American baseball player
Baseball player
Robert Ramsay
Pitcher Born: (1973-12-03 ) December 3, 1973
Vancouver, Washington , U.S.Died: August 4, 2016(2016-08-04) (aged 42)
Moscow, Idaho , U.S.August 27, 1999, for the Seattle Mariners September 30, 2000, for the Seattle Mariners
Win–loss record 1–3
Earned run average 4.19
Strikeouts 43
Robert Arthur Ramsay (December 3, 1973 – August 4, 2016) was a
Major League Baseball
pitcher . He pitched parts of two seasons,
1999 and
2000 , for the
Seattle Mariners , then battled
brain cancer for nearly fifteen years.
[1]
[2]
Early years
Born and raised in
Vancouver, Washington , Ramsay graduated from its
Mountain View High School in 1992. He then attended
Washington State University in
Pullman ,
[3] where he played
college baseball for the
Cougars for four seasons, through 1996.
[4]
During his junior year in 1995, WSU won the
Pac-10 northern division,
[5]
[6] and Ramsay was the starter in the first game of the championship series against southern division winner
USC at
Los Angeles .
[3]
[7]
Pro career
Following his senior season at Washington State, Ramsay was selected by the
Boston Red Sox in the seventh round of the
1996 draft .
[8]
[9] The Red Sox traded him to the
Mariners for
Butch Huskey on July 26, 1999.
[9]
[10] After the 2000 season with Seattle, Ramsay spent
2001 at
Triple-A
Tacoma , then was diagnosed with brain
cancer (
glioblastoma multiforme ) in early 2002.
[11] After surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment, he attempted a comeback in 2003 with the
San Diego Padres organization,
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15] but it ended his baseball career.
[16]
After baseball
Ramsay lived in Pullman in the off-season during his pro career,
[13] and spent some of his retirement coaching and teaching in
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ,
[16] his wife Samantha's hometown.
[17]
[18]
The family moved back down to the
Palouse at
Moscow , where Samantha, a former
Penn State and
WSU
volleyball player (
setter ),
[17]
[18] became an assistant professor of nutrition at the
University of Idaho in 2010.
[19] While she completed her doctorate in education at UI, Ramsay earned a master's.
[2]
Death
Ramsay died at age 42 in Moscow in 2016 after suffering a seizure, a complication related to previously diagnosed brain cancer.
[16]
[20]
[21] He had survived over 14½ years since the initial diagnosis.
[2] His widow died in a storm after being struck by lightning on the
Matterhorn in 2017.
[22]
References
^ Castrovince, Anthony (August 8, 2016).
"Ramsay's life not measured by stats" . Major League Baseball . Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
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a
b
c
"Robert A. Ramsay" . Short's Funeral Chapel . (Moscow, Idaho). (obituary). August 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
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a
b Miedema, Laurence (May 16, 1995).
"Ramsay draws opening assignment at USC" . Moscow-Pullman Daily News . (Idaho-Washington). p. 1C.
^
"Washington State University Baseball Players Who Made It to the Major Leagues" . Baseball-Almanac.com . Archived from
the original on August 12, 2004. Retrieved December 16, 2012 .
^ Miedema, Laurence (May 15, 1995).
"Cougars headed to playoffs" . Moscow-Pullman Daily News . (Idaho-Washington). p. 1C.
^
"Pac-10 North standings" . Moscow-Pullman Daily News . (Idaho-Washington). May 11, 1995. p. 3D.
^
"Cougars squander lead, fall to USC" . Moscow-Pullman Daily News . (Idaho-Washington). May 19, 1995. p. 1B.
^ Miedema, Laurence (June 6, 1996).
"Arizona picks WSU's Ryan in 26th round" . Moscow-Pullman Daily News . (Idaho-Washington). p. 1D.
^
a
b
Robert Ramsay page at Baseball Almanac
^
"Huskey to Boston for ex-WSU pitcher" . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. July 27, 1999. p. C1.
^ Newhan, Ross (February 23, 2003).
"Ramsay is taking it one pitch at a time" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
^ Berkow, Ira (March 17, 2003).
"Baseball: For pitcher, a spring to appreciate" . New York Times . Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
^
a
b Andriesen, David (March 3, 2003).
"Rob Ramsay's game of his life" . Seattle Post-Intelligencer . Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
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"Ramsay navigates long road back" . Kitsap Sun . (Bremerton, Washington). Associated Press. March 2, 2003. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
^ Kelley, Steve (January 28, 2004).
"Ramsay again talks baseball, not cancer" . Seattle Times . Retrieved September 12, 2007 .
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a
b
c
"M's remember former reliever Rob Ramsay, who also pitched at WSU" . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington). August 8, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
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a
b
"Cd'A's Spink will transfer to Cougars" . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington). January 5, 1997. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
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a
b
"U of I professor killed in Alps had Cd'A connection" . Coeur d'Alene Press . (Idaho). August 1, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
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"Samantha A Ramsay" . University of Idaho . Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
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"Robert Arthur Ramsay, 42, of Moscow" . dnews.com . Moscow-Pullman Daily News. August 4, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
^ Boren, Cindy (August 7, 2017).
"She found peace in climbing after husband's death; year later, she died on the Matterhorn, after being struck by lightning" . Washington Post . Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
^
"Samantha Ramsay, 41, of Moscow" .
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