Former Mets Bat Boy Says He Gave Players Steroids

New York Times ^ | April 28, 2007 | Juliet Macur

[jdm]

A former New York Mets bat boy pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to distributing performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of former and current Major League Baseball players and their affiliates for a decade.

In a plea agreement filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, Kirk Radomski, 37, who worked as an equipment manager and clubhouse assistant for the Mets from 1985-95, admitted to selling banned drugs, including anabolic steroids, amphetamines and human growth hormone from 1995 through 2005. He also laundered the money from those transactions. Those two felony charges carry sentences of up to 25 years in prison and a maximum $500,000 in fines.

None of his clients were named in the plea agreement, and players names were also redacted from a search warrant affidavit dated Dec. 13, 2005, which was used for a federal raid on Radomski’s New York home.

“During my past employment in Major League Baseball I developed contacts with Major League Baseball players throughout the country to whom I subsequently distributed anabolic steroids and athletic performance-enhancing drugs,” Radomski said in his plea. “I had personal contact with some of my baseball drug clients, but consulted and conducted drug transactions with others over the telephone and mail.”

[jdm]

Wow, that was fast! :O) Sorry, I’ll put in chat next time...

[cripplecreek]

They need to pay their bat boys better so they don’t have to moonlight as pharmacists.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"They need to pay their bat boys better so they don’t have to moonlight as pharmacists."

Or tabloid superheroes!