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All-Tabloid Yankees and Mets teams

Be it on the field, page one of the tabloids or a jail cell, New York has had a long line of baseball stars who can't seem to stay out of trouble or the headlines.

The reigning king of the gossip pages is Alex Rodriguez, who's mired in a nasty divorce. But whether it's the late Billy Martin's fisticuffs with fans or Darryl Strawberry's drug use, it seems New York baseball stars seems to court...

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