FARGO — February is American Heart Month, and a beloved local baseball coaching legend is encouraging people to schedule heart screenings. One likely saved his life.
If you know Bucky Burgau, and many do, you likely know him from the baseball field.
A longtime coach at Concordia College, where the baseball diamond is named after him, and with the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks, he always seemed to be healthy.
“I was throwing 30 to 40 minutes of batting practice a day. And I am a walker. I'd walk. I'm a hunter,” Burgau said.
Despite that active lifestyle, Burgau’s wife encouraged him to have a heart screening in 2024. Because of that screening, doctors found a 75% blockage in what they call the “widowmaker artery.”
“I was, I was shocked,” Burgau said.
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