Juan “Chi Chi” Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame golfer whose antics and inspiring life story made him among the sport’s most popular players, died Thursday.
Juan “Chi Chi” Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame golfer whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sport’s most popular players during a long professional career, died Thursday. He was 88. Rodriguez's death was announced by Carmelo Javier Ríos, a senator in Rodriguez’s native Puerto Rico. He didn't provide a cause of death.
He contributions to the game with his showmanship and charity and devotion to youth development was gigantic. He started an academy for children in the Tampa, Florida, area in the 1970s, focusing on those who were at risk. “Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood,” Rodriguez once said. And his humor never left him. He had a passion for baseball, and when the U.S.
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