Sean Burroughs, a former MLB player who won an Olympic gold medal in 2000, passes away at age 43
Sean Burroughs, 43, a former MLB infielder, two-time Little League World Series champion, and Olympic gold medalist, passed away on Thursday.
The Long Beach Little League, located in California, initially shared the news on Instagram on Friday.
The Long Beach Little League has confirmed in a statement on Instagram that Sean Burroughs died yesterday. pic.twitter.com/GYyWI1nlb2
— Kyle Glaser (@KyleAGlaser) May 10, 2024
After helping the team win two Little League World Series Championships in 1992 and 1993, Burroughs went back to teach his kid there.
Doug Wittman, the president of Long Beach Little League, informed Kyle Glaser of the San Bernardino Sun that Burroughs was found unconscious and later declared deceased in the parking lot of the Little League stadium where his kid was participating.
According to Glaser, his mother told the Southern California News Group that her son’s cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Burroughs played seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), the son of 1974 AL MVP Jeff Burroughs, but his baseball career started before he was even a teenager.
According to Jim Caple of ESPN and Tom Hoffarth of the Daily News, Burroughs pitched back-to-back no-hitters in the 1993 Little League World Series to help Long Beach win the championship as a 12-year-old. His accomplishment earned him an appearance on David Letterman’s late-night talk show.
Burroughs joined the gold-medal winning Team USA in the 2000 Sydney Olympics after being selected in the first round by the San Diego Padres with the ninth overall choice in the MLB draft in 1998.