Biography of darryl strawberry

"All that was left now was to blow his brains out and hope the life insurance policy would take care of his family,"says Bergen Record sportswriter Bob Klapisch on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.

Strawberry helped the Yankees win their first World Series in 18 years with their victory over Atlanta in 1996.

What he didn't achieve in baseball was more the story of Darryl Strawberry's career than what he actually accomplished.

His 335 home runs and 1,000 RBI seem impressive until one considers how many more he might have recorded had he avoided drugs and alcohol.

In his 17-year career with the Mets, Dodgers, Giants and Yankees, Strawberry was suspended three times by Major League Baseball for substance abuse.

The Mets' all-time leader in homers (252) and RBI (733), the lean rightfielder burst on the scene in 1983 as a 21-year-old rookie who became revered for his smooth left-handed swing, with a sweet last name impossible to forget.

He was part of four world cham