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- Updated: December 6, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — When Shannon Forde passed away during Spring Training 2016, then-White Sox manager Robin Ventura paid heartfelt tribute to his friend.
“It breaks your heart. Married, with two young kids. She was just a sweet person,” said Ventura, who played for the Mets from 1999 to 2001 and got to know Forde, New York’s senior director of media relations, who passed away at 44 after a long battle with breast cancer.
“You deal with so many people within your organization, but you know, even when you are gone from the Mets, you are still keeping in touch, and it just breaks your heart,” Ventura said. “I know my family is very sad about it. She was …
