Kirby Puckett died on March 6, 2006, almost exactly a decade after he woke up blind in one eye on the last day of his last spring training. To relive the joyful part of Puckett’s life, I spoke with ...

KRT photo MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Kirby Puckett, the bubbly, barrel-shaped Hall of Famer who carried the Minnesota Twins to two World Series titles before his career was cut short by glaucoma, died Monday ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Kirby Puckett died Monday, a day after the Hall of Fame outfielder had a stroke at his Arizona home. He was 45. Puckett died at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. He ...

The hospital said Puckett was given last rites and died in the afternoon. “On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett,” baseball commissioner Bud ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Those closest to Baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett are involved in a dispute over who should keep his cremated remains. Puckett, 45, died March 6 at a hospital in Arizona after ...