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Article: Sox did homework on Hoyt
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 5, 1987
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Why did White Sox board chairman Jerry Reinsdorf approve - in
fact, promote - the signing of LaMarr Hoyt? Why would he take a
chance on a player labeled a drug offender?
Because Reinsdorf read the 46-page opinion of arbitrator George
Nicolau, who ripped into the Padres and the rehabilitation institute
where Hoyt was housed and then pardoned him from a year's baseball
banishment.
Nicolau's opinion is that Hoyt was not a drug offender, as such.
Here are the facts, gleaned from his 46 pages:
Hoyt has a sleep disorder called intractable insomnia, which
originally got him started taking sleep inducers.
When Hoyt took a physical exam before the 1986 season, he told
doctors he was taking ...