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\n NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Darryl Strawberry stood on the Citi Field grass as his No. 18 was being retired and addressed the New York Mets fans he had jilted 34 years earlier.\u201cI mean this from the bottom of my heart, I\u2019m so sorry for ever leaving you guys,\u201d Strawberry said, his voice slowing. \u201cI\u2019m truly, deeply sorry that I ever left you guys. I never played baseball in front of fans greater than you guys.\u201dFans of the long-suffering team, which hasn\u2019t won the World Series since Strawberry\u2019s 1986 Mets, responded with a loud ovation, the emotional highpoint of his 16-minute speech before Saturday\u2019s game against Arizona.Strawberry\u2019s No. 18 was cut into the center field grass and the home run apple was transformed into a home run strawberry. The public address system played the Beatles\u2019 \u201cStrawberry Fields Forever.\u201d Former teammates and family sat on folding chairs in the infield.<\/p>\n
He wasn\u2019t sure he would make it to this day. The Mets announced last August they would retire Strawberry\u2019s number this year along with Dwight Gooden\u2019s No. 16. Strawberry had a heart attack on March 11, a day before his 62nd birthday, and wound up in SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital in Lake St. Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I came out of the surgery, my heart was at 32%,\u201d he said. Strawberry, on the road as a minister for more than half each year, credited his wife Tracy for taking him to the hospital and saving his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was climbing up and I was fatigued,\u201d he said. \u201cCame back home for lunch and she was like, \u2018OK, that\u2019s it. We\u2019re out of here.\u2019 And I didn\u2019t want to go. I told her I would be OK, and she said, \u2018No, we\u2019re going.\u2019\u201dStrawberry was an eight-time All-Star, including seven during his time with the Mets from 1983-90. He hit .259 with 335 homers, 1,000 RBIs and 221 stolen bases in 17 seasons.Selected by the Mets first overall in the 1980 amateur draft, he failed to find a constant home following his departure from Shea Stadium. He played three seasons for the Los Angeles Dodgers, one for San Francisco and five for the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
His career would have been far greater had he not fallen for the temptation of alcohol and drugs surrounding baseball stars in the nightlife of 1980s New York. He said Mookie Wilson, among the teammates on hand, and the late Gary Carter were examples he should have followed.\u201cI wanted to be what they were, not just a guy playing baseball, putting the uniform on,\u201d Strawberry said during a pre-ceremony news conference. \u201cI wanted to be that kind of man. I just didn\u2019t have the guts to do what they were doing at the time that they were doing it, and it means a lot to me because they were drinking milk and I was drinking alcohol.\u201dStrawberry wore a blue suit with a dark blue tie, and a strawberry shake sat in front of him as part of a promotion. He addressed his decision to leave the Mets after the 1990 season and sign a five-year deal with his hometown Dodgers. He attributed the move to \u201ca broken relationship with the front office and them saying, well, that he needs to put up a good season.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, you can\u2019t tell that to a kid from the ghetto because that means nothing to us,\u201d he said. \u201cIt means I will show you and that\u2019s what I had to do in that free-agent year.\u201dStrawberry recalled he wore No. 8 in high school but it was unavailable when he arrived in New York in 1983 because of Ronn Reynolds. Strawberry wanted to keep an 8, so that\u2019s why he picked 18.\u201cThere was no reason to switch, \u2019cause had I switched, Carter came over, he would have have took it for me anyway,\u201d Strawberry said.Gooden, who spoke for three minutes when his number was retired on April 14, was alongside with Strawberry, as always.\u201cDoc was crazier than me,\u201d Strawberry recalled, a reference to his friend\u2019s sobriety struggles.Gooden\u2018s response to that was: \u201cI don\u2019t know about that. I learned from him,\u201d he said with a chuckle.Mets owner Steve Cohen has pushed for the team to pay more attention to its past since he bought the franchise before the 2021 season. David Wright\u2019s No. 5 seems likely at some future time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a reminder of those moments in Mets history and the people involved that give you a sort of hope for the future that it\u2019s possible,\u201d Cohen said.Profusely thankful for making it to this day, Strawberry said his upbringing led to his life\u2019s struggles.\u201cComing from a broken situation kept me broken inside as a person, and I could never fulfill the happiness of what I was doing for myself when I was being successful,\u201d he said. \u201cI came from a dysfunctional home, and my father was a raging alcoholic and he said I would never amount to anything.\u201d\u201cI don\u2019t regret what happened to me because it made me the man that I am today and I\u2019m thankful for every challenge that I had to face and every circumstance I had to go through,\u201d he added, \u201cbecause it just just kept me moving forward to try to be a better man than what my father was, and I think I made it. I think I conquered that.\u201d___AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n
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