According to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe, the Red Sox could be a team to watch for Eric Hosmer if the Royals shop him this summer. Hosmer, Lorenzo Cain and Mike Moustakas are headed for free agency and the Royals could shop all three if the team falls out of contention by the trade deadline.
1950: Acclaimed author George Orwell dies The writer, George Orwell, has died after a three-year battle against tuberculosis. Until the last, news had been positive and it was hoped Mr Orwell was improving. On Friday morning he had a long talk with a friend about his plans for the future.
George Washington probably died from pneumonia causing in acute epiglottitis, which causes death by inflaming the epiglottis and slowly constricting the throat until the patient suffocates. He probably caught his sickness from his habitual horseback rides, which he took in the middle of a snowy day in December, then choosing not to change his wet clothes because there were guests visiting Mount Vernon.