From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   It's hard to believe that 20 years ago, the Chicago White Sox were the   
   championship team, beating Houston Astros in four games to win the   
   World's Series.   
      
   Bobby Jenks was a big guy for a closing pitcher, 275 pounds. Started his   
   Major League career on another team but was injured and a self-destructive   
   drunk. The White Sox claimed him off waivers in 2004, put him on their   
   Double-A farm team, then called him up mid-season 2005 and Jenks and the   
   White Sox thrived together during an amazingly productive period.   
      
   Jenks could throw 100 mph fastballs and an unhittable curve ball. He   
   pitched in each of those four World Series games versus the Astros.   
      
   In 2007 he set an American league record of retiring 41 batters in a   
   row as a closing pitcher.   
      
   He played for the Red Sox, then in 2011 had disastrous surgery involving   
   his spinal column that led to an infection nearly killing him. After the   
   malpractice was apparent, he learned that the surgeon was concurrently   
   operating on a paralyzed man who also received an unacceptable level of   
   care. Jenks said later had he known, he'd have scheduled his surgery   
   elsewhere.   
      
   The botched surgery forced his retirement.   
      
   Earlier in 2025, he was diagnosed with a type of stomach cancer from   
   which he died 7/4/2025.   
      
   https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2025/07/05/bobby-jenks-di   
   s-obituary-white-sox   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jenks   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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