Despite all his accomplishments, Jose Fernandez never pitched a complete game, and on Thursday he was carried out of church in a casket with too much unfinished business. Fernandez, 24, and two friends died in a boat crash early Sunday near Miami Beach. "He was a young man who was larger than life — a good, kind-hearted, loving young man who loved life, who loved people," Alvarez said in his homily. Fernandez and his mother defected from Cuba by boat on his fourth try when he was 15. "I prefer not to think of this tragedy as the end of his life," Loria said, "but rather as the beginning of the legend."

Source: CBC News September 29, 2016 19:02 UTC