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Name
  
Russ Swan

Role
  
Baseball player


Died
  
April 26, 2006

Education
  
Kennewick High School

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Russ Swan 1993 Topps Error Card


Russell Howard Swan (January 3, 1964 – April 26, 2006) was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1989 through 1994 for the San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Indians.

Listed at 6' 4", 210 lb., Swan was a southpaw reliever usually used in the set-up role, although occasionally would be called upon to work as a closer during the 1991 and 1992 campaigns. He was selected by the Giants in the ninth round of the 1986 MLB draft.

On June 9, 1990, Swan took a no-hitter into the eighth inning while starting a game for Seattle against the Detroit Tigers.

Following his playing retirement, Swan worked as a pitching coach at Washington State University and for the Colorado Rockies organization.

On April 17, 2006, Swan was found unconscious after a fall in a stairwell in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. He had been found without a wallet or any identification. Swan died nine days later at a hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 42.

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Russ Swan Wikipedia