Keith Hernandez a candid conversation with the mets' infielder on baseball's now-standard topics: money, cocaine, injuries, fistfights--and, yes, love of the game
"Do I have doubts about picking up where I left off? Sure I do. When you
miss two months, forget about exercising to get back in shape--there's just
no substitute for playing nine innings every day."
"I'd stopped enjoying the coke high by '81. But I was still snorting in '82,
and I'd sit there and say, 'Why am I doing this?' I was down to minimal use
by '83, but the urges stayed with me through '85."
"Financially, I should be set for life, but I got ambushed, waylaid by the
past. When I got divorced, I got clobbered. There were other problems. I
was set, but that option's not there anymore. And I'm pissed."
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