Darryl Strawberry
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About
8-time MLB All-Star slugger who won a World Series Championship with the New York Mets in 1986, then three more with the New York Yankees in 1996, 1998, and 1999. He led the National League in home runs in 1988 with 39 for the Mets.
Before Fame
His brother and he were both drafted in the same year.
Trivia
He was named 1983 NL Rookie of the Year after hitting 26 home runs and tallying 74 RBIs. His baseball fame has led him to garner more than 160,000 followers on Instagram.
Family Life
He married Charisse Simons in 1993, the same year he got divorced from Lisa Watkins. He then divorced Watkins in 2006, the same year he married Tracy Boulware. He has four children named DJ, Jade, Jordan, and Jewel. DJ played college basketball at Maryland and was a second-round pick of the NBA's Phoenix Suns in 2007.
Associated With
He played on the 1986 New York Mets, the team that won a World Series in part due to an infamous error by Boston Red Sox first baseman, Bill Buckner.
