Death
In the spring of 1989, at the age of 76, Lucadello was told by the Phillies that that year's draft would be his last for them. Apparently unable to cope with the impending loss of his work -- "the fear of not being wanted," Mike Schmidt called it—Lucadello committed suicide by a gunshot wound to the head on May 8, 1989 on a baseball field in Fostoria. The field, now named for Lucadello, features a monument honoring the former scout as "Baseball's Friend."
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