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After a long fight with cancer, John Stearns, a four-time All-Star catcher with the New York Mets, died. He was 71 years old at the time. According to the Mets, Stearns, who played football and baseball at the University of Colorado, died in Denver on Thursday night. He died less than three weeks after celebrating an Old Timers' Day at Citi Field in New York, which coincided with the Mets' 60th anniversary. On Aug. 27, he was noticeably thin in his Mets jersey and waved to the audience as he was introduced on the field.

Pete Rose dismissed questions about his first appearance on the field in Philadelphia (main) on Sunday after the franchise scrapped 2017 plans to honor him due to a woman's claim that she had a sexual association with baseball's hit king when she was a youth. 'It was 55 years ago, babe,' Rose told a female baseball writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer.' Rose, on the other hand, had no trouble recalling the 1980 World Series champion Phillies team (inset, Rose was playing that year) that was honoured prior to Sunday's game.