Give me your best lineup of players who had their careers cut short by something unrelated to baseball.?

Roberto Clemente#21: The first latino inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and was a pioneer for the hispanic community. He tragically died in a plane crash delivering relief to Nicaragua after thay had suffered a massive earthquake. Career .317 hitter and finished with exactly 3000 hits.

Many of the people I would have said are already listed (Gehrig, Munson, Clemente, Bostock, Campanella, etc.)

A couple others:

Ugueth Urbina -- currently in a Venezuelan prison

Cory Lidle -- plane crash

And how about managers Dick Howser (cancer) and Gil Hodges (heart attack).

Note to Medadme... That was Ray Fosse, not Ray Hasse. Otherwise you had an interesting list.

And to the person who said Gehrig's career was already ending. No way.

C - Therman Munson

1B - Don Mattingly

2B -

3B -

SS - Ron Hansen

LF - Lyman Bostock

CF - Kirby Puckett

RF - Roberto Clemente

DH - Ed Delahanty

P - Sandy Koufax

Couldn't really come up with a 2B or 3B, but here's my all-time cut-short team. I won't mention Gehrig because he had a long career, and was really at the end of it when ALS began to take him away.

Everyone on this list either died or had a natural injury that robbed them of their talent. Puckett's glaucoma along with Hansen and Mattingly's back had nothing to do with baseball, nor did Bostock's gunshot, or Munson and Clemente's tragic airplane crashes, or Koufax' arthritis.

I'm gonna try and come up with some people that aren't the norm. But good/great players none-the-less.

Chief Sockalexis - O- good enought to have the Cleveland Indians named after him.

Ross Youngs -O- Died from Brights Disease. Hall of Famer.

Steve Howe -P- Drugs

J.R. Richard -P- blood clot

Jackie Jensen -1b- fear of flying

Nick Estasky(spelling?) -1b- Vertigo

Chuck Knoblauch -2b- mental blockage where he could not throw where aimed.

Ray Hasse -C- Injured while getting bowled over at the plate by Pete Rose. Yes, it did happen during a baseball game. But it was the All-Star game.

Steve Blass -P- mental blockage. He simply could not throw strikes.

Kevin Seitzer - 3b- Cancer. Did come back, but was never what he once was.

Then there is Ted Williams, among 100's of others, who lost 6 years to the war. Most of those were in the prime of his career.

C- Roy Campanella( CAr Crash)

1B- Lou Gehrig (Illness)

SS- Mike Sharperson (car crash)

Of- Roberto Clemente (plane Crash)

OF- Kirby Puckett (glaucoma)

OF- Bo Jackson( football injury)

P- Addie Joss (meningitis)

RP- Donnie Moore( suicide)

Kenny Hubbs -- Rookie of the year Cub who died in a helicopter crash.

Kirby Puckett -- glaucoma.

Lou Gehrig

Lymon Bostock -- shot (mistaken identity)

Thurmon Munson -- airplane accident

Jimmy Piersall -- mental problems

Ed Delahantey -- Mysterious death

C-Roy Campanella/ Thurman Munson(Campy was much better but I'm a Munson fan).

1B-Lou Gherig

2b-Ken Hubbs ---22yo died plane crash

3b- none I can think of

ss- Roy Chapman----29 yo died from beanball skull fracture

of- Roberto Clemente

of- Kirby Puckett

of- Lyman Bostock---27yo shot in backseat of a car

P- Addie Joss---31 Tubercular meningitis

Lou Gehrig - 1B

always comes to mind first

Thurmon Munson - C

Lyman Bostock - OF

The lists above me are great but people are forgetting that Dave Dravecky was finally putting together a nice career when Cancer took his ability to pitch away from him.