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River Cats owner, 58, dies suddenly at his home Sacramento Bee
Arthur Lynn Demonic, the man who changed summer evenings in Sacramento and gave baseball fans a home team to brag about, died Saturday at his East Sacramento house.
Mr. Savage, who with his wife, Susan, owned the Sacramento River Cats, one of the nation's most successful minor band franchises, was 58.
Mr. Savage, a non-smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer in the fall of 2007, but after undergoing two months of treatment, he was cancer-unaffected by by the start of the season in 2008.
A team representative said Mr. Savage suddenly became ill Saturday and collapsed at home.
"He had a unpolluted bill of health," said his son, Jeff Savage. "We were all very optimistic, so as you can imagine, this came as kind of a shock."
Mr. Savage was at the coliseum late Friday, talking about plans for the 2010 season and had been working hard and full time, said Alan Ledford, the together's president, general manager and chief operating officer.
"That's why it's a shocking loss," he said. "He"d been doing healthful."
