Lenny Dykstra
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| Born: February 10th, 1963 Santa Ana , United States 
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| Strikes: Left | Throws: Left |
| Debut in Major League Baseball | |
| May 3, 1985 for the New York Mets | |
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| May 18, 1996 with the Philadelphia Phillies | |
| MLB statistics (until end of career) |
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| Batting average | , 285 |
| Hits | 1,298 |
| RBI | 404 |
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Leonard Kyle "Lenny" Dykstra (born February 10, 1963 in Santa Ana , California ) is a retired American baseball player in Major League Baseball . The 1.78-meter center fielder with the nickname "Dude" and "Nails" won in 1986 with the New York Mets to the World Series .
Career
Dykstra was selected in the 1985 MLB Draft by the New York Mets in the 13th round. Although there were only low expectations of the rookie, he joined the regular team in the middle of the season and impressed with his 15 steals . With his talent, but also with his image as a party-partying enfant terrible who can always be found with hard alcohol, he was a good match for the Mets, who had two highly gifted but controversial stars in pitcher Dwight Gooden and rightfielder Darryl Strawberry . A year later, the Mets won their division by 21 wins and reached the 1986 World Series against the Boston Red Sox . In the third game, Dykstra beat the game-winning home run and contributed to the Mets' title.
In the following years, the Mets became more and more controversial. Although Dykstra steadily increased, stole around 30 bases per season and impressed above all with a high on-base percentage of around .370, he could not compensate for the increasingly blatant dropouts of the stars Gooden (cocaine consumption) and Strawberry (fights with teammates) . When the Mets wanted to make a fresh start in 1990, Dykstra was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies .
The initially offended Dykstra quickly recovered, became a star in the team around pitcher Curt Schilling and played the best season of his career to date in 1990, in which he achieved 192 hits (league record), 33 steals and an on-base percentage of .418. He was voted into the All-Star Game for the first of three times and finished ninth in the MLB Most Valuable Player Award election . In 1991 his car collided with a tree and Dykstra had to pause for a long time. At the time of the accident, his blood alcohol concentration was 1.7 ‰.
After he u. a. Because of these injuries in 1991 and 1992 he hardly got a chance, he led the Phillies in 1993 with the best season of his career (194 hits, 143 runs, 129 walks, .420 on-base percentage, winner of the Silver Slugger Award, second in the election for MVP) in the 1993 World Series . However , the Phillies lost 4-2 against the Toronto Blue Jays .
In the following years Dykstra steadily reduced due to renewed injury problems. The crowd favorite, he was voted into the All-Star Game twice (1994 and 1995), but ended his career in 1996.
Personal life and controversy
Dykstra was married to his wife Terri until 2009. He has three sons with her, including Cutter Dykstra , who is himself a professional baseball player.
Dykstra was accused of steroid doping in the 2007 Mitchell Report , an accusation he still dismisses to this day.
Dykstra filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009 after accumulating "between $ 10 million and $ 50 million in debt" on questionable deals and only owning $ 50,000. At the time, there were 24 indictments pending against him. Family and business partners described Dykstra as an unteachable narcissist ( he's a son of a b-tch, that bastard. We're mad at him. ), Who u. a. the family-owned car wash sold for $ 51 million, but his family (involved) fired and left mother and brothers without a penny; cheated and threatened his own mother for an additional $ 23,000 and his older brother for an additional $ 12,000; did not pay the pilots of his private jet; was sued by his best man for outstanding payments; littered his $ 18 million mansion; casually made racist and anti-gay jokes; coerced sexually female employees; sold overpriced financial tips that were almost identical to that of a befriended financial expert; and called him "perhaps the worst businessman since Bernard Madoff ". The GQ described him as an unsuspecting, irascible egoist and working with him as "hell on earth".
On March 5, 2012, Dykstra was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a court in Los Angeles for, among other things, car theft.
Web links
- Player information and statistics from Baseball Reference or Fangraphs or The Baseball Cube or Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
- In-depth article on the rise and fall of Lenny Dykstra , businessinsider.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dykstra's business: a bed of 'Nails' , ESPN.com
- ^ Dykstra files for Chapter 11 , ESPN.com.
- ↑ Ex-baseball star and bankrupt financial 'guru' Dykstra envisions a comeback , LA Times.com.
- ^ Dykstra Done In By Debts , forbes.com.
- ↑ Lenny Dykstra files 'difficult, necessary' bankruptcy , philly.com.
- ↑ The Myth of Lenny Dykstra completely unravels , deadspin.com.
- ↑ Lenny Dykstra Sexual Harassment Lawsuit: Oral Sex Allegedly Demanded , huffingtonpost.com.
- ↑ You Think Your Job Sucks? Try Working for Lenny Dykstra , GQ.com
- ↑ Conviction of Lenny Dykstra ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , huffingtonpost.com
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| SURNAME | Dykstra, Lenny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dykstra, Leonard Kyle (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American baseball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Ana , California , United States |