Though former Kansas City Star reporter Kent Babb broke the news 10 years ago, I must confess I had never heard the story before. If I hadn’t heard it, I figure that a lot of other Kansas City Royals fans don’t know the tale.
Thus, I think it’s the perfect story to tell on an off day.
According to Babb, Lonnie Smith told him that he believed that then-Royals GM John Schuerholz never believed that Smith had given up on drugs after spending 30 days in a rehab clinic in 1983 (Smith was then with the St.