St. Louis outfielder Oscar Taveras killed in car accident

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Oscar Taveras, the St. Louis Cardinals’ outfielder regarded as one of the majors’ top prospects, died Sunday in a car accident in his native Dominican Republic. He was 22.

Taveras was driving a two thousand fourteen Chevrolet Camaro at the time of the crash on a highway inbetween the beaches of Sosua and Cabarete in Puerto Plata, about two hundred fifteen miles north of the capital of Santo Domingo, said Col. Contine reading →