Baseball drug taker dies

14 April 2012

Ken Caminiti, a former National Baseball League most valuable player who in 2002 admitted he used steroids, has died in New York at the age of 41.

Caminiti spent most of his career playing for the Houston Astros but his best season was 1996 while with the San Diego Padres.

His last few years were blighted by alcoholism and drug problems, including an arrest for cocaine possession in 2001.

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