NEW YORK - Steve Howe, the relief pitcher whose promising career was derailed by cocaine and alcohol abuse, died Friday when his pickup truck rolled over in Coachella, Calif. He was 48.
Howe was killed at 5:55 a.m. PDT, said Dalyn Backes of the Riverside County coroner’s office. The accident occurred about 130 miles east of Los Angeles.
Howe was the 1980 NL Rookie of the Year with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and helped them win the World Series the next year.
CHICAGO - At age 40, a fitter and trimmer Greg Maddux pitched his way into new territory. He’s 5-0 for the first time in a long and distinguished career that will some day end in Cooperstown.
Actually, Maddux did more in the offseason with a conditioning program that has put him in better shape. With Carlos Zambrano winless this season and Kerry Wood and Mark Prior on the disabled list again, Maddux has carried the Cubs the first three weeks.
Maddux, of course, says it’s the other way around, typically shrugging off praise.
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