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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 sentenceever given to a professional athlete in a drug case Not only an exploration of baseball and culture in the s this book also delves into the United States justice and penal systems