Lenny Dykstra Reveals How PED's Changed His Career In New Book
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Former Phillie Lenny Dykstra discussed his new book, House of Nails, about his baseball career and turbulent life since leaving the game with Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.
Dykstra recounted how he began taking performance enhancing drugs and the impact they had on his abilities.
"I went to a library and did some research, found out about Ben Johnson's guy and then got a doctor and started telling him I got a chance to support my family for a long time and make millions of dollars, but I have a problem. That problem is I can't say physically strong enough to last six months. I'm a small guy. So, he prescribed me a drug called Deca Durabolin and I went to Rite Aid and filled it and went back to his office. He showed me how to put a harpoon in my @**. The next thing you know, I show up in 1990, hitting .400 in June, on the cover of Sports Illustrated, go to the All-Star game and win lead the league in hits."
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He also detailed the troubles he had putting the book together, eventually deciding to write the entire thing himself.
"I hired a ghost writer because that's what they told me to do and he's supposed to be a good one and I would get back and I just couldn't take it. I don't think God himself couldn't have been my ghost writer. I did what I always do and I called up my editor and I said I'm firing the ghost writer and I'm going to write this thing myself and I'm sure they laughed but, at the end of the day, there was blood on the keyboard every night. I gritted it out and put a book together that is a book unlike any other. It takes you on a roller coaster ride that you could only imagine. It seems so unreal."
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