Jason Alan Grimsley was born on August 7,1967 and is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for seven teams during a 15-year career.
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17 Facts About Jason Grimsley
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Jason Grimsley was a member of both the 1999 and 2000 World Series champion New York Yankees.
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Jason Grimsley was selected 10th round by the Philadelphia Phillies of the 1985 June amateur Baseball draft.
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Jason Grimsley began his career in 1989 and pitched very poorly, surrendering 13 runs in 18.
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Jason Grimsley spent the entire 1992 season in the minors and on March 30,1993 he was released by Houston and signed with the Cleveland Indians.
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Jason Grimsley is known for his leading role in the 1994 Bat Burglary involving Albert Belle and an allegedly corked bat that was taken away by umpires for examination by the league.
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Jason Grimsley was the player who crawled through a Comiskey Park air conditioning duct to reach the room where the confiscated bat had been secured.
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Jason Grimsley took the corked bat and replaced it with a clean bat.
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Jason Grimsley signed with the Tigers on January 17,1997, but was released following spring training.
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Jason Grimsley gave up the famous home run to Scott Hatteberg that gave the Oakland Athletics their 20th straight win in 2002, as immortalized in the film Moneyball.
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On June 6,2006, it was reported that Federal officials had raided Jason Grimsley's home looking for evidence that he was distributing human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing drugs.
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On June 12,2006, Jason Grimsley was suspended for 50 games for violating Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
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Jason Grimsley was the fourteenth Major League Baseball player to be suspended for use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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ESPN reported that court documents showed that Jason Grimsley had failed an MLB-administered drug test in 2003; he subsequently confessed to the use of human growth hormones, amphetamines and steroids.
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Jason Grimsley had told investigators that he got amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee.
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Jason Grimsley is married to his wife Dana, and they have three children, two sons, Hunter and John-John, and a daughter Rayne.
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Jason Grimsley was not home at the time, but his wife, daughter, and nanny were; they escaped unharmed.
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