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Former Cubs third baseman Ron Santo passed away Thursday after battling bladder cancer, his family has announced. Despite an impressive 15-season career in Major League Baseball and subsequent years of work as a sports analyst, Santo was never elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, even after being nominated 19 times, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The Cubs themselves have honored Santo's success as a player by retiring his number and hoisting it on the flagpole at Wrigley Field. Santo was also a Lou Gehrig Memorial Award winner.
He was also an inspiration off the field: In addition to fighting bladder cancer and heart problems, he also battled diabetes and had to undergo a leg amputation as a result of complications from the disease.
"He never complained," Santo's broadcast partner Pat Hughes told the Tribune. "He wanted to have fun. He wanted to talk baseball."
Surge Desk takes a look at Santo's career by the numbers:
- Games played: 2,243
- Batting average: .277 over 15 seasons with the Cubs and White Sox, where he played for one year
- Home runs: 342
- Runs batted in: 1,331
- National League Gold Glove Awards: 5, earned back-to-back during seasons from 1964 to 1968
- National League All-Star Awards: 9
- Hall of Fame Nominations: 19, from 1980 to 1998
- Life expectancy given by doctors after diabetes diagnosis: 25 years
- Dollars raised for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $50 million
- Years as Cubs broadcaster: 20
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