Ryan Freel, a former Major League Baseball player who committed suicide last year, was suffering from the degenerative brain disease CTE, his family said Sunday, according to The Florida Times-Union.

Patrick Freel knows mortality all too well. Life, as he learned the hard way, can be gone in an instant. It was three days before Christmas in 2012, when his son Ryan took his own life. As we approach ...

Former Cincinnati Reds player Ryan Freel's father is asking for fans to send any baseball cards they have of him in order to preserve his memory. Freel committed suicide in 2012 at the age of 36 years ...

Ryan Freel committed suicide via gun shot last week at age 36 and now his family is hoping that science can provide some answers about a possible link to his numerous concussions as an athlete.

My phone rang at 11:42 p.m. Saturday. It was one of Ryan Freel's former teammates. He was shocked and saddened by the news that Freel had committed suicide on Saturday. He wasn't alone. When I worked ...