For those of us who wore Rod Beck’s jersey and had our kids collect Rob Beck’s baseball cards (im looking at you Jim), here is the news on Beck’s vice:
Police found evidence of cocaine and drug paraphernalia at former major league pitcher Rod Beck’s home on the day he died.
A police report released Tuesday indicated evidence in several places at Beck’s house, including the bathroom and the master bedroom in which the 38-year-old Beck, a three-time All-Star who saved 286 games, was found dead at his northeast Phoenix home on June 23.
In a case on the bedroom floor, “four small canisters contained a white powdery residue of suspected cocaine. The larger canister contained a dried paste, commonly used to produce rock cocaine,” the report said. They also found a white powdery substance on the roll top desk.
Police also found a loaded semiautomatic handgun in a bag containing numerous glass bowl pipes and torch lighters.
“I strive to save games, play the hardest i can, give that 110% and do a ton of coke”
-Rod Beck, on life

Looking at that face, I just CAN’T imagine him with a “glass bowl pipe” in his hand stoned out of his mind. If only all crackheads were good at baseball.
By: Jim on August 1, 2007
at 3:10 pm
Until today, I didn’t even know he had died.
By: JT on January 9, 2008
at 6:57 pm