Corey Phelan, a 20-year-old minor league baseball player from Long Island, died of a rare form of cancer, the Philadelphia Phillies announced Thursday.
Phelan grew up in Greenlawn in Suffolk County and his teachers in the Harborfields School District described him as a standout human being."We're just gonna miss him deeply. He's just somebody that should be on this planet," Susan Turrini said.
He was a promising pitching prospect who could throw a fastball 90+ miles per hour and had last pitched in the minor leagues in 2021. "I got a CAT scan on my brain and that was fine and then I got a CAT scan on my chest and they told me that I had a nine-inch mass in my chest," Phelan told our sister station WPVI back in June.
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