Gammons returns
ESPN says Hall of Fame reporter Peter Gammons, who suffered a brain aneurysm in late June, will be on the 3 p.m. PT edition of "SportsCenter" and the 4 p.m. PT edition of "Baseball Tonight" on Wednesday (Sept. 20). Gammons willl report from Fenway Park, where the Red Sox are hosting Minnesota.
An ESPN spokesman said that future appearances will be scheduled as Gammons is comfortable with doing more.
On the ESPN.com website, Gammons has posted his first column since coming back and explains how his aneurysm happened:
"Honestly, I remember very little except that I got a splitting headache driving to the Gold's Gym in Mashpee, Mass. At 7 a.m. on June 27, I pulled into a parking lot to sleep. I remember very little about all the people who saved the life of someone whose sister, Anne Durant, died of the same type of aneurysm a decade earlier.
"A wonderful person named Agnes Rockett-Bolduc watched me pull into a parking lot, tried to talk to me and immediately called 911. Within minutes, or, really, seconds, the guys at Mashpee Fire and Rescue had me in an ambulance screaming for the Falmouth Hospital, and Dr. John Mendleson, where they immediately diagnosed that I had suffered an aneurysm and needed to get to Boston. So Bill, Christopher and Tim were flying me in their helicopter toward Brigham and Women's Hospital in a matter of minutes."