Romello Sanders

Darryl Strawberry says a woman used to show up at the ballpark in a No. 18 Strawberry shirt, trying to flag him down. He was the biggest star on the Mets, married, with two kids. One night in St. Louis, he says, "it just happened." Months later she was pregnant, and she sued him. In the video below, Strawberry says his wife didn't hear it from him. "It came across the wire, and it was in the New York papers." The Post. The Times. "That was a bad conversation." It was 1989. Her name was Lisa Clayton. Blood tests proved the baby was his. He says it was always about money. So he never paid her directly. He put the money in a trust for the boy instead. A year later the Dodgers signed him for $20.25 million over five years, the richest deal in the National League. His marriage didn't survive. He and his first wife divorced in 1993. He is 64 now and has never met that son. He says he got the number from the boy's family, called, and never heard back. "I know I was wrong all this time, but now I'm trying to do right." "You can pick your sins," he says, "but you cannot pick your consequences." Does a check in a trust make him a father, or does the son owe him nothing?