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Hall of Infamy
Posted By: warshawlaw
I was at a dinner meeting of a trade group last night and we got to talking about baseball. We decided to try to come up with a list of all the crooks who've played the game in the majors. We came up with the following (convicted criminals only): |
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Posted By: Jamie
Long list of druggies: Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Alan Wiggins, Steve Howe, etc. |
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Posted By: dennis
orlando cepeda got caught with pot. wil cordero was a wife beater(not sure if convicted) |
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Posted By: J Levine
Jeff Nelson, Gabe Kapler for the incident last year at Yankee Stadium, Albert Belle domestic violence, Cobb for assualt, Billy Martin, Rafeal Furcal, Strawberry, Milton Bradley (and many others) for DUI, that is a quick list... |
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Posted By: horseyoucameinon
If you want to talk about a hall of infamy, let's talk about the NBA! A WHOLE litany of druggies, sexual predators, violence prone spoiled bad boys there. |
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Posted By: Anonymous
Hank Thompson (1st African American to play in NL and AL), George Steinbrenner (politics), Ron Leflore (common Tiger fans, guy got a second chance when he was discovered playing baseball in the Michigan prison system) |
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Posted By: dennis
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Posted By: Richard Masson
Didn't he shoot his wife? I remember firing cap guns from the left field pavillion at Dodger Stadium. |
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Posted By: Jay Miller
Richard-Cedeno supposedly shot some woman he was shacked up in a Santo Domingo hotel room with, but it wasn't his wife. He got off with a $100 fine for involuntary manslaughter. Here are a few good ones: |
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Posted By: Brian H (misunderestimated)
This list would be truly incomplete without Hal Chase.... considered by many Baseball's most corrupt player (even though many Ebay sellers seem to think he's in the Hall of Fame). |
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Posted By: Rhett
The craziest lunatic ever to play baseball is without a doubt Marty Bergen. Bergen was apparently insane and one day he finally "lost it" altogether and hacked his wife up, then took an axe to his two children, and as if that weren't enough he cut his throat with a razor so deep that he nearly decapitated himself. This guy was as insane as they come. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
maybe I should call the Hall of Fame Librarian...Jay Miller, where can I Read All About It? |
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Posted By: Jerry Spillman
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Posted By: Greg Ecklund
Wasn't that from when he was playing "bumper cars" with Esther in the parking lot of a stadium? |
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Posted By: 823dek
Are you sure that this is a vintage board ? |
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Posted By: Pcelli60
Mike Donlin (Turkey Mike) did a year in jail for punching out and very badly hurting a guy while drunk. I believe it was in Cincinnati.. |
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Posted By: David Vargha
Pedro Guerrero? |
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Posted By: David Vargha
Kevin Mitchell |
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Posted By: Brian H (misunderestimated)
Comiskey & Anson (see my post above) |
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Posted By: Julie
Frank Francisco, last month, threw a chair into the stands, breaking a woman's nose--she is sueing him for a very healthy sum. He's of the Texas Rangers, and it happerned in the Oakland Coluseum. |
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Posted By: runscott
I normally sit in the nose-bleed seats, but even from decent seats it's rare that the players can actually hear the heckling - you have to be fairly close. The last game I was at I sat very close to the action and was amazed at the filth I heard the Braves fans laying on the Astros players - comments about their wives, etc. Yes, the players could hear them, and yes, the looks on their faces showed the same disgust that I was feeling. It doesn't warrant throwing objects in the stands, or even responding, but the ushers could be trained to keep an eye on the fans sitting closest to where the players walk, and toss their lousy *sses when they behave like they are from Philadelphia. |
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Posted By: Darren J Duet
I'm certain many guys like the Babe were drinker's during prohibition, but innocent until prove guilty. |
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Posted By: Sean Coe
"Baseball Babylon" by Dan Gutman mentions Clarkson slashing his wife as well as other scandals and misdeeds. One incident that sticks in my mind although I can't remember his name, was when a player attacked the pilot of a plane and had his head bashed in with a fire extinguisher? by the pilot or co-pilot. He for some reason just went crazy and could not be subdued until it became a life or death situation. |
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Posted By: Greg Ecklund
Sean, |
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Posted By: Sean Coe
Greg, yes that's the name, thanks. He apparently got booted from an American Airlines flight and chartered a plane. He had been drinking, but at the start of the flight was quiet and then ...chaos |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
Actually, we were looking for convicts, not merely heinous acts. That was what made it a challenge. We tried football too, but it was no fun because it was too easy to come up with convicted felon football players. |
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Posted By: canjond
What about Donnie Moore... I didn't see him mentioned yet. After losing to the Sox is 1986, he shot his wife and killed himself... |
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Posted By: dennis
K Brown 2004 post season |
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Posted By: shoo
I dont know if you would call him a crook or not but John Rocker |
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Posted By: john/z28jd
James Galvin once killed a whole bowl of grandma's homemade pudding and was forced to go thru life with the nickname 'Pud' |
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Posted By: John Spencer
One of the worst must be Lefty Grove who carried on a long-time affair with his son's wife. When the son found about it he committed suicide. If that isn't sick behavior then I don't know what is. |
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Hall of Infamy
Posted By: Marc S.
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