Member of SJ baseball dynasty killed in car accident

| Philadelphia Daily News | 06/21/2010 By Jason Nark

No South Jersey family has invested more of their lives in baseball than the Barths. And yesterday the sport gave them a few hours back, a doubleheader against West Deptford, a small reprieve from the tragedy that struck them earlier in the day. Authorities say that Bob Barth, 59, of Winslow Township, a longtime high-school teacher who coached baseball and basketball for decades in South Jersey, was traveling north on Route 42 in Bellmawr, Camden County, around 6:30 a.m. when his Mercury Mariner struck an abandoned vehicle near the Creek Road exit. New Jersey State Police said that Barth was ejected from the vehicle, which flipped over when he struck the car, and that he was not wearing a seatbelt. He was pronounced dead shortly afterward at Cooper University Hospital. Police did not say how the accident happened, but family members believe that Barth may have had a seizure or some other medical emergency.

They all knew where he was going.

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