Former Vancouver Canadians manager has COVID-19, fighting for his life: fiancée
Posted March 31, 2020 4:44 pm.
Last Updated March 31, 2020 8:55 pm.
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A former Major League Baseball player who managed the Vancouver Canadians is fighting for his life in Louisiana after contracting COVID-19, says his fiancée.
Webster Garrison, 54, managed the Canadians in their second season at the class-A level.
His fiancée, Nikki Trudeaux, posted on Instagram over the weekend that Garrison was on a ventilator in a COVID-19 isolation unit.
I can’t wait to see this amazing smile again!!!!!! God I’m believing and trusting in you!!???????????????????????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/MnJD73TEJB
— Nikki Trudeaux-Garrison (@cajunurse911) March 29, 2020
She said she also has the novel coronavirus.
“I am blessed to be able to cry out to God and ask for healing of my body and lungs unlike so many others,” she says in her post.
“This man, my fiancée, Webster Garrison, the love of my life, is on a ventilator in the hospital, fighting for his life and I can’t even be at his side!”
Garrison played five games in the majors with the Oakland A’s in 1996. He managed the Canadians in 2001.
