How pitcher, Vietnam veteran Rick Fisher found redemption and purpose after decades of drug addiction

How pitcher, Vietnam veteran Rick Fisher found redemption and purpose after decades of drug addiction

The morning after his fifth suicide attempt, Rick Fisher stumbled to a church and pounded on the doors. Deep in the throes of drug addiction at the time, the former MSU Denver pitcher made a plan to end his life the night before. Instead, he blacked out and ended up back at his house, passed out in his car. He woke up and made his way to Lakewood New Life Center. “I walked over there, and I was still really messed up,” Fisher recalled. “I felt l…