blems with his personal life seemed to have surfaced around 1990. That year he was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and was allegedly going to use the weapon on his wife. That same year, he was an all-star player. In 1993 he was arrested for hitting his girlfriend while helping the L.A. Dodgers score 675 runs that season. 1995 was also an interesting year for Strawberry. In that year alone he was charged with failing to pay child support, owed $350,000 in back taxes which confined him for six months in his home (except for baseball games of course!), and still played with the Yankees to help them finish 2nd in the American League Eastern Division. Just four years later in 1999 he was arrested and put on eighteen months probation for drug and solicitation charges. He was also suspended that year from baseball, but was allowed to participate in postseason batting. Just this past October (2000), Strawberry was put under house arrest for 2 years for driving under the influence and leaving the scene of the accident. While he was under house arrest he left his home without permission, and when he was found, he tested positive for cocaine. He was arrested for that incident.Michael Irvin is another athlete who had great statistics and was looked up to by Dallas Cowboy fans. In his career he had 65 receiving touchdowns and had more than 11,500 receiving yards. Why was he only suspended for five games when he was found guilty of cocaine possession? The first time found with cocaine, Irvin was suspended for five games, and the second time he was also suspended five. Did Irvin not learn his lesson the first time? In July of 1995 Michael Irvin was found guilty of cocaine possession and only received a five game suspension. Just a year later Irvin was found in a hotel room with ten grams of cocaine, one ounce of marijuana and other drug paraphernalia. Prostitution was also suspected in the hotel room. Irvin received four yea...
