{"id":14687,"date":"2025-07-16T21:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14687\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T21:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:04:05","slug":"hall-of-famer-ryne-sandberg-continuing-to-fight-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14687\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg ‘continuing to fight’ cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 16, 2025, 01:09 PM ET<\/p>\n

Chicago Cubs<\/a> legend Ryne Sandberg said Wednesday he is “continuing to fight” cancer and is prioritizing time with those closest to him.<\/p>\n

He posted a letter addressed to his fans and extended baseball family on Instagram.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to share an update regarding my health,” wrote Sandberg, 65. “It’s been a challenging few months as I have been going through treatment on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

“While I am continuing to fight, I’m looking forward to making the most of every day with my loving family and friends.<\/p>\n

Ryne Sandberg threw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field before the Cubs’ home opener this season.\u00a0David Banks-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

“I haven’t been to Wrigley Field as much as I hoped in the first half but I’m watching every game and am excited for the second half.”<\/p>\n

He threw out the first pitch, surrounded by fellow Cubs greats, before the home opener on April 4.<\/p>\n

In January 2024, Sandberg announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, then last August announced he was cancer-free. In December, he said the cancer had recurred and spread. He vowed to “continue to be positive, strong, and fight to beat this.”<\/p>\n

Sandberg spent 15 of his 16 major league seasons with the Cubs, along with 13 games at the start of his career for the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (1981).<\/p>\n

Sandberg was the 1984 National League MVP, when he batted a career-high .314 with a major-league-leading 19 triples and 114 runs scored as well as 19 home runs, 84 RBIs and 32 stolen bases.<\/p>\n

The second baseman also earned the second of his nine career Gold Glove awards that year. He was a 10-time All-Star selection and a seven-time Silver Slugger honoree, batting .285 with 282 home runs and 1,061 RBIs in his 2,164-game career.<\/p>\n

Sandberg, who was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005, also spent parts of three seasons (2013-15) as the Phillies’ manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 16, 2025, 01:09 PM ET Chicago Cubs legend Ryne Sandberg said Wednesday he is “continuing to fight”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-14687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}