Thirty years after their World Series title, the 1986 New York Mets still resonate as they were known as much for their on-field success as their off-field excess.
Ron Darling, who was the Mets' starting pitcher in Game 7 of the World Series, details in his new book "Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life" how drugs and alcohol even helped fuel the team during games.
In an excerpt that appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Darling explains that players would take amphetamines before games and sometimes resort to alcohol to re-trigger the effects of the amphetamines.