Darrell 'Doc' Rodgers dies at 52

Darrell "Doc" Rodgers, who hosted WLW-AM's "Extra Innings" show and previously worked as an assistant general manager for the Cincinnati Reds, passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 52.

Rodgers announced in 2010 that he had stage 4 lung cancer. Radio station officials confirmed that Rodgers lost his battle with cancer.

He was also a high school basketball official as well as a real estate agent for Wyoming's Coldwell Banker West Shell office.

More from a 2011 feature about Rodgers:

He told "Extra Innings" listeners back then about his bad migraine headaches. When his left knee, foot and arm went numb on May 23, he thought he was having a stroke.

Emergency room doctors found a brain tumor about the size of a quarter. In preparation for brain surgery on May 25, a full-body scan revealed that he had terminal stage 4, non-small-cell lung cancer that had spread to his brain.

He was stunned.

"I don't smoke. I don't drink. I eat more salads than I do red meat," said Rodgers, who lives in Springfield Township with his wife, Dorothy, and their two children, Jazmine, 12, and Kobe, 8.

Rodgers pitched six minor-league seasons for the San Francisco Giants and the Reds before accepting a position as a Reds' minor-league pitching coach.

In this 2013 YouTube video for LUNGevityFoundation, Rodgers discussed living with lung cancer.