Don Sutton, a Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher who played 22 seasons, most of them for the Los Angeles Dodgers, died Monday from natural causes. He was 75.
“Saddened to share that my dad passed away in his sleep last night. He worked as hard as anyone I’ve ever known and he treated those he encountered with great respect…and he took me to work a lot. For all these things, I am very grateful. Rest In Peace,” his son, sports broadcaster Daron Sutton, said in a statement.
Born in 1945 in Clio, Alabama, Sutton grew up in north Florida and briefly played baseball in college before being drafted to a Los Angeles Dodgers-affiliated minor league team in 1965.