Longtime Boston Globe reporter Nick Cafardo died Thursday after collapsing outside the Boston Red Sox's spring training clubhouse.

Cafardo, 62, covered the Red Sox and Major League Baseball for more than three decades.

The newspaper said Cafardo appeared to have an embolism. The team's medical staff responded quickly but was unable to revive him.

Cafardo joined the Globe in 1989 from The (Quincy) Patriot Ledger, where he had been on the baseball beat. He continued to cover the Red Sox before switching to the New England Patriots in time for the team's first NFL championship, in 2001.

He returned to baseball and has covered baseball for the past 15 years, writing a Sunday notes package and an "On Baseball" column.