Cardinals use Busch Stadium lights to pay tribute to Oscar Taveras

Tom Gatto

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As thousands mourned the death of Oscar Taveras in his native Dominican Republic on Tuesday, the Cardinals were also paying tribute to the late right fielder.

Taveras, 22, died in an automobile accident Sunday in the Dominican. His girlfriend, Edilia Arvelo, was also killed in the crash.

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Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.