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The Pittsburgh drug trials of 1985 were the catalyst for a Major League Baseball-related cocaine scandal. Several current and former members of the Pittsburgh Pirates – Dale Berra, Lee Lacy, Lee Mazzilli, John Milner, Dave Parker, Rod Scurry – and other notable major league players – Willie Aikens, Vida Blue, Enos Cabell, Keith Hernandez, Jeffrey Leonard, Tim Raines, Lonnie Smith and ...
Raines would later testify at the Pittsburgh drug trials in September 1985. In 1983 , Raines stole a career high of 90 bases, the second-highest total in franchise history, and scored 133 runs, a franchise record.
Even Kevin Koch, who played the Pirates' mascot, was implicated for buying cocaine and introducing players to a drug dealer. Ultimately, seven drug dealers pleaded guilty on various charges. On February 28, 1986, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth suspended a number of players for varying lengths of time. A primary condition of reinstatement ...
Baseball's Hall of Fame has three new members as Tim Raines, Ivan Rodriguez, and Jeff Bagwell have been elected, while one candidate came agonizingly close.
Nearly half of all 3,100 counties in America have no doctors certified to prescribe buprenorphine by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to a Huffington Post analysis. Hundreds of counties have very few certified doctors.
Despite past plea deals, U.S. prosecutors lost a major clinical drug-trials case in federal court. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
The four top national leaders of the Proud Boys, convicted for seditious conspiracy for Jan. 6 but now freed by Trump, say they have lofty goals.
December 16 – San Diego Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is sentenced to 45 days in jail following his third arrest on drug possession charges, this time on the U.S.-Mexico border. Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth bars Hoyt from baseball on February 25, 1987. An arbitrator cut Hoyt's suspension to sixty days in mid-June and ordered the Padres ...