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Let’s cut to the chase, OK? Lenny Dykstra may have been a hard-nosed ballplayer who helped the Mets win the 1986 World Series. He made a fortune with his Southern California car wash chain. Thanks to CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, he was also known, at least briefly, as a stock market idiot savant. But Dykstra, who is serving a three-year prison sentence for grand theft auto and filing a false financial statement, is also a disgusting sociopath.

What else do you call a man who stole thousands of dollars from former employees, friends and relatives — and even his own mother? A thief who schemed to steal the signing bonus his son Cutter received from the Milwaukee Brewers? A predator who demanded oral sex from job applicants answering ads to be his personal assistant and sexually assaulted more than one woman?

Lenny Dykstra: The rise and fall of ‘Nails’ 

Read: Newsday

You Think Your Job Sucks? Try Working for Lenny Dykstra

It was every New York sports journalist’s dream come true: working for a Mets legend on his glossy new magazine, leaving behind the daily newspaper grind for the world of private jets, high finance, and $18 million estates. But as Kevin Coughlin found out, when your boss is Lenny Dykstra, you’d better be ready to get beaned (via

Read: GQ (April, 2009)

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Lenny Dykstra (4) celebrates with teammates Rick Aguilera, Bob Ojeda and Dwight Gooden after defeating the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 1986 World Series. The Mets are off to a perfect 4-0 start. Is another World Series in their future? (Ronald C. Modra /SI)

GALLERY: Remembering the 1986 World Series
CORCORAN: Five thoughts on a wild opening weekend

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Mets centerfielder Lenny Dykstra celebrates after hitting the game-winning home run in Game 3 of the 1986 ALCS against the Astros. The Mets would win the series in six games before beating Boston in the World Series. Dykstra turns 49 today. (Manny/Millan/SI) 

SI VAULT: NLCS featured memorable performances by Mets and Astros (10.20.86)
GALLERY: Remembering the 1986 World Series | Iconic Photos of the NY Mets

“He uncoiled like Dave Parker, exhorted like Carlton Fisk, was mobbed like Bobby Thomson.” — Mark Kreidler, Denver Post

This date in ‘86: Len Dykstra’s HR - ESPN New York

Lenny, Doc & Darryl

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Charlie Sheen paid $22,500 to bail former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Lenny “Nails” Dykstra out of jail, TMZ reported Tuesday.
CNBC’s Jane Wells reports that former MLB great and disgraced investor Lenny Dykstra has been arrested by the LAPD for bankruptcy fraud.

Dykstra was apparently selling items from his home that had already been repossessed by the bank.
Lenny Dykstra Arrested For Bankruptcy Fraud - BI
Imagine, Wilpon threw in with Bernie Madoff when investment wiz Lenny Dykstra was right there for him!