Documents: Clinton Administration Was Watching Yankees, Strawberry

WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) — Newly-released documents show that President Bill Clinton’s administration was watching how the Yankees handled troubled slugger Darryl Strawberry back in the 1990s.

In a June 1995 memo to Clinton, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel – now mayor of Chicago – shed light on the administration’s interest in the Yankees’ treatment of the slugger, who had substance abuse problems during his baseball career.

The memo said that White House drug policy chief Lee Brown had arranged a meeting with Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

“Our goal is to set down a series of demands at this meeting, such as: (1) Strawberry doing community service with young people, (2) the Yankee franchise setting up a franchise-wide standard, and (3) have the Yankees contribute to a drug program recommended by Director Brown,” Emanuel wrote.

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