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.
False rumors that Dr. Franklin had syphilis and died from it abound on the Internet. No modern scholarly examination of his life makes any such claim. When asked the question in 2003, Walter Isaacson, author of the seminal biography Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, replied Franklin had the gout and kidney stones, and he died at 84 of a ruptured lung artery, but he never had a venereal disease..