Willie Mays Aikens
Subtitle: safe at home
By: Gregory Jordan
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781600786969
Subjects: Baseball players; Drug use; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports; Athletes; SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General; Biography
Description: "An intimate portrait of a tortured player, this biography culls interviews, letters, and the personal account of baseball legend Willie Mays Aikens. Touted from a young age as the next Reggie Jackson, Aikens' promising career quickly turned disastrous when he fell into drug abuse and was ultimately sentenced to the longest prison sentence ever given to a professional athlete in a drug case. Not only an exploration of baseball and culture in the 1980s, this book also delves into the United States justice and penal systems"--