He was a can't miss prospect who had been bred to play baseball and do nothing else.
Nothing else. Hamilton couldn't handle being away from home, and when he got injured he didn't know what to do. So he turned to drugs. And ruined his life.
5 years and 26 tattoos later, Hamilton made a comeback with the Cincinnati Reds and hit his first major league home run.
There's a great Washington Post article from a couple months AGO about him and about how he usually goes EVERYwhere with someone (his kids are home schooled so his wife can travel with him), and he very rarely carries any money.
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That was a damn good article...it read just like an episode of Real Sports.
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