Originally Published: March 06, 2008

SEEKING
REDEMPTION

DARRYL
STRAWBERRY
FINDS IT

THE NEW DARRYL STRAWBERRY

Darryl Strawberry has been

up and down up and down

up and down

This Spring he is UP again. As a springtime instructor with the Mets. A  FULL time instructor FULL time with the Mets for the first time since  1990. When  Strawberry last played for the Queens based franchise. Since then he  has been up and down up and down. With a faltering career then cancer  and drugs and all kinds of problems.

No doubt the highlight of Strawberry's entire career indeed his life  was the Season of 1986 when he ws the SuperStar who propelled the New  York Mets to their last World Series. Long ago and far away and the  biggest Ticker Tape Parade in modern New York City annals bigger than  any the more frequent New York Yankees can boast.

Since his Baseball Days Darryl has spent a year in prison following a  cocaine possession conviction and violating parole. A number of broken  marriages. He has been convicted of Tax Evasion. And on top of that  Colon Cancer twice. For a long while you could have called Darryl  Strawberry a Dead Man Walking. Now he is a Survivor at 46.

And looking very good and fit

some say he looks like

he could play !

And once spring training ENDS he will switch to yet another new role New York Mets AMBASSADOR to the World. Well at least the Mets World in and around New  York City. Making goodwill appearances for the team and whatever else  makes sense.

Beyond the Mets not surprising he has his own Foundation named of  course The Darryl Strawberry Foundation. The purpose to assist kids  with Autism. As Darryl puts it, "I never  realized what children with autism went through until I went in  there and saw it. It touched me. It's made a big  difference in who I am and how I see things.

That is really all there is

we can't make this into

more of a Story then it

is Good Luck Darryl

THE OLD STRAWBERRY