A new book by Jason Grimsley, who played 15 seasons with seven teams, tells his harrowing story of an alcohol and drug addiction and suicide attempt, followed by a journey toward redemption, BNightengale writes.
Grimsley, 55, talks about his life, his drug and alcohol rehabs, the psych wards, his performance-enhancing drug use, and his journey toward redemption in his book,"Cross Stitched: One Man"s Journey from Ruin to Restoration."
"But now that I look back, I want to point to the Lord and his grace and his salvation. There's no reason I should be alive today. I should have died.Grimsley, who pitched for seven teams over 15 years, appeared in 552 games, and won back-to-back World Series championships with the New York Yankees, spoke with USA TODAY Sports for nearly 1½ hours talking about his life.
"There were a lot of things I regret in my life," Grimsley says quietly,"but wasn’t one of them. Would I change anything? Other than hurt those close to me, not a thing. I don't have any ill will for what I did. It was part of my story. It's a lot of guys' stories. It is what it is. Grimsley spoke to federal agents without an attorney for two hours that April day in 2006, and for the next two months the feds kept asking him for names. They wanted the names of players.
"It wasn't just bad guys, it could have been anybody that had the feds knock their doors down. It's not something you want to happen to you, but you had to live with it.Grimsley and his family moved back to Kansas City for three years. He purchased a couple of buildings, opened a baseball facility, and then moved permanently to Hockley, Texas in 2009.
His marriage deteriorated. He stopped being around his three children. He abandoned his friends. And then came that afternoon in August 2015 when he decided to end the pain. "I was like, 'What? Whoa!'" Affeldt said."It was so dramatic and traumatic. It was such a random voicemail, a tone in his voice that I wasn't used to hearing. Jason would never give up, at any time, any pitch, in any game. He never backed down from anything.
Grimsley’s kids, now 28, 26 and 22 years old, told him how much he meant in their lives, and Dana vowed she would never leave him."Those demons, they don't discriminate," Grimsley says."It's all the same pattern. It's the same road, oftentimes the expressway, that everybody is on.
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