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It's rare for someone with glioblastoma to live more than two years after diagnosis because the tumors are apt to return after surgery and chemotherapy, Thompson said. According to the South Jersey Times, Daulton is the fifth Phillies player to be diagnosed with a brain tumor. Tug McGraw died of the disease in 2004. Watch video about Gary Carter, a baseball player who died of a brain tumor last year.
McGraw was born in Martinez, California, to Frank Edwin Big Mac McGraw, Sr. and Mable McKenna. He got the nickname Tug from his mother because of the particularly aggressive way he breast-fed. Frank Senior was the great-grandson of Irish immigrants. McGraw graduated from St. Vincent Ferrer High School in Vallejo, California, in 1962. He enrolled in Solano Community College and signed with the New York Mets as an amateur free agent on June 12, 1964 upon graduation.