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Sept. 26, 2011 / 10:48 AM

John Lackey files for divorce; wife has cancer

John Lackey of the Boston Red Sox throws a pitch in a game against the Los Angeles Angels April. 24, 2011, in Anaheim, Calif. UPI/Lori Shepler.

John Lackey of the Boston Red Sox throws a pitch in a game against the Los Angeles Angels April. 24, 2011, in Anaheim, Calif. UPI/Lori Shepler. | License Photo

BOSTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Boston Red Sox pitcher John Lackey has filed for divorce from his wife of three years who is battling breast cancer, documents show.

Krista Lackey underwent a double mastectomy in March and has been having chemotherapy, sources close to the family told TMZ.com.

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Lackey filed for divorce in Texas, saying in the documents "the marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities."

The couple, who married in November, 2008, had a prenuptial agreement, the divorce papers said.

The divorce papers identified the couple only by their initials, a tactic also used by Tony Parker and Eva Longoria and Sandra Bullock and Jesse James in their Texas divorces, TMZ reported.

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