Shawn Burroughs, who helped Long Beach win the Little League World Championship in the early 1990s, died of fentanyl poisoning, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office.
On May 9, Burroughs, the No. 9 overall pick in the 1998 MLB draft, collapsed in the parking lot of Stearns Park in Long Beach after dropping off his 6-year-old son for baseball practice. said Long Beach Press Telegram in time. Burroughs’ mother, Debbie, told reporters that her son had gone into cardiac arrest.
Wittman told the Press-Telegram that Burrows was found passed out of his car and unresponsive when CPR was performed. The Long Beach Fire Department responded to 9-1-1 calls and pronounced Burroughs dead at the scene.
Burroughs, the son of former American League MVP Jeff Burroughs, was a star player on the Long Beach team that won the Little League World Series in 1992 and 1993, pitching a no-hitter in the latter contest. He also played on the U.S. Olympic team that won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games.
After playing for the San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Devil Rays from 2002 to 2006, Sean Burrows He was out of baseball for several years and later told ESPN that he had been battling addiction for some time. But he returned to work at his specialty, playing 78 games for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2011 and 10 games for the Minnesota Twins in 2012.
Burroughs played for the Dodgers’ minor league affiliate in 2013 and eventually returned to Long Beach, where he coached his son in the minor leagues. In a statement released after Burroughs’ death, Wittman called him a “legend in the LBLL and the baseball community.”
“I have had the privilege of training with Shawn for the past two years and he always treats the kids with a fun and friendly attitude.” Wittmann wrote“a wealth of baseball knowledge that can lift any child out of pain and humility worthy of emulation. To say this is a huge loss would be an understatement.”
