Josh Hamilton apologizes for bar incident, photos
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Josh Hamilton, who overcame a widely publicized four-year struggle with drug and alcohol addiction to stay in big league baseball, apologized Saturday after confirming photos posted on the Internet that showed him partying with three women at a Tempe, Ariz., bar in January.
Hamilton, who has three daughters with his wife, Katie, said, “Obviously she’s disappointed and ... I’m very embarrassed for her, the organization, for my children.”
Jon Daniels said Saturday that no disciplinary action was planned.
“The first thing I did was apologize to them, because they trusted me and had faith in me and I let them down at that point,” Hamilton told reporters in the Texas clubhouse at Angel Stadium in Anaheim as several of his Rangers teammates looked on. “They accepted my apology.”
Hamilton and Daniels also noted that Hamilton is tested for substances banned by Major League Baseball three times a week, and was in Saturday’s lineup for the Rangers’ game against the Angels.
Daniels said, “My first reaction in January was concern; here’s a guy who’s obviously dealt with substance abuse at a pretty significant level.”
But he said it was a positive sign that “immediately he came forward and was honest.”
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-- Jim Peltz