Originally posted by: zion
Didn't he go blind? If I remember right, I went to a Rockies game against the Twins a long time ago and Kirby was supposed to play, only he didn't play that day because he couldn't see and he never played again.
He went blind in one eye as the result of glocoma (sp?).Didn't he go blind? If I remember right, I went to a Rockies game against the Twins a long time ago and Kirby was supposed to play, only he didn't play that day because he couldn't see and he never played again.
I remember that very well because his trouble might have started when he got hit on the head by a pitch in a game against the Cleveland Indians. It was Dennis Martinez pitching.