South Jersey Baseball Star Dies in Crash After Signing Pro Deal Eddie Davis Published: August 23, 2025 GoFundMe

What a tragic twist of fate for a promising local athlete and a genuinely good person.

Nick Danbrowney, 22, one of South Jersey's most promising baseball prospects, died in a car crash on August 18th in North Carolina, just months after leaving Jersey's Ramapo College as the school's all-time strikeout leader and signing a contract to play professional baseball.

Nick, a Barnegat native, was an all-star right-handed pitcher for Barnegat High.

After graduating from Ramapo this spring, he signed a contract to play with the Bakersfield, CA. Train Robbers of the PECOS League.

Talented Local Baseball Player Dies in Crash

According to local news reports from the Outer Banks

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