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- PEOPLE, Page 57Race Ball?
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- BY MICHAEL QUINN
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- "I'm happy for everyone who reads this book that they can
- now meet the Darryl Strawberry I know -- the real Darryl." Thus
- says New York Mets pitcher Dwight Good en in the foreword to
- Darryl, ex-teammate Strawberry's new book. Gooden might have
- been less happy if he had read page 214, where the real Darryl
- suggests, "If Gooden was using cocaine during the 1986 World
- Series, I wouldn't have been surprised" -- a line typical of
- Straw's fiery account of his eight-year battle with Mets
- management. The L.A. Dodger also says of his former bosses, "The
- Mets put black ballplayers in a second-class role and paid them
- second-class salaries." While insisting that his speculation
- about Gooden was "blown out of proportion," Strawberry
- proclaims, "I stand firm" on the charge of major-league racism.
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