Ricky Stone

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1975)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Ricky Stone | image = Ricky-Stone-2008.jpg | position = Pitcher | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|2|28}} | birth_place = Hamilton, Ohio, U.S. | bats = Right | throws = Right |debutleague = MLB | debutdate = September 21 | debutyear = 2001 | debutteam = Houston Astros |finalleague = MLB | finaldate = July 21 | finalyear = 2007 | finalteam = Cincinnati Reds |statleague = MLB | stat1label = Win–loss record | stat1value = 11–9 | stat2label = Earned run average | stat2value = 4.68 | stat3label = Strikeouts | stat3value = 170 |stat2league = CPBL | stat21label = Win–loss record | stat21value = 1–1 | stat22label = Earned run average | stat22value = 3.00 | stat23label = Strikeouts | stat23value = 14 | teams = *Houston Astros ({{mlby|2001}}–{{mlby|2004}}) *San Diego Padres ({{mlby|2004}}) *Cincinnati Reds ({{mlby|2005}}, {{mlby|2007}}) *Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions ({{by|2008}}) }} '''Ricky L. Stone''' (born February 28, 1975) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher.

== Career == He attended Hamilton High School and was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 4th round of the 1994 amateur draft.

According to then-Albuquerque Dukes strength and conditioning coach Todd Seyler, in July 1999, he, Stone, Matt Herges, Paul Lo Duca, Mike Judd and Jeff Williams met at Stone's apartment to inject themselves with steroids. He claimed he observed Stone inject himself in the thigh with Deca-Durabolin. Seyler believed they continued to use steroids in their training. Stone declined to talk to ''Mitchell Report'' investigators about the allegations.<ref name="mr">{{cite report |last=Mitchell |first=George |author-link=George J. Mitchell |date=December 13, 2007 |title=Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball |url=https://files.mlb.com/mitchrpt.pdf |publisher=Office of the Commissioner of Baseball |pages=230–32 |docket= |access-date=August 2, 2024 |quote=Seyler never observed these players use steroids after the first occasion, but he spoke with them frequently about the subject until all but one of the players were promoted to the Dodgers later during the 1999 season. Based on his conversations with them, Seyler believed that all of the players continued to use steroids while training and that they completed their six-week cycles.}}</ref>

In 2008, Stone pitched for the Uni-President Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League.

Stone was at a Reds-Astros game in August {{mlby|2008}} and later suffered a grand mal seizure at his home. His wife's CPR may have saved his life. On August 8, 2008, Stone was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He had surgery to remove the tumor and to perform a biopsy on the mass. It was confirmed that the tumor was indeed malignant.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081122&content_id=3689295&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou |title=Auction set up to assist Ricky Stone |accessdate=2008-12-14 |author=Alyson Footer |authorlink=MLB.com |date=2008-11-22 |work=MLB.com}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=s/stoneri01|brm=stone-003ric}} *http://www.oxfordpress.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/local/2008/08/09/hjn081008stoneweb.html

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