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Now 20 years later, Jenks is in the fight for his life after it was announced that he is battling cancer. The Chicago White Sox’s former closer is battling cancer According to MLB.com Scott ...

Former MLB closer Bobby Jenks, who as a rookie in 2005 secured the last out of the Chicago White Sox's World Series clincher, is battling advanced stomach cancer. Jenks, now 43, disclosed the ...

a form of stomach cancer. “You know, the [expletive] I was doing in my 20s and early 30s, no normal person would have survived,” said Jenks, who the White Sox regularly listed at 275 pounds.