https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/news/fernan ... zuela-dies
No one is revealing cause of death, but he'd been sick for a while.Fernando Valenzuela, the cultural hero and baseball legend whose journey from a dusty pitcher’s mound in rural Mexico to center stage at Dodger Stadium launched a movement for baseball fans around the globe, died on Tuesday. He was 63.
Decades after “Fernandomania” drew generations of families to Chavez Ravine in 1981, Valenzuela remained a symbol of hope and of the American dream. His rise in the early 1980s came as Latinos and Mexican-Americans struggled to find a sense of belonging amid continuing debates over the site of Dodger Stadium and immigration reform.