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Kuhn lifts drug suspensions
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NEW YORK — Willie Wilson,
Willie Aikens and Jerry Marlin,
the first active baseball players
ever sentenced to prison for
drug violations, Tuesday had
their suspensions lifted by Com
missioner Bowie Kuhn who
warned them of any renewed
involvement with drugs.
The three players, each of
whom served three months in
prison after pleading guilty to
trying to buy cocaine, will be
able to play beginning Wednes
day. Wilson, the American
League batting champion in
1982, is the only one of the
three still with the Kansas City
Royals. Aikens has been traded
to the Toronto Blue Jays and
Martin was signed as a free
agent by the New York Mets.
“Obviously, Manager Bobby
Cox and Vice President of Base
ball Operations Pat Gillick are
pleased he’s been reinstated,”
said Blue Jays spokesman How
ard Starkman. “It means quite a
boost to the club.
“We now have a lefthanded
hitter with some power. Willie
will be used as a left-handed
designated hitter and relief for
Willie Upshaw at first. We are
happy for Willie Aikens. He’s
done his penance and now he
can gel on with his profession,
which is playing baseball.”
Mets general manager Frank
Gashen said, “We are glad that
it’s over and we’re looking for
ward to have Jerry make a con
tribution to our ballclub.”
A Mets spokesman said Mar
tin will likely be activated in
time for Wednesday’s game at
San Francisco. Since New York
is at the 25-man limit, a player
will have to be dropped in order
to make room for Martin.
The players pleaded guilty to
misdemeanor drug charges in
Kansas City last October and
were sentenced to three months
in prison by United States Mag
istrate J. Milton Sullivant. Wil
son and Aikens were also fined
$5,000 each while Martin was
fined $2,500.
Sullivant at first sentenced
each player to the maximum
term of one year in prison but
immediately reduced the terms
to three months.
“I reviewed with each player
his involvement with drugs, his
compliance with probationary
terms (which extend for ap
proximately two years) and the
aftercare and community serv
ice which will be continuing,”
Kuhn said in a statement. “It is
important each man under
stands the potential conse
quences of any renewed connec
tion with drugs.
“I am pleased to say both the
testing we have administered
and the aftercare have pro
duced good results to this point.
I have also received from each
of the players his continuing as
surance of intent to comply with
all aspects of his probatiionary
program, an expression of re
morse for his drug involvement
which I believe sincere.”
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lesbian affair with another
player.
Ronni Keisler, 47, was among
the first witnesses in Parsons’
$75 million libel suit against
Sports Illustrated magazine for
a 1982 article depicting the
coach as an admitted lesbian.
Keisler, mother of senior
Brantley Southers, said her
daughter told her Parsons and
former player, Tina Buck of At
lanta, were “so in love they’ll be
together for the rest of their
lives.”
“She said they held hands,
laid on the couch together and
kissed,” said Mrs. Keiser.
Keisler said she contacted
university President James
Holderman demanding the
school take action. She said she
feared her daughter would also
be drawn into an affair with
Parsons.
“The only thing that was ever
in it for me was to save my
daughter from this woman,”
Keisler said.
Parsons, 36, now a waitress in
Atlanta, was once one of the
most successful female basket
ball coaches in the nation. She
claims her career was destroyed
by the article, and she has had
to drift from town to town and
leave when her identity is dis
covered.
Holderman testified Tuesday
that he dispatched assistant ath
letic director Ron Dickerson to
confront Parsons with the alle
gations Dec. 31, 1981, and she
resigned on the spot.
But Columbia attorney Jean
Toal testified that Parsons de
cided to withdraw her resigna
tion. Mrs. Toal said that during
negotiations with the university
to settle the matter. Parsons
denied having an affair with
Buck, who has dropped out of
school.
Three days after the initial
resignation, Toal said her client
agreed to voluntarily resign in
exchange for a $20,000 cash
settlement and an agreement
with university officials that nei
ther side would comment pub
licly on the case.
Toal said the “keep-silent
agreement” was subsequently
violated by school officials, who
were quoted in the six-page
Sports Illustrated article that
appeared a month after the res
ignation. School officials, who
were orginally named in the
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NEW YORK — The ballplayer
was talking to me about drugs,
saying he had never used them
in his life. What’s more, he was
sure he never would.
He was so positive, he made
me curious. I asked him why he
was so sure.
“My mother would murder
me,” he said. “She’d have a fit if
she ever found out I was fooling
around with the stuff.”
This particular player is no
kid. He’s past 30, considerably
beyond the voting age. Physi
cally, he’s one of the bigger
players in both leagues, going
better than 6-fool-4 and 230.
By no stretch of the imagina
tion is he any Mama’s Boy, ei
ther. He has not led a sheltered
life and owns the satisfaction of
knowing he has made his mark
in his chosen professional.
The fact that Mother’s Day
was just last Sunday is one of
the reasons that made me think
about what this player had to
say about his mother. The more
I thought about it, the more I
realized he felt no different
about his mother than all, or
certainly most, of the others
did.
Every day, we hear of some
other player turning himself in
for being involved with drugs.
The scenario usually is the
same. The player tells a team
mate he trusts (who very likely
knows about it already) and
then the two go to the manager,
who, in turn, usually goes to the
general manager.
After a period of rehabilita
tion, a press conference is called
and once that is over the player
tries to put happened behind
him. Does he ever want to talk
about it?
Of course not.
Who does want to talk about
it? Few of those foolish enough
to have become involved with
drugs ever are anxious to go
over all the sordid details again.
It hurts too much.
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who has done something wrong
and finally decides somebody
else should know will tell a lot of
different people except one.
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teammate, his manager, his
general manager, and some
doctor he never saw before in a
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