Drinking, Screwing, Defying--The World According To David Wells

July, 1999

For 12 years, David Wells has been a stranger in the strangest of lands--a ballplayer with a walrus' body and an outlaw biker's mentality trying to fit into the game's conservative conventions and protocols. He is nicknamed Boomer for the sonic concussion he creates when he collides with authority. It came as no surprise when he reacted negatively to his new status as the Blue Jays' replacement for Roger Clemens. (Clemens had demanded to be traded to a winner, and he was--to the New York Yankees...