The fate of a Philadelphia caterer, characterized...

The fate of a Philadelphia caterer, characterized by a federal prosecutor as “a traveling salesman of cocaine,” was handed to a jury of nine women and three men who must decide if he dealt drugs to major league baseball players on 14 occasions.

Curtis Strong, 39, briefly the clubhouse cook for the Philadelphia Phillies, had “the best clientele you could have, major league baseball players with the time and money to use drugs,” U.S. Atty. J. Alan Johnson said.