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Originally Posted by Tyranusberg
Signed '86 Topps and Donruss cards of Ramon Romero are very tough.
Legend has it he was killed in a drug deal in New York City in the late 80s.
Efforts to find him in the DR apparently were stymied by the fact that there was a different Ramon Romero playing in the White Sox organization at the same time.
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He died in 1988 but his death wasn't confirmed until 2014. He fell 6 stories while trying to use a fire escape to run from police officers who had witnessed him selling crack cocaine. Details can be found in this article:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ramon_Romero