — Massachusetts authorities say former All-Star pitcher Mark Fidrych suffocated when his clothes became entangled with a spinning part on the truck he was working on. The Worcester ...

No reason should be required to celebrate the late Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, the down-to-earth yet larger-than-life Northborough native who became a national phenomenon as a rookie pitcher for the ...