#363 - Public Housing Superstar - Vida Blue
Crime in Sports4 Juli 2023

#363 - Public Housing Superstar - Vida Blue

This week, we look at a legendary baseball player, who had skill, style, a really nasty fastball, and an appetite for cocaine, and driving drunk. He was plagued by playing for one of the cheapest owners in history, even qualifying for public housing, while having an MVP & Cy Young Award winning season, while this owner tried to get him to change his name to something more marketable. Life looked bright, but he couldn't get out of his own way. Did he ever turn it around? A crazy tale of 1970s living, even when it's the not the 1970s!!


Get paid in Cadillacs, be in the middle of a federal drug investigation, and have a very strange middle name with Vida Blue!!


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#298 - Off To See The Wizard - The Crookedness of Ken Clay

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#296 - Escalating In Awful - The Contemptibleness of Dana Stubblefield

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#294 - Long, Thick & Massive - The Theatricalness of "Neon" Leon Spinks

#294 - Long, Thick & Massive - The Theatricalness of "Neon" Leon Spinks

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#293 - Violence Starts At Home - The Acclaimedness of Bobby Hull

#293 - Violence Starts At Home - The Acclaimedness of Bobby Hull

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