I’ve always generally liked Joyner. I have a collection of 1987 Angels autographs a friend of the family got for me when I was a kid. They were visiting the Kingdome, and he had clubhouse access for some reason; don’t recall why. He came back with over twenty autos, including Joyner and an eerie psycho-scribble from a post-1986 ALCS (and of course pre-suicide) Donnie Moore.

It is interesting that Joyner tried PEDs at one point, even if they didn’t “take”. I see an odd dichotomy between Mormon teetotalism with things like alcohol, caffeine, or tobacco on the one hand, and the rise of the wild-west dietary supplement racket, often centered out of Utah, ot the other.

Sen. Orrin Hatch’s Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) created a free-for-all in supplements, both legitimate and shady, that helped enable the steroids era that even Wally apparently dabbled in.

I was lucky enough to get one of his cracked bats and have him sign it. It holds a special place in my collection. He may never get in the baseball hall of fame, but if they ever start a hall of fame for great people, he is in on the first ballot.