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- <text id=91TT0158>
- <title>
- Jan. 21, 1991: Died:Alan Wiggins
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 21, 1991 January 15:Deadline For War
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 70
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- <p> DIED. Alan Wiggins, 32, fleet-foot outfielder and second
- baseman whose use of drugs cut short a promising career; of
- tuberculosis and other illnesses his family attributed to his
- substance-abuse problems; in Los Angeles. In his seven seasons
- with the San Diego Padres and Baltimore Orioles, Wiggins batted .259 and stole 242 bases. In 1984 his five stolen bases in a
- game tied the modern National League record. Wiggins underwent
- drug rehabilitation three times, and was suspended indefinitely
- in 1987.
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- </body></article>
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