Pinterest Instagram Facebook Youtube On January 1, 1943, Negro Leagues home run king Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown and is admitted to St. Francis Hospital for a brief time, his recommended treatment is rest. After his release, he will report to training camp in Hot Springs, Arizona with the Homestead Grays in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Later in the year, the power-hitting catcher is diagnosed with a brain tumor after falling into a coma but elects not to have the surgery for its removal, and as a consequence will suffer from headaches until his death in 1947 at the age of 35 years-old.
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