I had stage three malignant nodular melanoma - the most aggressive form of skin cancer.

The cause was complications of nodular melanoma, said Mark Hosler, another founding member of the band.

He was pitching Saturday nine months after getting his first treatment for nodular sclerosis, a form of Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

He underwent a series of tests after he felt a lump on his neck last winter, and doctors told him at the end of the season that he had Stage 2 nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma.

He described it as a vague nodular density.