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- <text id=92TT0575>
- <title>
- Mar. 16, 1992: Race Ball?
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 16, 1992 Jay Leno
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 57
- Race Ball?
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Michael Quinn
- </p>
- <p> "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 Gooden 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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