Lenny Dykstra was a three-time All-Star and won a World Series championship as a member of the 1986 Mets.
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58 Facts About Lenny Dykstra
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Lenny Dykstra attended Garden Grove High School in Orange County, California.
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Lenny Dykstra recorded a hit in all 27 games of his senior season.
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Lenny Dykstra was named all-league, all-county, and all-state both his junior and season seasons.
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Lenny Dykstra was named 3-A co-player of the year for his 1981 campaign.
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Lenny Dykstra played in the Orange County All-Star baseball game where he reached base all eight times he came to bat earning five hits, a walk, and reaching base on two errors.
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Lenny Dykstra played football where he was named 2nd team all-county and team MVP as a defensive back.
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Lenny Dykstra was originally committed to play baseball at Arizona State University for Jim Brock but said he would sign to play professionally if drafted high enough.
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Lenny Dykstra was consequently named the Carolina League's MVP, and soon emerged as one of the Mets' prized prospects.
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In 1985 Lenny Dykstra, deemed ready for the major leagues, was promoted to the Mets when the team's starting center fielder, Mookie Wilson, was placed on the disabled list.
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The following season, Lenny Dykstra was intended to be platooned in center field with Wilson, but took over the position as outright starter and leadoff hitter when Wilson suffered a severe eye injury during spring training.
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Lenny Dykstra hit a walk-off home run in Game 3, which is considered one of the biggest hits in Mets franchise history and of Lenny Dykstra's career.
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Lenny Dykstra was known for his trademark cheek full of tobacco and hard-nosed play.
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Lenny Dykstra suffered fractured ribs, a broken cheekbone and a fractured collarbone, and lost two months of playing time.
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Lenny Dykstra played in just 145 of 324 possible games for the Phils in 1991 and 1992.
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Lenny Dykstra played in 161 games, setting a then major league record with 773 plate appearances.
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Lenny Dykstra led the Phillies into the World Series, which they lost to the defending World Series champion Toronto Blue Jays in six games.
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In October 2015, Lenny Dykstra told Colin Cowherd that beginning in 1993, he paid a team of private investigators $500,000 to dig up dirt on MLB umpires.
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Lenny Dykstra used the information, he said, to leverage a more favorable strike zone during games.
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Lenny Dykstra said it was not a coincidence that he led the Majors in walks in 1993, going from 40 in 392 plate appearances in 1992 to 129 in 773 at-bats the following year.
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Lenny Dykstra last played in 1996, although he launched one final comeback attempt in spring training of 1998 before retiring at the age of 35.
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Lenny Dykstra first ran a car wash in Simi Valley, California but sold it in 2007.
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The lawsuit, filed by former business partner Lindsay Jones, alleged that Lenny Dykstra used steroids and told Jones to place bets on Phillies games in 1993, when Lenny Dykstra was on that pennant-winning team.
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Lenny Dykstra denied those allegations, but others arose when he was cited in retrospect as a steroid-user during his playing career.
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Lenny Dykstra appeared on Fox News Channel's The Cost of Freedom business show, and his stock-picking skills were even mentioned by Jim Cramer, who had Dykstra write an investing column for TheStreet.
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Lenny Dykstra then purchased NHL superstar Wayne Gretzky's $17 million estate hoping to flip it but was unsuccessful.
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In 2002, Lenny Dykstra made another much-anticipated return to New York after being elected to the Mets' 40th Anniversary All-Amazin' Team.
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Lenny Dykstra returned to Shea in 2006 for the Mets' 20th-anniversary celebration of their 1986 World Championship.
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Lenny Dykstra then voiced a greater desire to get back into baseball and his name surfaced as a possible Mets coach or even manager.
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Lenny Dykstra served as part-time instructor at the Mets' spring training camp in Port St Lucie.
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Lenny Dykstra came back to Flushing for the last time on September 28,2008 for the Farewell to Shea Stadium ceremony held after the final game of that season.
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On June 28,2016, Lenny Dykstra released an autobiography titled House of Nails: A Memoir of Life on the Edge.
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On July 27,2016, Lenny Dykstra appeared on Larry King Now to discuss his book, his MLB career, his use of steroids, and his close friendship with Charlie Sheen.
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Lenny Dykstra was named in the Mitchell Report on steroid use in Major League Baseball on December 13,2007.
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Lenny Dykstra did not agree to meet with the Mitchell investigators to discuss the allegations.
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In Randall Lane's book The Zeroes, Lenny Dykstra admitted in his hotel room to Lane, editor of Trader Monthly, that he used steroids to perform better than those he felt might replace him; otherwise, his $25 million would be "on the line".
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In September 2008, Lenny Dykstra began a high-end jet charter company and magazine marketed to professional athletes known as the Player's Club, LLC The magazine was part of a business plan to offer financial advice to professional athletes, according to a profile article in The New Yorker magazine, Lenny Dykstra had a website entitled "Nails Investments" to impart information about his investment ideas.
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Lenny Dykstra claimed to be a victim of mortgage fraud, after he lost the house purchased for $17.
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In 1991, Lenny Dykstra crashed his red Mercedes-Benz SL 500 into a tree on Darby-Paoli Road in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, after attending the bachelor party of Phillies teammate John Kruk.
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Lenny Dykstra suffered broken ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken facial bone, in addition to second-degree burns on his left arm and lower back.
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Lenny Dykstra was accused of vandalizing the properties, and not maintaining homeowners' insurance on them, and the court assigned a trustee to manage them.
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In December 2010, Lenny Dykstra was accused of hiring a female escort, and then writing her a bad $1,000 check: adult entertainment star and escort Monica Foster claimed he had hired her on December 13,2010, and then wrote her a worthless check.
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Lenny Dykstra faced up to five years in federal prison if convicted.
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Federal prosecutors contended that after filing for bankruptcy Lenny Dykstra hid, sold, or destroyed more than $400,000 worth of items from the $18.
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In May 2011, Lenny Dykstra was sentenced to house arrest after his bankruptcy fraud indictment.
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On June 13,2011, Lenny Dykstra appeared in Federal bankruptcy court and pleaded not guilty to 13 charges.
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Lenny Dykstra faced up to 80 years in prison if convicted of all charges relating to embezzlement, obstruction of justice, bankruptcy fraud, making false statements to bankruptcy court, and concealing property from the bankruptcy court.
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On June 6,2011, Lenny Dykstra was arrested and charged with 25 misdemeanor and felony counts of grand theft auto, identity theft, filing false financial statements and possession of cocaine, ecstasy and the human growth hormone known as Somatropin.
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Lenny Dykstra first pleaded not guilty to the charges, but later changed his plea to no contest to grand theft auto and providing false financial statements in exchange for dropping the drug charges.
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On July 13,2012, Lenny Dykstra pleaded guilty in federal court to three felonies: one count each of bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets, and money laundering.
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Lenny Dykstra admitted to hiding, selling, or destroying over $400,000 worth of items that were supposed to be part of his bankruptcy filing.
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Lenny Dykstra was released from the federal penitentiary in Victorville, California, in June 2013 after serving six and a half months of his sentence for the bankruptcy fraud and money laundering charges, which ran concurrently with the grand theft auto and false financial statements charges.
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Lenny Dykstra finished his probation in April 2014, and had undergone weekly drug testing.
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On May 23,2018, Lenny Dykstra was arrested after uttering terroristic threats and for possession of drugs.
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Lenny Dykstra allegedly held a gun to his Uber driver after the driver refused to change destinations.
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On October 10,2018, Lenny Dykstra was indicted by a New Jersey grand jury for cocaine and methamphetamine possession, and making terroristic threats.
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