Willie Mays Aikens: Safe at Home

By Greg Jordan ’92. Triumph Books, 2012. A life portrait of Aikens, who established himself as a top slugger before his promising career was derailed by cocaine use. Aikens was sentenced in 1994 to the longest prison sentence ever given to a professional athlete in a drug case. He was released in 2008 after changes were made to federal drug laws. The author examines not only baseball culture in the 1980s but also the United States penal system.