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Reds third base
coach, Mark Berry, congratulates Jay Bruce on a homer last September
Bleacher Report
Reds coach
diagnosed with cancer
Reds third base coach Mark Berry told the team and reporters Sunday
morning that he has been diagnosed with cancer in his tonsils and two
lymph nodes on the left side of his neck.
“I have cancer,” Berry told reporters after the team meeting
(Cincinnati.com). “I know it sounds bad, the word cancer, but there are
plenty of people in this clubhouse that have had it, and I know people
around the game who have beaten it. My sister had it and beat it. That
part hasn't bothered me.”
Berry has a choice between surgery and radiation. If he chooses
radiation, he won't be able to travel with the team during the season
-- though any concerns like that are far secondary to his well-being.
Berry, 50, is a career Red. He was selected in the sixth round of the
1984 draft by the team. After seven seasons as a player in their
minor-league system, he became a coach for the Charleston Wheelers in
the Reds organization and has stayed with it since. He's been the Reds'
third base coach since 2004.
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