Very sad...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/sports/baseball/ex-yankee-hideki-irabu-is-dead-at-42.html
Hideki Irabu, Briefly a Yankee Sensation, Dies at 42
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: July 28, 2011
Hideki Irabu, a former Japanese baseball star who was hailed as a pitching sensation when he joined the Yankees in 1997 but who fell short of expectations, prompting an angry George Steinbrenner to label him indelibly as a fat, pus-sy toad, was found dead on Wednesday in the Los Angeles suburb where he lived. He was 42.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/sports/baseball/ex-yankee-hideki-irabu-is-dead-at-42.html