Davey Lopes died aged 80 after receiving treatment at a hospital in Rhode Island for Parkinson's disease. The former Major League Baseball star was a two-time World Series champion and a four-time All-Star.
Lopes spent 10 years with the Los Angeles Dodgers and won one of his World Series titles with the club in 1981. He also played for the Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros and Oakland A's during a 16-season career that ended with a.263 batting average, 155 home runs and 614 runs batted in in 1,812 games.
He won his second World Series title as a coach with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2008, extending a baseball life that made him a fixture around the sport long after his playing days ended. He was described as a Dodgers legend and a former Major League Baseball star who spent the majority of his career with Los Angeles.
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The news came hours after Dodgers star Miguel Rojas said his father had died suddenly on April 7, a reminder of how quickly grief can stack around a clubhouse. Lopes's death closes the book on one of the steadier careers of his era, and the numbers still tell the story: 37 years after his 1981 title, he was still being counted among the game's lasting names.
