Article: The Chicago Tribune Phil Rogers Baseball column: Hancock's bad choices proved fatal.

Byline: Phil Rogers

May 6--One moment you're on the phone talking to a friend who plays baseball for the defending World Series champions. The next moment there's a loud noise and the phone goes silent.

Your 29-year-old friend is dead.

That was the situation for the St. Louis woman who was talking to Josh Hancock after midnight last Saturday night. That's how fleeting relationships--and life itself--can be.

Unfortunately there were no pleasant surprises in the toxicology report that followed the collision between Hancock's rented Ford Explorer and a tow truck that had stopped to help a stranded motorist alongside a St. Louis-area ...

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