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  1. Sports Great Darryl Strawberry (Sports Great Books) by John Albert Torres, Michael John Sullivan, 1990-08
  2. Recovering Life by Charisse Strawberry, Darryl Strawberry, et all 1999-11-15
  3. Roger Clemens/Darryl Strawberry by Richard J. Brenner, 1989-03
  4. Darryl Strawberry: From ghetto kid to star slugger ; written by Margaret Birth ; art by Greg Fox ; lettering by Susan Dorne ; research by Kevin Birth and ... Herb Shapiro (Baseball superstars comics) by Margaret Birth, 1992
  5. Slouching Toward Fargo:: A Two-Year Saga Of Sinners And St. Paul Saints At The Bottom Of The Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie And Me by Neal Karlen, 1999-04-06
  6. Darryl by Darryl Strawberry, 1993-03-01
  7. High and Tight:: The Rise and Fall of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry by Bob Klapisch, 1996-04-14
  8. Sports Illustrated July 9 1990 (The Amazin' Mets. Darryl Strawberry and New York Turn it Around.) by Various, 1990
  9. Hard Learnin' by Darryl Strawberry, Don Gold, 1990-11-01
  10. The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw by Michael Sokolove, 2006-03-28
  11. All-Pro Baseball Stars '84
  12. HUSTLE: MYTH, LIFE AND LIES OF PETE ROSE: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw by Michael Sokolove, 1992-01-15

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What's the greatest high school baseball team of all time? Some experts say the 1979 Cougars of Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, CA had the best collection of players ever. Professional major league baseball teams drafted most of their starting players. The book from Michael Sokolove, The Ticket Out , looks back at the team that played in the championship game of the Los Angeles City baseball championships twenty-five years ago. There is a web site on The Los Angeles City baseball championship at Dodger Stadium . It reports that Crenshaw High School lost the finals of the 1979 City Championship to Granada Hills, 10-4. There is even a summary of the 1979 championship game from that web site. Granada took a 2-0 lead, then Crenshaw rallied for three runs in the third inning. With two outs, Granada Coach Darryl Stroh came to the mound to change pitchers. He had someone warming up in the bullpen, but Stroh wanted the toughest guy on his team to work out of his toughest situation. He beckoned his third baseman, who had not pitched in six weeks. The third baseman was NFL Star John Elway . Elway struck out Carl Jones to end the third inning rally. With Crenshaw still leading 3-2, Elway had to face Darryl Strawberry after the first two batters got on base in the fifth inning. The fifth inning was the time when Crenshaw had consistently started game-winning rallies throughout the 1979 season. Instead, Coach Brooks Hurst asked Strawberry to bunt. The lead runner was forced at third, the runner at second was caught trying to steal third, and Chris Brown struck out to end the Crenshaw threat. Granada then scored six runs on three hits in the bottom of the 5th inning for the lead they never relinquished.

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Berkeley, 1990 Darryl Strawberry tells the story of his life in baseball after the 1989 season through ghostwriter Don Gold in Hard Learnin. This book was not a big seller when it was published ten years ago. Some Met fans bought the book because Darryl was a big part of the Mets in 1990. I found this book on sale from a street vendor who had set up tent just outside the local laundromat. I had just put a load of laundry in the washing machine, so I was looking for something to read. This vendor had Hard Learnin marked down to fifty cents, so I bought it with few expectations. Darryl signed his first professional contract in 1980 and he made his major league debut with the Mets in 1983. He did not spent a lot of time in the minor leagues, but Darryl had remarkably few words about his experiences in the bushes. Sure, there were a couple of stories about Starvin Marvin in Kingsport and his unnamed friend from California who went to school in Jackson while Darryl played Double A ball there. His roommate Lloyd McClendon and his manager Gene Dusan at Lynchburg helped Darryl through his one bump in the road, in Class A ball. Darryl says he became so frustrated at his lack of progress that he did not show up for a game one day. He did not give us details, but Darryl tells us that Coach Dusan was compassionate and considerate.

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The Ticket Out tells the story of about a dozen prodigiously talented baseball players at Los Angeles's Crenshaw High School in the late 1970s. In author Michael Sokolove's account, they played with the flair and precision of Major Leaguers when still only kids and were scouted with history-making intensity. Nearly the whole of Crenshaw's 1979 team was drafted into pro ball, yet with the exception of Darryl Strawberry, it's unlikely you've ever heard of any of them. Their story as told by Sokolove resonates... more info Underperforms: This book had the potential to be very very good and frankly fell short. The author, rather than follow the various players with anecdotes, instead seems to write the same paragraph over and over again about how the players had trouble coping with real life situation as a result of being coddled in high school. I've read books about individual players and most authors will let you live those players lives through events they faced over a period of years. This book is just way short on actual events. i.e....

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DARRYL STRAWBERRY seems to have a hard time just saying no to cocaine. For the third time in 10 years, Strawberry has entered a treatment center to deal with his addiction to the drug, and he has been suspended from baseball for a year for failing his drug test. My first thought on heating this news was: What's the matter with him? Can't he just say no, if only for the few more years that his knees hold out? He sure must like cocaine a lot. My second thought was: Gee, Strawberry sure is lucky he's rich and famous, and that all sorts of people like George Steinbrenner care about him, because if he were poor and not famous, odds are that he'd be sitting behind bars right now, probably for violating probation or parole with a dirty urine sample. This country is full of people whose only offense is an inability to say no to cocaine. Some go to fancy rehabs, some sort it out at home, and the unlucky ones get to think it over in jail or prison. My third thought was: Strawberry's addicted. He's got a disease, or a disability. This is not a case of moral weakness but of metabolic dysfunction. We don't punish folks for their diseases, or disabilities. If anything, we try to make accommodations for their disabilities so long as they don't pose direct threats to others. If we really believe that drug addiction is a disease, then there is no ethical or medical justification for depriving him of his livelihood for manifesting a symptom of the disease. Moreover, why in this case do we always blame the patient? Maybe the fault lies with the treatment provider.

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He is at the age when it's all about the future, yet his name can't help but bring up memories of past failures.
He is Darryl Strawberry. Junior. As if the name doesn't carry enough of a burden on its own, the suffix seems to bring in the unwanted weight of others.
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