Chase Childers, a former Orioles prospect and college baseball player, died saving swimmers from a rip current in North ...

Chase Childers, a former Baltimore Orioles minor league prospect, died a hero in South Carolina after rushing into floodwaters to save a group of swimmers — sacrificing his life to protect theirs.

It happened on a Sunday afternoon at South Carolina’s Pawleys Island, a popular getaway about 26 miles from Myrtle Beach. The post Former MLB Prospect Lost to Sea in Front of Family During Heroic ...

Officials said Childers -- a former professional baseball player and police officer -- and one other individual entered the ...