Baseball's biggest miscreants

Unfortunately, every dude on this list probably has dozens of these kind of stories on their resumes. It sucks that getting in your car and chasing some kids through the neighborhood can tarnish that. I mean, who hasn't done that?

 

I forgot about Ugueth Urtain Urbina. I'm sure I'm not alone, though.

 

How about the Young brothers, Dmitri and Delmon?

 

Not a bad choice, if you combine their transgressions.

But I still think almost beating a man to death, plus gambling on baseball, gives Cobb the nod.

 

I saw this on his Wikipedia entry and it seems too good to be true, but too odd to be completely made up:

"A provision in Waddell's contract-- inserted at his catcher's insistence-- prohibited Waddell from eating crackers in bed. (Players shared beds on road trips.)"

 

If I had included the litany of drug users from the 80s, this would have been a VERY long list. Same thing with the alchies from every era. The players I was targeting are either malicious and/or engage in reckless, selfish behavior without caring about the consequences. Plus, Bonds is just a plain old jerk. He's Ted Williams with a better tan & on the juice.

As far as the Young brothers, I tried to diversify the choices, otherwise I'd incur the wrath of sportsbra. Urbina's case was, sadly, a one-shot deal. I don't recall a prior history of violence and/or aberrant behavior.

 

And there were extenuating circumstances with Urbina, IIRC. His mother had been kidnapped and no one knew where she was.

I can't remember tho if that had anything to do with why he's sitting in prison right now. It may have contributed or it may have been one incident right after another.

 

Point taken.

Honorable mentions go to Julio Lugo and Wil Cordero.

 

I can't remember who put it up, but I remember from the Indians clubhouse a sign of Albert Belle's locker that read "This year, I promise to be calm, cool and collected" and then had a crushed can of shaving cream taped to it. That's always the first thing that comes to mind when I think of him. Well, that and 50 home runs / 50 doubles.

 

I think of cork. And Joey.