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March 22, 1993

greencrowgreencrow Posts: 867
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Today is the 20th anniversary of the boating accident that took the lives of Steve Olin and Tim Crews.

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    EstilEstil Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭✭
    That also happens to have been my 13th birthday image
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    prthdprthd Posts: 1,323
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    CNoteCNote Posts: 2,070 ✭
    Being 5 days shy of 13 at the time, and not watching much TV and having no ESPN, I don't recall this at all.
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    onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    I remember it well. Every spring training I think about it. Bobby Ojeda was the third pitcher in the boat and the only survivor. Ojeda was beloved in NY so when the story broke it was all over the NY papers and TV. Ojeda was the pitcher who severed a finger on his pitching hand years earlier in a freak gardening accident and had it re-attached. There was always a sense of bad luck surrounding Ojeda. And he turned out to be the sole survivor. He vanished for a while in '93 due to the survivor's guilt and I don't think he was ever the same again.

    Steve Olin is one of those 'what could have been' cases. He had a unique pitching approach--he was a side armer who was only getting better. Olin was the closer. Crews had just signed on for middle relief that off season I think. Both were going to be significant in Cleveland's rebuilt/reinforced squad.

    Without getting into too much detail about the accident here, just google Steve Olin Tim Crews.
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    prthdprthd Posts: 1,323


    << <i>I remember it well. Every spring training I think about it. Bobby Ojeda was the third pitcher in the boat and the only survivor. Ojeda was beloved in NY so when the story broke it was all over the NY papers and TV. Ojeda was the pitcher who severed a finger on his pitching hand years earlier in a freak gardening accident and had it re-attached. There was always a sense of bad luck surrounding Ojeda. And he turned out to be the sole survivor. He vanished for a while in '93 due to the survivor's guilt and I don't think he was ever the same again.

    Steve Olin is one of those 'what could have been' cases. He had a unique pitching approach--he was a side armer who was only getting better. Olin was the closer. Crews had just signed on for middle relief that off season I think. Both were going to be significant in Cleveland's rebuilt/reinforced squad.

    Without getting into too much detail about the accident here, just google Steve Olin Tim Crews. >>



    Well said my friend. I recall living in California at the time, a junior in high school. A transplant from Ohio, I cried.
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    greencrowgreencrow Posts: 867
    RIP Steve and Tim.
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    orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,463 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was 10 days old. Don't remember this.
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    MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Boats can be dangerous when not carefully operated.
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    CNoteCNote Posts: 2,070 ✭


    << <i>Boats can be dangerous when not carefully operated. >>



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