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MLB Star Jeremy Giambi Got Hit In Head With Baseball 6 Months Before Tragic Suicide
01.07.2022 - 04:31 / perezhilton.com
As the baseball world continues to mourn the loss of star MLB outfielder Jeremy Giambi, new information is coming to light that may help explain his tragic passing.
We’ve previously reported on the former Oakland Athletics star’s sad death, which occurred unexpectedly back in February of this year. He was just 47 years old. Two days after news of the news broke, officials confirmed Giambi had died by suicide.
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Now, a new report from the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office details some potential context for the former baseball slugger’s tragic passing. First obtained by People on Thursday, the report indicates that Giambi suffered a severe brain trauma about six months prior to his death — he was hit in the head by a baseball at some point in August of last year.
The former pro athlete’s mother, who was the first person to find his body after his passing, was the first one to connect the dots on the injury being an issue leading up to his suicide. Per the coroner’s docs, the mourning mom told authorities that Jeremy “had not been the same since” the head injury, and had become “very negative, emotional, and paranoid” in the months following the incident.
It wasn’t immediately clear exactly what happened on that fateful day in August of 2021, but the injury did seem severe. The report notes that Giambi, who was working as a baseball coach for younger athletes at the time, was struck severely enough in the head that he had to have surgery to repair a broken cheekbone. Oof…
Even after the surgery, though, he “seemed different,” according to his mother. Obviously in recent years we’ve just scratched the surface of learning about brain
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