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Hope's Legacy: Ryan Freel's Impact Transcends Tragedy
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Hope's Legacy: Ryan Freel's Impact Transcends Tragedy
By JUSTIN BARNEY
Morris News Service
Posted: December 28, 2012 - 10:31pm
Saint Augustine Record
http://staugustine.com/sports/2012-12-27/
hopes-legacy-ryan-freels-impact-transcends-tragedy
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Freel, a former baseball star and community icon, found dead in his home
from a self-inflicted shotgun wound on Dec. 22, was remembered as a father
smitten with his three daughters and driven to help anyone, even if he
ultimately didn't know how to help himself.While many still couldn't stop
asking why Freel, 36, would taken his own life, his family said that they
were hopeful that science would offer some conclusions as to what he was
dealing with.Freel's stepfather, Clark Vargas, said that as many as 15
concussions that the eight-year major league veteran endured were being
investigated by the Sports Legacy Institute and Boston University Center
for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.
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Freel's brain tissue samples were donated for analysis to see if he was
potentially suffering from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, which
has shown up in the brains of athletes who have suffered head trauma.
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Until now, most of the studies involving CTE have centered around football
or boxing, including a detailed report in the medical journal, Brain,
published on Dec. 3. In a sampling of 85 participants studied, 64 were
athletes, and none were solely a baseball player like Freel.Freel's
service packed Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home, filling the main sanctuary
and spilling over to several overflow rooms where mourners listened to the
service over a speaker.
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The baseball tone was pronounced, with two of Freel's Reds jerseys on one
side of the entrance and an oversized baseball made out of flowers on the
other. There was a Reds team photo from Opening Day in 2004, autographed
by the team's starting lineup, hanging on the back wall. Teenage baseball
players from Freel's Big League Development organization wore their red
jerseys to honor him. The six pallbearers wore baseball jerseys, most of
them replicas from Freel's playing days.
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