Overview
- Caputo’s family, which posted on his X account Thursday, said he died of cancer.
- He disclosed a Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis in early January and called the prognosis a death sentence.
- He said the illness was sudden and that two other serious ailments put him in intensive care for several days.
- He spent 37 years at the Oakland Press before continuing his work on 97.1 The Ticket and FOX 2 Sports Works.
- Fans and colleagues remembered his encyclopedic recall that earned the nickname “The Book,” along with his roles as a Baseball Hall of Fame voter and Heisman voter.