Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

10 years ago…

November 17, 1996 – Former major league baseball player Jose “Chico” Lind is charged with driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident on Interstate 75 north of Interstate 4 in Hillsborough County. Lind, according to one witness, was naked from the waist down with only a highway patrolman’s rain slicker covering him up at the time of his arrest. Police officers also found a gram of co caine and seven cans of beer in his car. Lind’s career spanned eight seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays, the highlight coming in 1992 when he won a Gold Glove Award as a second baseman with the Pirates.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

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