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Kirby Puckett dies; baseball great championed glaucoma awareness

New York?When glaucoma suddenly stole vision from Minnesota Twins' Kirby Puckett's right eye and forced his retirement from Major League Baseball in 1996, it offered those in ophthalmology a remarkable opportunity to increase awareness about the disease.

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