This is sad : Los Angeles Dodgers star player has found dead few hours ago

Roger Craig, who was a pitcher for the first Los Angeles Dodgers World Series championship team and manager of the San Diego Padres, has died. He was 93.

He died Sunday in San Diego following a short illness, according to a spokesperson for the San Francisco Giants who was informed of Craig’s death by a family member per media reports.

Craig was on the 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers team that won the World Series over the Chicago White Sox. The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn in 1958 and played in the Los Angeles Coliseum before moving to Dodger Stadium in 1962.

Craig was also the manager of the San Diego Padres in 1978 and led them to an 84-78 record, a 15-game improvement over the previous season. He was fired as manager of the Padres in 1979 after going 68-93.

Craig was also a pitching coach with the Padres, Houston Astros and Detroit Tigers.

His best season as a pitcher came in 1959 with the Dodgers. He was 11- 5 with a 2.06 ERA in 29 games and made 17 starts. He pitched four shutouts, tied for the most in the National League that year.

Craig was also on the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers team that won the World Series over the New York Yankees. He started and won Game 5 of the 1955 World Series and gave the Dodgers a 3-2 lead in the series.

He also started the first game for the New York Mets during the expansion year of 1962. He played for 12 years in the major leagues, pitching for the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies in
addition to the Dodgers and Mets.