Tim Crews


Stanley Timothy Crews was a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched six seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, from to. Crews was part of the Dodgers team that won the 1988 World Series. At the end of the 1992 season, he became a free agent and signed with the Cleveland Indians on January 22, 1993.
On March 23, 1993, during spring training, Crews and his Indians teammate Steve Olin were killed in a boating accident on Crews's property on Little Lake Nellie in Clermont, Florida. Another teammate, Bob Ojeda, suffered serious head injuries and spent most of the season recovering. An investigation later found that Crews had driven the boat too fast into an unlighted dock and was impaired by a blood alcohol level of 0.14.
The deaths of Crews and Olin were the first active MLB players to die since Thurman Munson in. In their memory, the Cleveland Indians wore a patch their jerseys with their uniform numbers inside a baseball logo during the 1993 season. Olin's #31 was depicted on the left side, with an arrow above, while Crews's #52 was on the right, with a star above it. The Dodgers also wore a patch with Crews's #52 in 1993.
In 281 games, almost all in relief, he was 11–13 with 83 games finished and 15 saves, where for his career, Crews compiled a 3.44 earned run average in 423⅔ innings.