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Final Comeback From Major League Baseballs Sam Favata Is It Worth The Gamble
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers out of high school, he grew up with Dodgers legend Maury Wills as a friend and mentor. Decades later, facing a possible 30-year federal sentence, Sam watched a lottery draw assign his judge. The judge had once been a Dodgers bat boy.The road to that courtroom was operatic. Sam hit a then-record .418 at Cal State Fullerton, then took an 87 mph fastball to the head in 1981 and needed surgery for three brain bleeds. He walked out of the hospital 10 days later. Then gambling caught up with him, along with a $30 million Ponzi scheme run through his mortgage…
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