Willie Mays Aikens: Safe at Home
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Channel: Williams College · 2012 · Education
Greg Jordan '92 talks with baseball legend Willie Mays Aikens about Jordan's new book, Willie Mays Aikens: Safe at Home, a biography described by the publisher as "an intimate portrait of a tortured player ... [that] culls interviews, letters, and the personal account of baseball legend Willie Mays Aikens. Touted from a young age as the next Reggie Jackson, Aikens' promising career quickly turned disastrous when he fell into drug abuse and was ultimately sentenced to the longest prison sentence ever given to a professional athlete in a drug case. Not only an exploration of baseball and culture in the 1980s, this book also delves into the United States justice and penal systems."
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