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Ryan Minor, a former American professional baseball third baseman, minor league baseball manager and professional basketball player, has died.
He was 49.
Ryan Minor cause of death revealed
Ryan Minor on Friday after a battle with Stage 4 colon cancer, his twin brother, Damon, announced on social media.
Who was Ryan Minor?
Minor was an All-American in basketball and a pitcher and first baseman who helped the OU baseball team to the 1994 national title, was drafted professionally in both sports.
He arrived at OU in the fall of 1992 as a member of Billy Tubbs‘ men’s basketball team and Larry Cochell’s baseball squad.
He played his final two seasons of basketball under former head coach Kelvin Sampson.
Outside of Oklahoma, Minor, who was named last month as a member of the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame 2024 class, is perhaps best known as the player who replaced Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. in the lineup Sept. 20, 1998, ending Ripken’s Major League Baseball record of 2,632 consecutive games played.
In basketball, Minor, who hailed from the small western Oklahoma town of Hammon, was named 1994-95 Big Eight Conference Player of the Year as a junior by the Associated Press and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, and co-player of the year by the league’s head coaches.
