Where are they now?? Former New York Yankees pitching prospect Brien Taylor has been indicted on three counts of distributing crack cocaine.

5teamparlay · Jun 19, 2012

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Brien Taylor indicted on 3 counts
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Former New York Yankees pitching prospect Brien Taylor has been indicted on three counts of distributing crack cocaine.
Taylor, the No. 1 overall draft selection in 1991, was indicted Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in North Carolina.
The 40-year-old Taylor was arrested on March 2 after selling large quantities of cocaine and crack cocaine to an undercover narcotics agent over a span of several months.
Taylor got a then-record $1.55 million signing bonus from the Yankees. But after excelling at Double-A in 1993, he got into a fight that winter and injured his pitching shoulder. He was never the same after major surgery.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report

CHOPTALK · Jun 19, 2012

I bought 100 of his rookie cards at 8 bucks a piece back when that was huge money thinking it would make me rich one day.
Did the same thing with Todd Van Poppel around that same time.

5teamparlay · Jun 20, 2012

CHOPTALK said:
I bought 100 of his rookie cards at 8 bucks a piece back when that was huge money thinking it would make me rich one day.
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lol

GilRenard · Jun 20, 2012

CHOPTALK said:
I bought 100 of his rookie cards at 8 bucks a piece back when that was huge money thinking it would make me rich one day.
Did the same thing with Todd Van Poppel around that same time.

Don't feel bad.. I quit collecting a bit before Taylor. One of my main rookie 'investments' was Barry Bonds. I have a binder full of Bonds cards from 86-89 stored away in the closet with about 300 of them rookies. Ironically, those aren't worth much more than the Taylors. Should have sold them about 10 years ago.

gavin · Jun 20, 2012

remember the griffey upper deck donrus card ...i sold it on ebay for 7 bucks. I thought it would net me at least a vacation when i was younger

GilRenard · Jun 20, 2012

gavin said:
remember the griffey upper deck donrus card ...i sold it on ebay for 7 bucks. I thought it would net me at least a vacation when i was younger

The Upper Deck was getting pretty good money when I started getting out of cards around '90 or so. I think that I took them to a card shop and got 100 bucks total for four of them. That sounds like a good price now, but I was kicking myself for awhile during the HR chases in the late 90's, because I think they peaked out and were pulling almost 100 a piece. Somebody told me one time that Upper Deck employees were printing those Griffey rookies by the sheet for years. Not sure if that's true or not.

Doug · Jun 20, 2012

Gil Renard said:
The Upper Deck was getting pretty good money when I started getting out of cards around '90 or so. I think that I took them to a card shop and got 100 bucks total for four of them. That sounds like a good price now, but I was kicking myself for awhile during the HR chases in the late 90's, because I think they peaked out and were pulling almost 100 a piece. Somebody told me one time that Upper Deck employees were printing those Griffey rookies by the sheet for years. Not sure if that's true or not.

Clearly a possibility....it's not like you'd have the security levels of the US mint, or BEP ( currency and stamp printing). It would be pretty easy for a card printer to fudge some stuff, IMO !