Angels Broadcaster, Former Pitcher Still Going Strong After Life-Threatening Event

Angels Broadcaster, Former Pitcher Still Going Strong After Life-Threatening Event
Mark Langston (12) of the California Angels prepares to pitch the ball during their 1990 season game. Stephen Dunn/Getty Images
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Approaching the four-year anniversary of a cardiac event that under most any other circumstances would have taken his life, Angels radio broadcaster and former major-league pitcher Mark Langston can joke about it.

That is, after all, how baseball players, and former baseball players, usually deal with adversity and frightening situations.

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Dan Wood is a community sports reporter based in Orange County, California. He has covered sports professionally for some 43 years, spending nearly three decades in the newspaper industry and 14 years in radio. He is an avid music fan, with a strong lean toward country and classic rock.
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