Childers played four years at Georgia State and is the school's all-time leader in walks (120) and No. 2 overall in sacrifices (28). The scrappy second baseman hit .307 with a .405 on-base percentage ...

A former minor league baseball player and ex-police officer has died after rushing to save swimmers in a rip current.

Anderson "Chase" Childers died while on vacation after rescuing five strangers who trapped in a rip current off the South ...

A former police officer and ex-professional baseball player is being hailed as a hero after he drowned while saving swimmers from a rip current off the coast of South Carolina.

Officials said Childers -- a former professional baseball player and police officer -- and one other individual entered the water to help a family of five.

A congressman took to the U.S. House of Representatives floor on Wednesday to honor a former Cobb County police officer who died while saving a family from a rip current earlier this month.

Childers was on vacation with his family on Pawleys Island when he jumped into action to rescue a family in distress in the ...

Childers was a former professional baseball player, spending 2009 and 2010 in the Baltimore Orioles farm system. After retiring from the sport, he worked as a Cobb County police officer and received a ...

Anderson 'Chase' Childers, 38, who played second basemen and shortstop for a Baltimore Orioles farm team, was on vacation on Pawleys Island with his wife, Nataley, and their three children on ...

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Chase Childers, a former minor league baseball player and ex-police officer, has died after rushing into the ocean to save swimmers in a rip current, according to ...

Authorities say Chase Childers died after heroically jumping into the water in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, to rescue a family of five from rip currents.

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. — Chase Childers, a former Orioles minor league baseball player and ex-police officer, has died after rushing into the ocean to save swimmers in a rip current, according to ...