Bernie Carbo was willing to pay $2,000 for hit men to break the arms of his former Cardinals teammate Keith Hernandez.”I knew some people, and I had $2,000, and I asked them to break his arms,” Carbo tells ESPN's Outside the Lines in a segment to air Sunday at 9 a.m. ET.
Hernandez had testified in Pittsburgh on Sept. 6, 1985 that it was Carbo who introduced him to cocaine.
Carbo, famous for hitting the three-run homer for Boston in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series that led to Cartonl Fisk's game-winning blast, said he was high on drugs at the time.
Carbo tells Mark Sch
warz: “I was addicted to the point where I couldn't play without the drugs. … Nobody (in a typical clubhouse) did as many drugs as I did.
“I was taking mescaline. I was taking cocaine. Crystal meth. Smoking dope and taking pills and drinking. I felt that even though I hit this home run and I reached a place in my life that I dreamed about, it didn't bring me any happiness.”
Now, 62, Carbo says he's been clean for 16 years. The Boston Globe's Stan Grossfeld penned an expansive piece on Carbo last month. Carbo also says he would apologize to Hernandez for introducing him to cocaine.
Why didn't Carbo's plans to break Hernandez's arms go through?
“(The hitmen) said, ''We'll do it in two or three years if you want it done, but we're not going to do it today, Bernie. If we went and broke his legs today, or broke his arms, you don't think they would understand that you are the one that had it done?' ”
