RickD
02-09-2012, 01:36 PM
The idea: You are retired, people have forgotten about you or only bring your name up now and then. You need money so you decide to write a book.
Hmm....what sells and gets people talking today? Oh yeah drug use.
The Player: Oil Can Boyd. With a nickname referencing alcohol consumption, "Oil Can" comes from his beer-drinking days in his youth in Meridian, Miss., where beer was known as "oil." Is it any suprise that Boyd used cocaine over half his career. Of course, now he claims he could have won twice as many games if he had been clean.
Boyd will name names and share details of his coke-head playing days, including how he played high as a kite!
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/02/oil-can-boyd-admits-frequent-use-of-cocaine-during-career/1
He wasn't the only major leaguer using cocaine in the 1980s. Players from Hall of Famer Paul Molitor to Keith Hernandez to Tim Raines to countless others admitted using the drug. It was the thing to do.
From coke to steroids, has the game ever been drug free?
Heck Reggie Jackson admitted to using "Greenies" in the 70's. How many HoF members used drugs? One day, the taint of steroids will be like other drugs and the players who used will get in the Hall. Sad, sad, sad.
Hmm....what sells and gets people talking today? Oh yeah drug use.
The Player: Oil Can Boyd. With a nickname referencing alcohol consumption, "Oil Can" comes from his beer-drinking days in his youth in Meridian, Miss., where beer was known as "oil." Is it any suprise that Boyd used cocaine over half his career. Of course, now he claims he could have won twice as many games if he had been clean.
Boyd will name names and share details of his coke-head playing days, including how he played high as a kite!
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/02/oil-can-boyd-admits-frequent-use-of-cocaine-during-career/1
He wasn't the only major leaguer using cocaine in the 1980s. Players from Hall of Famer Paul Molitor to Keith Hernandez to Tim Raines to countless others admitted using the drug. It was the thing to do.
From coke to steroids, has the game ever been drug free?
Heck Reggie Jackson admitted to using "Greenies" in the 70's. How many HoF members used drugs? One day, the taint of steroids will be like other drugs and the players who used will get in the Hall. Sad, sad, sad.