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Strawberry's story gets even more tragic. As he valiantly battled colon cancer in 1998, his teammates dedicated the postseason to him. They won the World Series that year, and last year Strawberry beat the odds again and returned to help the hated Yanks squeak by the surging Red Sox and ultimately win yet another championship...
DIED. CHARLES SCHULZ, 77, creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the gang of little losers at Peanuts, perhaps the world's most beloved cartoon; of colon cancer on the eve of the publication of the final Sunday strip; in San Francisco. At the news of his retirement in December, TIME's James Poniewozik wrote, "His lifework is a reminder that self-awareness and a refined sense of irony do not mean affectlessness, that being a loser does not mean being defeated...
...Charles Schulz's last Charlie Brown strip, which featured the whole gang in their most well-known poses (i.e. Charlie with a football, Linus with his blankey), ran the day before he died of colon cancer. He has been missed...
...five-decade-old comic, just hours before that newspaper containing his farewell Sunday strip arrived at the door of his Santa Rosa, Calif., home - Charles Schulz died in his sleep Saturday evening. "Peanuts," he had long said, would end with him, and he was ready; having been diagnosed with colon cancer just months earlier, he was wrapping things up. The last daily "Peanuts" comic strip ran January 3; Sunday's was the final big weekend act, and was a farewell note...
...After choosing which form of cancer (currently breast, lung, colon, or prostate) to evaluate, users submit a brief survey on diet, medical and family history. The Web site then returns an estimate of risk relative to others of the same age and gender...