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Bob Boone, World Series champion and part of 3-generation baseball family, dies at 78

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bob Boone, the catcher on the Philadelphia Phillies' first World Series championship team in 1980 who won seven Gold Gloves and was part of baseball's first three-generation family, has died. He was 78. Boone's son, Bret, announced his father's death Tuesday on social media. The Phillies said in a statement Boone died Monday. No cause of death was announced. “He was a man of great integrity. He was a great dad, husband, and patriarch. It was a privilege to call him my a...

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